By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 10:07 AM
On October 10, pollster Rasmussen Reports asked 500 Missourians the following questions. The results suggest Missouri is still very red. Labels: Polls
How do you rate the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?19% Excellent
How do you rate the way that Matt Blunt is performing his role as Governor? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?
17% Good
17% Fair
45% Poor
1% Not Sure16% Excellent
If the election for Governor were held today, would you vote for Republican Matt Blunt or Democrat Jay Nixon?
25% Good
30% Fair
28% Poor
1% Not Sure44% Blunt
Would you favor or oppose an increase in the Missouri State Sales Tax to fund bridge repairs?
43% Nixon
6% Other
7% Not Sure28% Favor
Would you favor or oppose an increase in the Missouri State Sales Tax to fund public education?
51% Oppose
21% Not sure40% Favor
Would you favor or oppose an increase in the Missouri State Sales Tax to fund health care for lower income residents?
49% Oppose
11% Not sure40% Favor
Would you favor or oppose an increase in the Missouri State Sales Tax to fund expanding Interstate 70 to six lanes?
46% Oppose
14% Not sure18% Favor
Should money for highway and bridge improvements come from tolls or higher state sales taxes?
67% Oppose
15% Not sure53% Tolls
Should money from union dues be used to support political candidates or political parties?
15% Higher taxes
25% Neither
6% Not sure12% Yes
If a Missouri State Highway Patrol Officer pulls someone over for a traffic violation, should the officer automatically check to see if that person is in the country legally?
74% No
14% Not sure79% Yes
If an officer finds that a person pulled over for a traffic violation is an illegal alien, should that person be deported?
13% No
9% Not sure73% Yes
If police officers are required to check the immigration status of every person they pull over, does that create the temptation to discriminate against people based on their name, their accent and the color of their skin?
11% No
16% Not sure23% Yes
62% No
15% Not sure
Should the Catholic Church deny communion to pro-choice politicians?18% Yes
48% No
34% Not sure
Click here to view the full Rasmussen poll results, including Presidential match-ups.
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
10 Comments:
Yeah, kick out the Mexicans and don't fund roads or education. Welcome to Missouri!
10/17/2007 10:46 AM
I think the tax increase questions just show how fearful the people are of government doing what it says it will do.
How about that Metrolink coming in on time and on budget?
I am very fearful of highway 40 being done on time, on budget as well, and if a tax increase were needed to fund it, it would not be done. We shall see.
More money for public education? I thought the casinos were supposed to take care of that. The horse is out out that barn, the genie out of that bottle, the toothpaste out of that tube, and taxpayers lost. . .
10/17/2007 12:16 PM
That Catholic question is nonsense. That debate belongs among the Catholics, not in a general poll.
10/17/2007 1:16 PM
Is this a joke? Only 500 people were polled and I am to assume that the rest of Missouri feels the same way? Where are the 500 from – North St. Louis, South Kansas City, St. Joseph, Kirksville, and Springfield?
Give me a poll with a larger sample base, their ethnicity, and what part of the state they are from. Then I might have a little more faith in the numbers. Obviously this poll set out to prove what it wanted to prove. Even that I am unsure of.
10/17/2007 1:33 PM
You think North St. Louis would give answers like this?
Your point is well taken but that comment is weird.
10/17/2007 2:12 PM
Questions:
Do you people understand how polls are conducted?
Do you think they poll hundreds of thousands of people?
Do you know what a "sample" is?
How significant do you think north St. Louis is in Missouri politics?
10/17/2007 2:28 PM
Didnt this same poll have Talent ahead of McCaskill the whole race last campaign cycle. This poll always gives extra points to republicans. I say its more like Nixon at 46 Blunt at 41
10/17/2007 4:52 PM
^ I have no idea how good the current poll is, but Rasmussen moved Claire ahead of Talent in July 2006.
10/17/2007 6:39 PM
God forbid they considered some sort of taxatcion other than the most regressive tax---the sales tax.
By the way---while the msm is trumpeting about today's Rasmussen poll showing Hillary leading in Iowa 33 to 22 to 21 over Obama and Edwards----you will not hear possibley more significant news---Obama was 27 points down in the daily tracking poll nation wide last Sunday---today he is 19 points down.
Polls are only so good---a lot of factors bend them one direction or another.
10/17/2007 8:39 PM
Perhaps we should look to so-called "sin taxes" rather than sales taxes. How much would that recently proposed cigarette tax have raised?
And for those opposed to it because you are afraid it will make people quit smoking (thereby raising less money as time goes on) I can think of worse side effects. Aren't we supposed to be quitting smoking anyway? So the worst thing that could happen is fewer people smoke and our health care costs go down, not to mention more money in our pockets from not buying cigarettes. Then we could afford a little higher taxes, right? On the other hand, if a higher tax doesn't stop people from smoking we collect money to use for other things like, oh...I don't know...SCHOOLS and STREETS maybe?
I think it is true that Missouri has the lowest (nearly lowest?) tax on cigarettes in the nation. Sorry if this is incorrect.
And then you have alcohol, gambling, etc.
By the way, I am a smoker (yes, I would like to stop) and judging by what ex-smokers and doctors have told me about the addiction, I don't think higher taxes would make me stop.
10/20/2007 4:56 PM
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