About these polls you talk about. The one by civil beat, there is nothing in there that asked if people supported rail.  What was asked was if one had a positive or negative opinion of Caldwell, if he's doing a good job on the rail project, and if there has to be a increase in taxes, which tax would you rather increase.  There was an overwhelming amount of people that had a negative opinion of Caldwell and saying that he wasn't doing a good job on overseeing the rail project.
The star advertiser poll was a little skewed in questions asked.  But 64% said to finish to Ala Moana.  I say skewed because construction is almost half done and most people would just go with what's going on already. Not to mention on that poll, 64% says finish it,  yet 57% and 83% says no to extending the surcharge or an increase in property taxes.  No raising taxes yet finish rail, kind of an oxymoron statement.