Toplines: Supreme Court

Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters

June 16, 2008

1* Generally speaking, how do you rate the way that the Supreme Court is doing its job—Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor?

5% Excellent
26% Good
45% Fair

21% Poor

3% Not sure

2* Should the Supreme Court make decisions based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents or should it be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice?

54% What’s written in the constitution
37% It should be guided by fairness and justice
9% Not sure

3* How does the Supreme Court work today? Does it make decisions primarily based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents or is it guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice?

46% What’s written in the constitution
27% By fairness and justice
28% Not sure

4* Do most Supreme Court Justices have their own political agenda or do they generally remain impartial?

60% They have their own political agenda
23% They remain impartial
17% Not sure

5*When it comes to how you will vote for President in Election 2008, how important an issue are the type of Supreme Court Justices a candidate would appoint?

54% Very important
32% Somewhat important
8% Not very important

2% Not at all important
5% Not sure

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