Wisconsin Toplines - December 5, 2007

Wisconsin

Survey of 500 Likely Voters

December 5, 2007

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

18% Excellent

23% Good

15% Fair

43% Poor

1% Not Sure

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

7% Excellent

28% Good

32% Fair

32% Poor

1% Not Sure

3* 2008 Presidential General Election Match-Ups

Clinton	42%	Clinton	46%	Clinton	45%	Obama	45%	Obama	48%
Giuliani	44%	Romney	40%	Huckabee	39%	Giuliani	42%	Huckabee	37%
Other	10%	Other	10%	Other	11%	Other	8%	Other	8%
Not sure	4%	Not sure	4%	Not sure	4%	Not sure	5%	Not sure	7%

4* Favorables

	Clinton	Huckabee	Giuliani	Obama	Romney
Very Favorable	18%	11%	19%	20%	9%
Somewhat Favorable	30%	33%	36%	36%	34%
Somewhat Unfavorable	18%	28%	25%	22%	28%
Very Unfavorable	33%	13%	16%	17%	16%
Not sure	1%	15%	4%	5%	13%

5* Wisconsin’s Presidential Primary is scheduled for mid-February. Will the Wisconsin primary make much of a difference in terms of who wins the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations?

38% Yes

35% No

27% Not sure

6* Democratic candidate Barack Obama recently admitted to underage drinking and drug use when he was younger. How likely is information like this to influence the way you vote for President?

6% Very likely

14% Somewhat likely

39% Not very likely

39% Not at all likely

3% Not sure

7* The lakes will freeze over soon, bringing on ice fishing season. Which Presidential candidate would you invite into your ice shanty for an afternoon of fishing and candid political discussion?

19% Hillary Clinton

17% Barack Obama

16% Rudy Giuliani

13% Mike Huckabee

10% John Edwards

9% Fred Thompson

4% John McCain

3% Mitt Romney

8% Not sure

8* This holiday season, will you spend more or less on gifts than you did last year?

21% More than last year

48% Less than last year

28% About the same

2% Not sure

9* The price of oil is close to $100 a barrel. With Wisconsin's winter almost here, which Presidential candidate do you believe would do the most to protect your pocketbook and keep heating costs lower?

20% Hillary Clinton

14% Rudy Giuliani

13% Barack Obama

9% John Edwards

8% Mike Huckabee

5% Fred Thompson

4% John McCain

3% Mitt Romney

23% Not sure

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

74% Yes

19% No

7% Not sure

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

53% Yes

21% No

25% Not sure

12* 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?

32% Yes

54% No

14% Not sure

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

11% Yes

79% No

10% Not sure

14* We’re just about finished… should English be the official language of the United States?

89% Yes

8% No

3% Not sure

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

76% Yes

12% No

12% Not sure

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