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Toplines - Campaign Finance - February 18-19, 2008
Rasmussen
Reports Survey
of 1,000 Adults February
18-19, 2008 1* Generally speaking, do you favor or oppose
public funding of Presidential campaigns? 30% Favor 47% Oppose 23% Not sure 2* Should public funding be provided for all Senate
and Congressional races? 19% Yes 59% No 22% Not sure 3* Under
current law, a Presidential candidate can accept public funding for his or her
campaign or the candidate can refuse the public
funding and raise money from private donors. Would you be more likely or less
likely to vote for a candidate who refused public funding and raised money from
private donors?
41% More likely
23% Less likely
29% No impact
7% Not sure 4* Last year, John
McCain and Barack Obama indicated that they would both accept public funding
for a general election campaign if their opponent would do the same. One of
these candidates recently re-affirmed his commitment to accept public funding.
Did McCain or Obama re-affirm his commitment to accept public funding rather
than raising money from private donors? 27% McCain 16% Obama 56% Not
sure 5* What
matters most in terms of winning elections, having friendly reporters or
raising a lot of campaign contributions?
30% Friendly reporters
29% Raising a
lot of campaign contributions
40% Not sure NOTE: Margin
of Sampling Error, +/- 3.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence |