January 20-23, 2010: NPR Poll—Nationwide poll of likely voters asks respondents to rank the relative importance of issues including Social Security and Medicare, health care, and the federal deficit.
“Which one of the following issues do you think the President (Barack Obama) and Congress should be paying most attention to? Is it…education, taxes and spending, Social Security and Medicare, terrorism and national security, health care, the economy and jobs, moral values, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the federal deficit, or energy, oil dependence, and global warming?”
2% Education
10% Taxes and spending
4% Social Security and Medicare
8% Terrorism and national security
13% Health care
46% The economy and jobs
1% Moral values
6% The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
4% The federal deficit
3% Energy, oil dependence, and global warming
* None of these (Vol.)
2% Don’t know
1% Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form A half sample. * = less than .5%.
Survey by National Public Radio. Methodology: Conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research & Public Opinion Strategies, January 20 – January 23, 2010 and based on 800 telephone interviews. Sample: national likely voters. National likely voters are registered voters who voted in the 2008 election/weren’t registered/ineligible/too young to vote and said they are probably or almost certain to vote in the 2010 election. The interview dates were January 20-21 & 23, 2010. [USGREEN.10NPRJAN.R09]
Formal Citation
NPR Poll, Jan, 2010. Retrieved Nov-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
“And which one of the following should the President (Barack Obama) and Congress be paying the next most attention to?…Education, taxes and spending, Social Security and Medicare, terrorism and national security, health care, the economy and jobs, moral values, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the federal deficit, energy, oil dependence, and global warming”
8% Education
9% Taxes and spending
6% Social Security and Medicare
13% Terrorism and national security
13% Health care
17% The economy and jobs
2% Moral values
14% The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
10% The federal deficit
6% Energy, oil dependence, and global warming
* None of these (Vol.)
1% Don’t know
* Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form A half sample. * = less than .5%.
Survey by National Public Radio. Methodology: Conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research & Public Opinion Strategies, January 20 – January 23, 2010 and based on 800 telephone interviews. Sample: national likely voters. National likely voters are registered voters who voted in the 2008 election/weren’t registered/ineligible/too young to vote and said they are probably or almost certain to vote in the 2010 election. The interview dates were January 20-21 & 23, 2010. [USGREEN.10NPRJAN.R09A]
Formal Citation
NPR Poll, Jan, 2010. Retrieved Nov-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