Toplines - 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic Primary - March 15, 2010

Pennsylvania State Survey of 481 Likely Democratic Primary Voters

Conducted March 15, 2010

By Rasmussen Reports

1* 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?

45% Strongly approve

26% Somewhat approve

11% Somewhat disapprove

18% Strongly disapprove

1% Not sure

2* How would you rate the job Ed Rendell has been doing as Governor… do you strongly

approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been

doing?

27% Strongly approve

40% Somewhat approve

17% Somewhat disapprove

16% Strongly disapprove

1% Not sure

3* Suppose the Democratic Primary for the 2010 United States Senate were held today. Would you vote for Arlen Specter or Joe Sestak?

	Oct 13, 2009	Dec 8, 2009	Jan 18, 2010	Feb 8, 2010	Mar 15, 2010
Arlen Specter	46%	48%	53%	51%	48%
Joe Sestak	42%	35%	32%	36%	37%
Some other candidate	2%	3%	4%	4%	5%
Not sure	10%	14%	11%	9%	9%

4* 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.

	Specter	Sestak
Very Favorable	29%	18%
Somewhat Favorable	36%	39%
Somewhat Unfavorable	17%	15%
Very Unfavorable	14%	7%
Not Sure	4%	21%

5* Generally speaking, do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and the congressional Democrats?

42% Strongly favor
22% Somewhat favor
9% Somewhat oppose
24% Strongly oppose
3% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence