Questions - Supreme Court and Obama - September 30-October 1, 2010

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted September 30-October 1, 2010

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?

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?

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?

4* Do most Supreme Court Justices have their own political agenda or do they generally remain impartial?

5* In political terms is the Supreme Court too liberal, too conservative, or about right?

6* Are Supreme Court justices nominated by Barack Obama be too liberal, too conservative, or about right?

7* 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?

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