February 16-19, 2012: Gallup/USA Today Poll—Nationwide poll on the importance of candidates۪ positions on the gap between the rich and poor.
(NowI am going to read a list of some of the issues that will probably be discussedin this year’s (2012) presidential election campaign. As I read each one,please tell me how important the candidates’ positions on that issue will be ininfluencing your vote for president–extremely important, very important, somewhatimportant, or not important.) How about…the gap between the rich and thepoor?
25% Extremely important
33% Very important
26% Somewhat important
16% Not important
* No opinion
Subpopulation/Note:. * = less than .5%.
Survey by USA Today. Methodology: Conducted by Gallup Organization, February 16- February 19, 2012 and based on 1,014 telephone interviews. Sample: Nationaladult. Interviews were conducted with respondents on landline telephones forrespondents with a landline telephone, and cellular phones for respondents whoare cell phone only. [USGALLUP.12FBY16.R16I]
FormalCitation
Gallup/USAToday Poll, Feb, 2012. Retrieved Mar-6-2012 from the iPOLL Databank, The RoperCenter for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html