January 7-11, 2010: Democracy Corps Poll—Nationwide poll includes questions on food stamps, unemployment benefits, Medicaid, and other government benefits.
“(Now, I’d like to rate your feelings toward some people and organizations, with one hundred meaning a very warm, favorable feeling, zero meaning a very cold unfavorable feeling, and fifty meaning not particularly warm or cold. You can use any number from zero to one hundred, the higher the number the more favorable your feelings are toward that person or organization. If you have no opinion or never heard of that person or organization, please say so.)…Food stamps…Give…food stamps a rating, with 100 meaning a very warm, favorable feeling, zero meaning a very cold, unfavorable feeling, and 50 meaning not particularly warm or cold. (If Don’t know, ask:) Would you say you are unable to give an opinion of…food stamps, or have you never heard of…food stamps?”
38% Warm 51-100
31% Cool 0-49
23% Not particularly warm or cold 50
8% Never heard of/Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form A half sample. Mean = 52.9
Survey by Democracy Corps. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, January 7 – January 11, 2010 and based on 1,001 telephone interviews. Sample: national voters. Voters are registered voters who voted in the 2008 election/weren’t registered/ineligible/too young to vote. 154 respondents were interviewed on cell phones. [USGREEN.10DCJAN.R25]
Formal Citation
Democracy Corps Poll, Jan, 2010. Retrieved Sep-2-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html
“Please tell me whether you have received or not received any of these benefits from your state or local government in the last year–Food Stamps, unemployment benefits, state children’s health insurance benefits, Medicaid or reduced school lunches.”