Questions - Minnesota Governor - October 20, 2010
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Conducted October 6, 2010
By Rasmussen Reports
1* If the 2010 election for Minnesota’s next Governor were
held today would you vote for Republican Tom Emmer, Democrat Mark Dayton or
Independence Party candidate Tom Horner?
38% Tom
Emmer
40% Mark
15% Tom
Horner
1% Some other
candidate
5% Not sure
2* I’m
going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me
know Nou have a very favorable, somewhat favorable,
somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.
Tom Emmer
Mark
Dayton
Tom Horner
3*A
proposal has been made to repeal the health care bill and stop it from going
into effect. Do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose or strongly
oppose a proposal to repeal the health care bill?
4* The health care plan passed by
Congress requires every American to buy or obtain health insurance. Do you
Strongly Favor, Somewhat Favor, Somewhat Oppose, or Strongly Oppose a federal
law that requires every American to buy or obtain health insurance?
5* Should
individual states have the right to opt out of the entire national health care
plan?
6* Do the
policies and practices of the federal government encourage people to enter the
7* Which
is the better approach to dealing with illegal immigration—allowing individual
states to act on their own to enforce immigration laws or relying upon the
federal government to enforce immigration laws?
8* When it
comes to determining how you will vote this November, how important is the
issue of immigration?
9*
Are economic conditions in the country getting better or worse?
10* Last year, Congress and the
president enacted a $787 billion economic stimulus plan. So far, has the
economic stimulus plan helped the economy, hurt the economy or had no impact on
the economy?
11* In reacting to the nation’s
current economic problems, what worries you more….that the federal government
will do too much or that the federal government will not do enough?
12* Do you consider yourself
part of the Tea Party Movement?
13* How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as
President… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or
strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?
14* How
would you rate the job Tim Pawlenty has been doing as
Governor… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or
strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4 percentage points with a 95%
level of confidence