Question: If the November general election for U.S. Senate were being held today and the candidates were Republican, former State Senator Richard Mountjoy and Democrat, incumbent U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, for whom would you vote for U.S. Senate – Mountjoy or Feinstein?

About this Poll
The findings in this report are based on a random sample survey of California likely voters. Interviewing was conducted by telephone in English and Spanish between the period April 3- 10, 2006. A total of 1,431 California adults were reached and screened by telephone, including 706 likely voters in the November general election and 612 likely voters in the June primary election.

Telephone households were sampled using a random digit dial methodology, which randomly selects operating landline telephone exchanges within all area codes serving California households in proportion to population. Within each exchange, random samples of telephone numbers are created by adding random digits to each selected telephone exchange. This method gives each phone listing an equal chance of being selected and permits access to all landline telephone numbers both listed and unlisted.

According to statistical theory, 95% of the time results from the sample of likely voters in the general election have a sampling error of +/- 3.8 percentage points, while findings from the sample of likely voters in the primary election have a sampling error of +/- 4.1 percentage points. There are other possible sources of error in any survey other than sampling variability. Different results could occur because of differences in question wording, sampling, or sequencing or through undetected omissions or errors in interviewing or data processing. Extensive efforts were made to minimize such potential errors.