Toplines - Terrorist Attempt - December 30, 2009
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Daily Snapshot
National Survey of 1,000 Likely
Voters
Conducted December 30, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports
1*Some people say that there is a
natural tension between protecting individual rights and national security. In
the United States today, does our legal system worry too much about protecting
individual rights, too much about protecting national security, or is the
balance about right?
43% Legal system worries too much about protecting
individual rights
17% Legal system worries too much about protecting national security
28% Balance is about right
12% Not sure
2* In
light of the recent attempt to blow up an airliner as it was landing in
Detroit, should the United States take full control of security measures at
foreign airports so that anyone flying to the U.S. would have to go through
U.S. security?
54% Yes
29% No
16% Not sure
3* Should the attempt to blow up
the airliner be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act or by
civilian authorities as a criminal act?
71% By the military as a terrorist act
22% By civilian authorities as a criminal act
7% Not sure
4* Should waterboarding and other aggressive
interrogation techniques be used to gain information from the suspected bomber?
58% Yes
30% No
12% Not sure
5* How do you rate the U.S. government’s response to the attempted airline
bombing – excellent, good, fair or poor?
5% Excellent
29% Good
27% Fair
35% Poor
4% Not sure
NOTE:
Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of
confidence