MONTANA SURVEY of 1,000 likely voters

Thursday, July 6, 2006

Crosstabs for Ballot Questions 2008

1* If the election for the United States Senate were held today, would you vote for Republican Conrad Burns or for Democrat Jon Testor?

43% Burns

50% Testor

3% some other candidate

4% not sure

2* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression of:

	Burns	Testor
Very favorable	20%	26%
Somewhat favorable	29%	29%
Somewhat unfavorable	15%	27%
Very unfavorable	35%	12%
Not sure	2%	5%

3* If the 2008 Presidential election were held today, would you be likely to vote for the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate?

42% Democrat

39% Republican

16% it depends who they nominate

3% not sure

4* Suppose that, in the next Presidential election, you had a choice between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain?

28% Clinton

50% McCain

13% some other candidate

9% not sure

5* Fine… suppose the Republicans nominated Rudy Giuliani. If the election were held today, would you vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Rudy Giuliani?

32% Clinton

51% Giuliani

11% some other candidate

6% not sure

6*Great… what if the Democrats nominate Al Gore and the Republicans nominate John McCain? For whom would you vote?

33% Gore

51% McCain

10% some other candidate

6% not sure

7* Last one… what if the choice were between Democrat Al Gore and Republican Rudy Giuliani?

39% Gore

49% Giuliani

8% some other candidate

5% not sure

8* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression of:

	Clinton	McCain	Giuliani	Gore
Very favorable	11%	17%	21%	20%
Somewhat favorable	32%	45%	40%	26%
Somewhat unfavorable	18%	23%	20%	18%
Very unfavorable	37%	10%	13%	15%
Not sure	1%	5%	6%	2%

9* How would you rate the job George W. Bush has been doing as President… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

30% strongly approve

19% somewhat approve

11% somewhat disapprove

39% strongly disapprove

1% not sure

10* How would you rate the job Brian Schweitzer has been doing as Governor… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

39% strongly approve

34% somewhat approve

15% somewhat disapprove

9% strongly disapprove

3% not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.