National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted February 11-12, 2010

By Rasmussen Reports

1* Should states have the right to opt out of federal government programs that they don’t agree with?

59% Yes
25% No
15% Not sure

2* Should states have the right to opt out of federally mandated programs if the federal government doesn’t help pay for them?

63% Yes
17% No
20% Not sure

3* Do individual states have the right to leave the United States and form an independent country?

14% Yes
72% No
13% Not sure

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