Toplines - Supreme Court - October 22-23, 2009
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Daily Snapshot
National Survey of 1,000 Likely
Voters
Conducted October 22-23, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports
1*
Generally speaking, how do you rate the way that the Supreme Court is doing its
job—Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor?
7% Excellent
36% Good
40% Fair
14% Poor
4% 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?
70% What’s written in the constitution
25% It should be guided by fairness and justice
6% 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?
44% What’s written in the constitution
29% By fairness and justice
28% Not sure
4* Do most Supreme Court Justices
have their own political agenda or do they generally remain impartial?
55% They have their own political agenda
29% They remain impartial
15% Not sure
5* In
political terms is the Supreme Court too liberal, too conservative, or about
right?
36% Too
liberal
20% Too
conservative
35% About
right
9% Not sure
NOTE: Margin of
Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence