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Questions - South Carolina Governor - October 19, 2010

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South Carolina State Survey of 500 Likely Voters
Conducted October 19, 2010
By Rasmussen Reports

1* If the 2010 Election for Governor of South Carolina were held today would you vote for Republican Nikki Haley or Democrat Vincent Sheheen? (Please note that we split the survey to rotate the order of the candidate names, so while half will hear the Republican candidate first, the other half hears the Democrat mentioned first.)

 

47% Nikky Haley (R)

38% Vincent Sheheen (D)

  4% Some Other Candidate

11% Not Sure

 

2* 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.

 

Haley

Sheheen

 

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* Which gubernatorial candidate do you trust more on the Economy and Jobs…Nikki Haley or Vincent Sheheen?

 

5* Which gubernatorial candidate do you trust more on Immigration?

 

6* Which gubernatorial candidate do you trust more on Health Care?

 

7* Which gubernatorial candidate do you trust more on Taxes… Nikki Haley or Vincent Sheheen?

 

8* Which gubernatorial candidate do you trust more to Cut Government Spending?

 

9* Which gubernatorial candidate do you trust more on Government Ethics and Corruption?

 

10* Generally speaking, how would you rate the U.S. economy these days? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

 

11* Are economic conditions in the country getting better or worse?

 

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 Mark Sanford 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, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence