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Questions - Pennsylvania Senate - July 18, 2012

Pennsylvania Senate: Casey (D) 49%, Smith (R) 38%
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Pennsylvania Survey of 500 Likely Voters

Conducted July 18, 2012

By Rasmussen Reports

 

*Please note that we split the survey to rotate the order of the candidates, so while half will hear the Republican first, the other half hears the Democrat mentioned first.

 

1* If the 2012 election for U.S. Senate were held today would you vote for Republican Tom Smith or Democrat Bob Casey?

 

2* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

 

Tom Smith

Bob Casey

3* Generally speaking, how would you rate the U.S. economy these days? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

4* Are economic conditions in the country getting better or worse?

5* Will the health care plan passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama be good for the country or bad for the country?

 

6* A proposal has been made to repeal the health care law and stop it from going into effect. Do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose a proposal to repeal the health care bill?

 

7* How would you rate the job Tom Corbett has been doing as president… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?  

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence