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Survey of 500 Likely Voters December 15, 2005
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December 27, 2005--Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano holds large leads against three potential challengers in her bid for re-election. The most competitive Republican challenger is Don Goldwater, nephew of the 1964 GOP Presidential candidate and conservative icon. Even with his famous name, he trails Napolitano by 20 percentage points, 50% to 30%. John Greene, former President of the State Senate, trails Napolitano 56% to 23%. Fomer state appeals court judge Jan Florez trails 52% to 25%. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Arizona voters approve of the way Napolitano is performing her role as Governor. Related survey data shows Republican Senator Jon Kyl with a solid lead in his bid for re-election as well. Toplines for all survey questions along with crosstabs are available for Premium Members. [More Below]
The only discouraging note in the survey for Napolitano may be that 56% of Arizona voters favor building a barrier along the Mexican border to help reduce illegal immigration. Thirty-seven percent (37%) are opposed. Napolitano is opposed to such a barrier. Nearly half (48%) of Arizona voters say that immigration is a more important issue than the situation in Iraq. Among those who consider the immigration issue more important than Iraq, 73% favor building a barrier along the Mexican border. Toplines for all survey questions along with crosstabs are available for Premium Members. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. The Rasmussen Reports ElectionEdgeTM Premium Service for Election 2006 offers the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a mid-term election. We will poll every Senate and Governor's race at least once a month. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.
The telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports December 15, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4.5 percentage points at the midpoint with a 95% level of confidence (see Methodology). |
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