We're always hesitant to get too excited about polls, especially ones that come out in August. But it's hard to ignore KING 5's poll among likely voters showing 55% saying they are 'certain' to vote yes on I-1053 and only 18% certain to vote no. Pretty interesting breakdowns by demographic groups -- see here.

Cer-tain (adjective): free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure. It's pretty hard to change the vote of a voter who says they are 'certain' to vote for an initiative.

Lots of things can happen before November, of course, but it certainly does make intuitive sense that voters would strongly support I-1053:

1) They've already voted for the 2/3's requirement 3 times (and the courts have repeatedly rejected legal challenges to it)
2) Olympia arrogantly overturned Initiative 960 during this year's legislative session, repealing not just the 2/3's vote requirement for raising taxes, but also the sunshine provisions of I-960 (blocking transparency by hiding from the public the legislators' voting records and tax hike costs from appearing in the voters pamphlet)
3) Immediately following their elimination of the 2/3's requirement, Gregoire and the Democrats went on a whole-hog-tax-hiking-rampage, jacking up taxes $6.7 billion!!

Since 1993, Washington's had the 2/3's requirement. In those 17 years, during legislative sessions when it's been in effect, tax hikes were a last resort resulting in more reform and fewer taxes (for the two years following the passage of I-960, not a single tax was raised, despite $9 billion deficits). When Olympia suspends it (like this year), tax increases become a first resort with less reform and much higher taxes (again, $6.7 billion).

Let's bring back the protection Olympia took away and protect ourselves from job-killing, family-budget-busting tax hikes. Please vote YES on I-1053.

Learn more about I-1053 here: www.VotersWantMoreChoices.com