October 4-7, 2012: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press—Nationwide poll on how effective President Obama and Mitt Romney۪s policies would be at helping poor people.
Thinking about what Barack Obama might do for some groups if he were elected (president in 2012) for a second term, do you think his policies would help…poor people, or not?
64% Yes, would help
30% No, would not
1% Depends/Both/Neither (Vol.)
5% Don۪t know/Refused
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, October 4 – October 7, 2012 and based on 1,511 telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. 906 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 605 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 291 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.100812.R64C]
Thinking about what Mitt Romney might do for some groups if he were elected (president in 2012), do you think his policies would help…poor people, or not?
35% Yes, would help
58% No, would not
1% Depends/Both/Neither (Vol.)
6% Don۪t know/Refused
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, October 4 – October 7, 2012 and based on 1,511 telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. 906 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 605 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 291 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.100812.R65C]
Formal Citation
Pew Research Center for the People , Oct, 2012. Retrieved Oct-26-2012 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html