There's new polling data out on the three ballot proposals and there is a striking finding on Proposal 5, the one to make it tougher to raise taxes in the legislature.
If voters answer yes to Proposal 5, in the future any tax increases would take a two-thirds vote, not a simple majority to pass. But getting your arms around how the voters feel about this is a bit tricky. One pollster found 64 percent support for the proposal. While an internal survey done for the coalition trying to kill the amendment, shows it going down with less than 50 percent support.
"It's easy to understand. Do you want two thirds of the legislature to vote to raise your taxes? Yes or no and right now it sounds pretty good to the people," said Tom Shields with the Marketing Resource Group. (Reporter) But the other side says it is bad government. (Shields) "That's their problem."
"When you ask about a candidate, they can form and opinion, but with a ballot question, you are on the phone, they throw 100 words at you, you don't have a clue as to what your are responding to," said Roger Martin with Martin-Waymire Consulting.
On Proposal 2 to bake collective bargaining rights into the state constitution, the MRG survey shows 48 percent yes and 42 percent no.
On giving votes the veto power to kill a proposed second span between Detroit and Canada, its 52 percent yes and 38 percent no.
The survey also found that the public's perception of how the GOP runs legislature isn't doing very well, 30 percent approve while 46 percent disapprove. So the question is, as the democrats fight to regain control, do these numbers help?
"It's actually increasing. It's at 30 percent, but last year it was at 20 percent and the year before that at 17 percent, so it is getting better and better than Congress."
In addition to taxes and death as the only sure things in life, between now and November, you can add there will be more polls and more commercials.
