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Toplines - Trust on Issues - November 23-24, 2009

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted November 23-24, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports

1* I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue.

Issue

Republicans

Democrats

Not sure

Economy

48%

36%

16%

National security and the War on Terror

50%

37%

13%

War in Iraq

45%

38%

17%

Immigration

45%

33%

22%

Government ethics and corruption

34%

31%

35%

Taxes

47%

36%

17%

Health care

44%

42%

14%

Social Security

41%

41%

19%

Education

39%

41%

20%

Abortion

43%

38%

18%

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