Pennsylvania Survey of 490 Likely Republican Voters

Conducted April 21, 2009

By Rasmussen Reports

1* I know it’s a long way off, but suppose the Republican Primary for the 2010 United States Senate race were held today. Would you vote for Arlen Specter or Pat Toomey?

30% Specter

51% Toomey

9% Some other candidate

10% 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 of:

	Specter	Toomey	Rendell
Very favorable	14%	22%	12%
Somewhat favorable	28%	44%	19%
Somewhat unfavorable	26%	15%	25%
Very unfavorable	29%	4%	41%
Not sure	2%	16%	2%

3* How closely have you followed recent news stories about the “tea party” protests?

45% Very closely, press 1

31% Somewhat closely, press 2

19% Not very closely, press 3

5% Not at all, press 4

1% Not sure

4* Do you personally know anyone who attended a tea party protest?

30% Yes

66% No

5% Not sure

5* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the tea party protests?

54% Very favorable
25% Somewhat favorable
8% Somewhat unfavorable

4% Very unfavorable

8% Not sure

6* Does the federal government have too much power and money, too little power and money, or about the right amount of power and money.

82% Too much power and money

4% Too little power and money

10% About the right amount of power and money

3% Not sure

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