SACRAMENTO -- A measure aimed at changing teacher tenure is the only one of three ballot initiatives backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that is supported by a majority of California voters, according to a new statewide poll.

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The news Wednesday comes in the wake of the governor's plunging job approval rating and a new promise from Schwarzenegger to bring a more bipartisan effort in solving the state's budget impasse and to find compromise on his ballot measures.

The governor called the special election for Nov. 8 and put three measures before voters: a new spending cap; a new system for drawing legislative district boundaries and a proposal that would increase the probationary term for public schools teachers from two years to five.

A compromise agreement with the Legislature's Democratic majority could still be worked out in which a separate set of measures could be placed on the ballot by lawmakers supported by both the governor and Democrats.

The Field Poll reported that while most likely voters are aware of all three of his proposals -- only his teacher tenure idea has the support of a majority -- with 61 percent in favor and 32 percent opposed and 7 percent undecided.

The governor's spending cap proposal, which would impose across the board spending cuts whenever spending outstripped tax income, has support from 35 percent of the voters who participated in the poll. The poll found 42 percent of likely voters oppose the governor's spending cap measure, with 23 percent undecided.

Schwarzenegger's plan to turn over control of drawing legislative and congressional districts to a panel of retired judges is opposed by 46 percent of likely voters, with 35 percent favoring and 19 percent undecided.

"This is an early, knee-jerk reaction to the measures," said poll director Mark DiCamillo. "But he clearly has some work to do with two of the three initiatives."

The poll results cannot be good news for Schwarzenegger and his supporters, who raised and spent close to $15 million to qualify the three measures for the special election ballot.

But voters apparently do not share the governor's sense of urgency for the election or for most of the measures that will appear on the ballot.

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The poll found that 52 percent of voters oppose holding the election while only 37 percent are in favor of it -- a turnaround of 18 percentage points since the survey was conducted in February.

Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger job approval has fallen to 37 percent -- another big drop of 18 percentage points since February.

The governor said Tuesday that voters were delivering a message that they wanted him and the Legislature's Democratic majority to work together on solving California's many problems.

"It is a very clear message from the California people to all of us at the Capitol -- work together," he said during a news conference Tuesday. "Democrats and Republicans, the governor's office -- let's all work together."

The survey, conducted over a seven-day period ending June 19, was drawn from interviews with 954 California adults that included 711 registered voters. It has a sampling error of 3.2 percentage points.