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Airzona Presidential Election

Survey of 500 Likely Voters

June 25, 2008

1* How do you rate the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

15% Excellent

24% Good

14% Fair

45% Poor

2% Not sure

2* How do you rate the way that Janet Napolitano is performing her role as President? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

23% Excellent

29% Good

25% Fair

23% Poor

0% Not sure

2* If the Presidential Election were held today, would you vote for Republican John McCain, Democrat Barack Obama or Libertarian Bob Barr?

McCain	49%
Obama	40%
Other	6%
Not sure	5%

3* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

	Obama	McCain
Very Favorable	28%	21%
Somewhat Favorable	19%	39%
Somewhat Unfavorable	15%	21%
Very Unfavorable	34%	15%
Not sure	3%	4%

4* A proposed amendment to the Arizona State Constitution may be on the ballot this November. The Amendment would prohibit state and local governments from granting preferential treatment to any individual or group based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. If the election were held today would you vote for or against the proposed amendment?

48% For

21% Against

31% Not sure

5* Should Barack Obama select Hillary Clinton as his Vice-Presidential running mate?

23% Yes

61% No

16% Not sure

6* Is John McCain too old to be President?

27% Yes

69% No

5% Not sure

7*Is Barack Obama too inexperienced to be President?

50% Yes

43% No

8% Not sure

8* When it comes to the situation in Iraq, which is the more important goal for the next president to accomplish during his first term…winning the war or getting the troops home?

47% Winning the war

46% Getting the troops home

7% Not sure

9* Some people believe that the federal government has become a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests. What do you think? Has the federal government become a special interest group?

73% Yes

11% No

16% Not sure

10* Generally speaking, does the federal government represent the will of the people?

17% Yes

72% No

11% Not sure

11*John McCain favors drilling in offshore oil wells to help reduce the price of gas. Barack Obama opposes offshore oil wells and says it would not reduce the price of gas. Should drilling be allowed in offshore oil wells off the coasts of California, Florida, and other states?

61% Yes

29% No

11% Not sure

12* If drilling in offshore oil wells is allowed, how likely is it that the price of gas will go down?

25% Very likely

29% Somewhat likely

26% Not very likely

11% Not at all likely

9% Not sure

13* Is free trade good or bad for the United States economy?

46% Good

24% Bad

19% Neither

11% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence