Lindholm Company Blog

Lucy Vinis continues to have the lowest name familiarity among the major Eugene political figures.

QUESTION: Now, I am going to read the names of some people and organizations. Please tell me whether you have heard of each. IF HEARD OF … Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of ______ IF FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
RANDOMIZE ORDER
1. Kitty Piercy
2. Lucy Vinis
3. Mike Clark
4. Peter Sorenson
5. Pat Farr

METHODOLOGY: 200 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted September 13-15, 2016.The margin of error at the sample median for this surveys is 7%. 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median for this survey is 6%.

This shows the name familiarity for the eight current city councilors and for the one new councilor. The numbers for the eight are as one would expect based on past polling.

Emily Semple’s high rating is harder to explain. The key is that she was on the November ballot. It shows that campaigns increase name familiarity as does involvement in government service. The few contested city council races are probably a key factor in the lower city councilor name familiarities

QUESTION: Now, I am going to read the names of some people and organizations. Please tell me whether you have heard of each. IF HEARD OF … Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of ______ IF FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
RANDOMIZE ORDER
1. George Brown
2. Betty Taylor
3. Alan Zelenka
4. George Poling
5. Mike Clark
6. Greg Evans
7. Claire Syrett
8. Chris Pryor
9. Emily Semple

METHODOLOGY: 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median is 6%.

This chart highlights the seasonality of attitudes on homelessness in Eugene. Support for relaxing the regulations is greatest, though not even then a plurality, during the colder months. Last September, however, the attitude was strongly negative.

QUESTION: Do you approve or disapprove of the City of Eugene relaxing code enforcement on homeless camping?
IF APPROVE/DISAPPROVE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
IF DON’T KNOW: Which way do you lean?

METHODOLOGY: 200 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted December 1-2, 2015, and February 22-23 and September 13-15, 2016.The margin of error at the sample median for this surveys is 7%. In addition, 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median for this survey is 6%.

There is no strong support for relaxing homeless code enforcement. It is worth noting that this survey was conducted after Thanksgiving and the weather had started to turn wintry.

QUESTION: Do you approve or disapprove of the City of Eugene relaxing code enforcement on homeless camping?
IF APPROVE/DISAPPROVE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
IF DON’T KNOW: Which way do you lean?

METHODOLOGY: 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median is 6%.

Eugeneans solidly support renaming Broadway Plaza as Kesey Square.

QUESTION: Do you support or oppose renaming downtown’s Broadway Plaza as Kesey Square?
IF SUPPORT/OPPOSE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
IF DON’T KNOW: Which way do you lean?

METHODOLOGY: 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median is 6%.

There is overwhelming support for increased police patrols in downtown Eugene.
QUESTION: Do you support or oppose increasing police patrols in downtown Eugene?
IF SUPPORT/OPPOSE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
IF DON’T KNOW: Which way do you lean?

METHODOLOGY: 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median is 6%.

Eugeneans pretty clearly disapprove of how the new city hall project has been handled. One question: How will this mismanagement belief affect future voter support for city efforts?

QUESTION: Do you approve or disapprove of how the project to build the new Eugene City Hall has been handled?
IF APPROVE/DISAPPROVE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
IF DON’T KNOW: Which way do you lean?

METHODOLOGY: 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median is 6%.

It’s pretty clear that Eugeneans think the city hall project is off on the wrong track.

QUESTION: Do you feel the project to build the new Eugene City Hall is moving in the right direction or do you think things have gotten off on the wrong track?

METHODOLOGY: 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median is 6%.

Eugeneans now overwhelmingly prefer the EWEB site for the new city hall.

Councilor Mike Clark originally proposed this in what now seems like eons ago. However, it seems took the perception of gross mismanagement to really sell the site.

QUESTION: Three sites have been widely discussed for the new city hall:
build at the current city hall site east of the county building,
build at the current “butterfly parking lot site west of the county building, or
renovate the current EWEB headquarters building.
Which do you prefer?

METHODOLOGY: 240 live telephone interviews of likely City of Eugene General election voters were conducted November 29 through December 1, 2016. The margin of error at the sample median is 6%.

This post examines the distribution of “Strongly Unfavorables.” As with “Unfavorables” in the last post, the most important demographic was party. The same three variables, age, education, and home ownership status, were the next most important.

QUESTIONS: Now, I am going to read the names of some people. Please tell me whether you have heard of each. IF HEARD OF … Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of ______ IF FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE: Is that strongly or somewhat?
RANDOMIZE
1. Donald J Trump
2. Hillary Clinton

METHODOLOGY: Three surveys of 400 live telephone interviews of likely Oregon 2016 General election voters each were conducted October 3-6, October 17-21, and October 31-November 2, 2016. Likelihood was determined based on modeling and was validated within the questionnaire. The margin of error at the sample median is 5%.

These three surveys were then pooled to create The key demographics were determined using CHAID methodology.
Four codes were used:
1. Both: Strongly Unfavorable about both Clinton and Trump.
2. Clinton: Strongly Unfavorable about Clinton.
3. Trump: Strongly Unfavorable about Trump.
4. Neither: Strongly Unfavorable about neither Clinton nor Trump.