"This morning," 1,063 respondents were told the evening of July 17 during a Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll, "Republican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner released an economic plan for Illinois.
"That plan calls for a freeze on property taxes and rolling back the 2010 tax increase. It also implements a new tax on services, such as advertising, legal services, and mini-storage centers. We'd like to know whether this type of plan would make you more likely or less likely to vote for him."
Rauner had certainly tested his service-tax proposal backward and forward before presenting it to the public last week, so I figured it had to poll fairly well. It did.
The poll found that 53 percent said they'd be more likely to vote for Rauner, while just 32 percent said they'd be less likely to vote for him and 15 percent said it made no difference.