December 16-18, 2008: Democracy Corps Poll—Nationwide poll of likely voters on the expansion of Medicaid and the State Children۪s Health Insurance Plan.
“Now I’m going to read you a list of proposals that Barack Obama is likely to make on a variety of issues. Here is a list of proposals Obama might make on the health care. For each one, please tell me how important it is that Obama enact this proposal. Is it extremely important to enact, very important to enact, just somewhat important to enact, not at all important to enact or would you actively oppose that proposal?…Expand Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan to cover all low-income Americans”
26% Extremely important
26% Very important
28% Somewhat important
6% Not at all important
11% Oppose
2% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form A half sample.
Survey by Democracy Corps. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, December 16 – December 18, 2008 and based on 1,000 telephone interviews. Sample: national likely voters. Likely voters are registered voters who voted in the 2006 and 2008 elections/weren’t registered/ineligible/too young to vote and said they are probably or almost certain to vote in the 2010 election. [USGREEN.08DCDEC.R057]
Formal Citation
Democracy Corps Poll, Dec, 2008. Retrieved Sep-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html