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Questions - Professional Ethics - April 8-9, 2014

78% View Politicians As Less Ethical Than Those in Other Professions
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National Survey of 1,000 Adults

Conducted April 8-9, 2014
By Rasmussen Reports

1* Do most Americans try to do the right thing and live their lives in an ethical fashion?

57% Yes
27% No
16% Not sure

2* I am going to read you a short list of professions. For each, please let me know if you view them as more ethical or less ethical than those in other professions. Or are their ethics about the same as other Americans? 

Journalists
Politicians
Religious leaders
Police officers
Military personnel
Lawyers
Educators
Business owners

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