September 4, 2008 - 08:32

New poll won't sway GOP on top two

MINNEAPOLIS - Elway Research conducted a poll for the secretary of state's office the weekend after the "top two" primary to gauge voter approval of the new system and found largely positive results. The Olympian reports that the Elway poll found 76 percent of respondents approved of the new system with a margin of error of +/- 4.5 percent.

The poll, however, was not enough to change the mind of Republican Party Chair Luke Esser who, along with the Democratic Party, has been a longtime opponent of the top two system.

"First of all Elway, a couple weeks before the primary, had Christine Gregoire beating Rossi by 16 percentage points," Esser said, "so his numbers have been a little but suspect lately."

Esser also thought that the way the poll was conducted, comparing the top two system to the pick-a-party system, yielded inaccurate results because of the fact that he considers pick-a-party to be a pejorative term in Washington.

"I think if it was top two vs. the Montana style open primary you would probably get a different result," Esser predicted.

The Republican did acknowledge that the best poll of the system, the original ballot initiative, passed with about sixty percent of the vote, though that came along with a well-funded advocacy campaign and virtually no "no" campaign. Still, he felt that this was an instance where public opinion was secondary to the law.

"The real bottom line here is, ‘is it constitutional or not?', and we still think it is unconstitutional," Esser said. "The courts will tell us ultimately."

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Bryan Bissell is a PolitickerWA.com Reporter and can be reached via email at noreply@politicker.com.

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