Thursday, July 29, 2010

MONTANA - 60% DISAGREE WITH OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON ARIZONA - Only Illegals Will Vote For Obama Again???

60% in Montana Disagree with Legal Challenge of Arizona Law
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

By a two-to-one margin, voters in Montana disagree with the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona's new immigration law.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds that just 29% agree with the decision to challenge the law, but 60% disagree. These findings are similar to those found on the national level.
Sixty-five percent (65%) of voters in Montana, in fact, favor passage of an Arizona-like immigration law in their own state, slightly higher than the national average. Twenty-seven percent (27%) oppose such legislation.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters in the state also favor repeal of the new national health care bill, while 40% are opposed. These findings are comparable to voter views nationwide and include 45% who Strongly Favor repeal and 28% who Strongly Oppose it.
But then just 42% of all Montana voters now approve of the job President Obama is doing. Fifty-seven percent (57%) disapprove. This is slightly lower than Obama’s approval ratings nationally in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. John McCain edged Obama 49% to 47% in Montana in the 2008 election.
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The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Montana was conducted on July 18, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of all voters in Montana favor a welcoming immigration policy that excludes only national security threats, criminals and those who come to the United States to live off the welfare system. Twenty-five percent(25%) disagree with a policy that has those limitations, and another 16% are not sure.
Like voters in most states, those in Montana hold a pessimistic view of the economy. Only six percent (6%) rate the U.S. economy as good or excellent, while roughly half (49%) rate it as poor. Just 27% feel the economy is getting better these days, but 44% say it’s getting worse.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) say the United States is in a recession.
Fifty-six percent (56%) of Montana homeowners say their home is worth more than what they still owe on their mortgage. But 34% say they owe more than their house is worth. This, too, is comparable to findings nationally.
Thirty-one percent (31%) of the state's voters believe the $787-billion economic stimulus plan helped the economy, but 37% say it hurt.
Support for both offshore and deepwater oil drilling is slightly higher in Montana than it is nationally.
Thirty-four percent (34%) rate the president’s response to the Gulf oil leak as good or excellent, but 45% say his response has been poor. Nearly as many (43%) rate the response of the companies responsible for the oil leak, BP and Transocean, as poor, while just 15% think they've done a good or excellent job.
In November 2008, incumbent Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer was elected to his second term over Republican Roy Brown by a 66% to 33% margin. The governor still remains popular in Montana, with 63% of voters in the state approving of the job he is doing. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disapprove of his job performance.
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