Georgia Toplines - Senate Election - August 14, 2008

Georgia Survey of 500 Likely Voters
Conducted August 14, 2008
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How do you rate the way that Sonny Perdue is performing his role as Governor? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

20% Excellent

27% Good

35% Fair

16% Poor

2% Not sure

2* In the 2008 election for United States Senator, suppose you had a choice between Democrat Jim Martin and Republican Saxby Chambliss. If the election were held today, would you vote for Democrat Jim Martin or Republican Saxby Chambliss?

	Without Leaners	With Leaners
Chambliss	48%	50%
Martin	43%	44%
Other	3%	1%
Not sure	7%	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.

	Chambliss	Martin
Very Favorable	23%	17%
Somewhat Favorable	34%	30%
Somewhat Unfavorable	17%	20%
Very Unfavorable	17%	14%
Not sure	8%	19%

4* Does the school year start too early for students in Georgia?

58% Yes

26% No

16% Not sure

5* Recently, one GA County approved spanking in school. Should Georgia schools allow teachers to spank students in school?

41% Yes

46% No

13% Not sure

6* How concerned are you about the drought in the state of Georgia?

53% Very concerned
36% Somewhat concerned

6% Not very concerned
0% Not at all concerned

4% Not sure

7* Are you more concerned or less concerned about the drought as you were last year?

35% More concerned

48% Less concerned

16% About the same

2% Not sure

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