Connecticut: Voters want a voice and a vote
Buoyed by a poll that says 65 percent of Connecticut voters support initiative and referendum a group of advocates and candidates in favor of the concept met at the state Capitol Wednesday to promote the idea. The poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, a company owned by pollster Scott Rasmussen, found only 14 percent of the 500 likely voters opposed the idea of initiative and referendum and 20 percent weren’t sure about allowing citizens to collect signatures to get a specific agenda on the ballot. When broken down by political ideology Republican favored it 71 to 11 percent and Democrats favored it 56 to 19 percent. The largest cross tab of voters in support of it was those ages 18 to 29 who favored it 92 to 8 percent.