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Toplines - Woodford January 2024

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National Survey of 1,178 Likely Voters

Conducted January 17, 2024

By Rasmussen Reports and the Woodford Foundation

 

 

Generally speaking, do you feel things in this country are going in the right direction, or have they gotten off on the wrong track?

 

34%     Right direction

60%     Wrong track

6%       Not sure

 

End “corporate welfare.”  Government should not give handouts to businesses.

 

64%     Agree

20%     Disagree

16%     Not sure

 

Government should remove barriers to international free trade.
           

40%     Agree

33%     Disagree

27%     Not sure

 

People should be able to control their own retirement.  Social Security should be privatized.

 

44%     Agree

41%     Disagree

15%     Not sure

 

Government welfare should be replaced with private charity.

 

33%     Agree

49%     Disagree

18%     Not sure

 

Taxes and government spending should be cut by 50% or more.

 

57%     Agree

31%     Disagree

12%     Not sure

 

United States Department of Defense spending should be maintained at 4% of Gross Domestic Product.

 

            54%     Agree

22%     Disagree

24%     Not sure

 

The U.S. Department of Education should be eliminated.

 

36%     Agree

55%     Disagree

10%     Not sure

 

Health Savings Accounts should replace Medicare and Medicaid.

 

24%     Agree

58%     Disagree

18%     Not sure

 

The Department of Agriculture should be eliminated.

 

19%     Agree

69%     Disagree

12%     Not sure

 

Global warming is not a threat to the world.

 

38%     Agree

54%     Disagree

8%       Not sure

 

The Endangered Species Act should be repealed.

 

24%     Agree

58%     Disagree

18%     Not sure

 

Obamacare should be repealed.

 

            46%     Agree

42%     Disagree

12%     Not sure


Government should do much less, and allow people to work things out voluntarily among themselves.

 

            52%     Agree

35%     Disagree

12%     Not sure

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence