Friday, August 3, 2012

CA and US poll results: citizen interest in microlobbying issues

TopCorner community: here are the results of the representative polls YouGov ran for us in CA and the US. 

http://issuu.com/mewells/docs/topcornerpoll1

Question asked: "Imagine that you were going to contribute a small amount of your own money to a national (or state) political campaign. Which (if any) of the following causes would you be most likely to contribute to? Please choose no more than three."

NATIONAL RESULTS:
31% (A) Cutting taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies;
19% (B) Serving healthier meals in public schools;
16% (C) Removing hidden subsidies for sugar and corn;
24% (D) Stopping child abuse by introducing abuse education programs in high schools;
3% (E) Prohibiting the altering of women’s pictures in magazines;
11% (F) Teaching computer science in middle school and high school;
14% (G) Labeling genetically modified foods;
9% (H) Protecting
students from predatory for-profit universities;
23% (I) Making Congress more efficient by fixing the filibuster so that it doesn’t artificially impede the passage of legislation;
36% (J) Demanding a more bipartisan Congress (for example by withholding congressional pay if congress fails to pass a budget, requiring bipartisan seating during sessions of congress, or requiring bipartisan town hall meetings);
22% (K) None of the above

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