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Pennsylvania Toplines - January 3, 2008

Pennsylvania

Survey of 500 Likely Voters

January 3, 2008

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

14% Excellent

19% Good

22% Fair

43% Poor

1% Not Sure

2* How do you rate the way that Ed Rendell is performing his role as Governor? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

11% Excellent

30% Good

33% Fair

25% Poor

2% Not Sure

3* 2008 Presidential General Election Match-Ups

Clinton

49%

Clinton

46%

Clinton

42%

Obama

43%

Obama

38%

Romney

39%

Huckabee

44%

McCain

48%

Romney

38%

McCain

46%

Other

9%

Other

7%

Other

7%

Other

13%

Other

11%

Not sure

3%

Not sure

3%

Not sure

3%

Not sure

5%

Not sure

5%

4* Favorables for Presidential Candidates

Clinton

Romney

Obama

Huckabee

McCain

Very Favorable

25%

7%

22%

16%

20%

Somewhat Favorable

28%

35%

37%

34%

44%

Somewhat Unfavorable

16%

35%

20%

29%

23%

Very Unfavorable

31%

17%

18%

15%

9%

Not sure

1%

6%

4%

6%

4%


5* Pennsylvania's Presidential Primary is slated for April 22nd, should the state move its primary earlier in the calendar year, as a number of other states have done in the past few years?

36% Yes

41% No

23% Not sure

6* Should the state of Pennsylvania ban the use of the death penalty?

27% Yes

61% No

13% Not sure

7* Should Pennsylvania residents be allowed to vote on whether or not the state should ban the death penalty?

70% Yes

20% No

10% Not sure

8* If a Pennsylvania police officer pulls someone over for a traffic violation, should the officer automatically check to see if that person is in the country legally?

77% Yes

13% No

10% Not sure

9* If an officer finds that a person pulled over for a traffic violation is an illegal immigrant, should that person be deported?

61% Yes

17% No

22% Not sure

10* If police officers are required to check the immigration status of every person they pull over, does that create the temptation to discriminate against people based on their name, their accent and the color of their skin?

35% Yes

55% No

10% Not sure

11* Should undocumented immigrants be allowed to get drivers’ licenses?

11% Yes

82% No

8% Not sure


12* Should English be the official language of the United States?

88% Yes

9% No

3% Not sure

13* Should a company be allowed to require that it’s employees speak English while on the job?

82% Yes

10% No

8% Not sure

14* Should election ballots and other official government documents be printed in English only or should they be printed in both English and Spanish?

61% English only

33% Both English and Spanish

6% Not sure

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