What word or words come to mind when you think of Scott Wiener/Connie Chan?
Share of likely CA-11 voters in an independent poll naming each description. Shading indicates labels the candidate would embrace or reject.
Table listing the words likely CA-11 voters used to describe Scott Wiener and Connie Chan in an open-ended, optional USC poll question, Oct. 16-19, 2026, with the share of respondents naming each theme, from 2% to 11%, plus other responses at under 2% each. Each description is shaded by whether it is a label the candidate would embrace, would reject, or neither. Wiener's most common were corporate/donor-backed and effective/accomplished, at 10% each; 12 of his 20 themes are labels he would embrace and 7 are labels he would reject. Chan's most common were progressive/liberal at 11% and NIMBY/anti-housing at 10%; 8 of her 17 themes are labels she would embrace and 7 are labels she would reject.