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Should Cities and Counties Face Punishment For Not Allowing New Housing?

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Many parts of California are experiencing housing shortages and a serious lack of affordable housing. We queried California voters on whether cities and counties should face punishment for holding back on rezoning properties suitable for housing to allow for more densely populated development. While we have seen pushback against new housing by residents in communities that […]

CA Voters: DMV like any other government bureaucracy

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Sacramento Bee: “Today, nearly one in four California voters, including 39 percent of Republicans, think the DMV is in such poor shape it cannot be fixed, according to a Probolsky Research poll conducted last month.” Read the article by Bryan Anderson here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article229967789.html#storylink=cpy With so much reporting lately and what seems like the ever present public […]

Making Infrastructure Relatable

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Originally published in PublicCEO – written by Adam Probolsky If your kid came home with a D+ on her report card, you would start asking questions. How did things get this bad? Why didn’t we catch the problem sooner? And what’s the name of a good tutor? Americans are in a similar predicament with our failing […]

Adam Probolsky on Digital Politics Podcast

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The Digital Politics podcast is a great forum for thoughtful talk about U.S. politics. Adam Probolsky, president of Probolsky Research joined host Karen Jagoda on this week’s edition. You can click on the graphic below or paste the URL under that into your browser to listen to the discussion. Or paste this url into your […]

CA Voters Want Harris to Run for President

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The latest Probolsky Poll shows 44% of California voters want Senator Kamala Harris to run. You can view the Probolsky Poll presentation below. Yes, want her to run 44% No, don’t want her to run 38% Unsure/Refused 18% Watch pollster Adam Probolsky explain why voter support numbers for Senator Harris’ run aren’t higher: “Having the […]

What Citizens Really Think

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What Citizens Really Think Civic-engagement platforms have their uses, but they’re no substitute for public opinion research. By Adam Probolsky Published December 10, 2018 Every city council, school board and local-government agency has them: gadflies who attend every public meeting. Sometimes they may be the only public speakers. They make full use of the public-comment […]

Voting is Changing.

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                Voting is Changing. Are consultants keeping up? By Adam Probolsky Published December 6, 2018 Link to the article here. In recent years, voters have expressed angst over a sense that their vote doesn’t count. To find better elected officials and combat voter angst, many communities have spurned the […]

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