National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted November 7-8, 2009

By Rasmussen Reports

1* Do most politicians keep their campaign promises?

4% Yes

76% No

19% Not sure

2* When politicians break campaign promises, is it usually because they deliberately made a false promise to get elected or because of unforeseen events after they took office?

45% They deliberately made a false promise

43% Unforeseen events

11% Not sure

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