Toplines - Massachusetts Offshore Drilling - April 5, 2010
Massachusetts State Survey of 500 Likely
Voters
Conducted April 5, 2010
By Rasmussen Reports
1* Should offshore oil drilling be allowed?
62% Yes
19%
No
19%
Not sure
2* President Obama has
proposed allowing more offshore drilling in some areas.
However, drilling will not be permitted off the coasts
of
40%
Yes
43%
No
17%
Not sure
3* Should individual states have the right to ban drilling off
their own coastlines?
43%
Yes
37%
No
20%
Not sure
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence