While recent votes in San Diego and San Jose may have suggested that California voters are clamoring to claw back unionized workers' pension benefits, a new poll says the grassroots movement may not in fact be a movement at all.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a Field Poll conducted this week found that only 37 percent of registered voters who were surveyed said they felt that California's public workers received pension benefits that were too generous.
In fact, 36 percent said they believed that the benefits were just right, and another 17 percent felt that the benefits were actually not generous enough.
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