Field Poll Spotlights Strength of Voter Support for Term Limits Reform

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Saturday’s Field Poll release on the term limits reform initiative drives home an important fact: allowing a transition period for legislators doesn’t really affect support one way or another.

First I should mention that 59 percent of voters say they support term limits reform. Then, when those same voters are asked about a transition period for current legislators and if that would change their vote, 68 percent said "no."

Voters get and accept that law and fairness require a brief transition period for current legislators. And don’t forget, a far more generous transition was allowed under the first term limits initiative passed in 1990.

Also, voters understand that going from 14 to 12 years is a plain and simple reduction in the number of years a legislator can serve.

Another plain and simple fact is that statewide poll after statewide poll shows strong, bipartisan support for term limits reform.

See the poll here.

More on the initiative here.