Civitas Poll Looks at Views on Obama, McCrory

Dec. 17, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Francis De Luca (919) 834-2099  Francis.deluca@nccivitas.org

RALEIGH – The latest Civitas Poll provides insights on North Carolina’s political scene.

NC Direction

Fifty-seven percent of respondents think the state is headed on the wrong track; less than a third (31 percent) think it’s headed in the right direction. The “right direction” result was the lowest since our July 2012 poll.

Legislature

Asked which party’s candidate they’d favor if the election for the state General Assembly were held today, 39 percent chose the generic Republican, and 42 percent chose the generic Democrat.

President Obama

President Obama’s job approval rating remains under water: 54 percent disapprove of the job he is doing. Forty-five percent approve.

Gov. Pat McCrory

The governor has a dead-even rating: 45 percent approve of the job he’s doing, 45 disapprove.

Text questions*:

And now thinking about North Carolina… Do you feel things in North Carolina are generally headed in the right direction or have gotten off on the wrong track?

 

	7/12		9/12		5/13		6/13		10/13		12/13
	25%		34%		41%		40%		33%		31%		Right Direction
	63%		53%		46%		53%		57%		57%		Wrong Track
	12%		12%		13%		7%		10%		12%		Don’t Know

 

Still thinking about North Carolina… If the election for North Carolina State Legislature were held today, would you be voting for the:

39%  Republican candidate

42%  Democratic candidate

5%    Neither

14%  Didn’t Know

Now, please tell me whether you approve or disapprove of … the job Barack Obama is doing as President of the United States.

	Total	Total		Strong	Smwt	Smwt	Strong	Don’t
	Approve	Disapprove		Approve	Approve	Disapp.	Disapp	Know
12/13	45%	54%		24%	20%	11%	43%	1%
10/13	44%	53%		25%	19%	9%	43%	3%-

… the job that Pat McCrory is doing as Governor of North Carolina.

	Total	Total		Strong	Smwt	Smwt	Strong	Don’t
	Approve	Disapprove		Approve	Approve.	Disapp	Disapp	Know
12/13	45%	45%		17%	28%	12%	34%	10%
10/13	46%	44%		17%	29%	13%	30%	10%

 

*Due to rounding, subtotals may differ from final sums.

Crosstabs here.

This poll of 600 registered voters in North Carolina was conducted Dec. 4-8, 2013 by National Research, Inc. of Holmdel, NJ. All respondents were part of a fully representative sample of registered general election voters in North Carolina. Twenty-five percent of the respondents were cell phone-only users. For purposes of this study, voters interviewed had to have voted in at least one of the past two general elections (2010, 2012) or be newly registered to vote since November 7, 2012.The confidence interval associated with a sample of this size is such that: 95 percent of the time, results from 600 interviews (registered voters) will be within +-4% of the “True Values.”

Civitas conducts the only regular live-caller polling of North Carolina voters. For more information on Civitas polling, see http://www.nccivitas.org/category/poll/.

The Civitas Institute is a policy institute based in Raleigh, N.C. More information is available at www.nccivitas.org, or contact Jim Tynen at (919) 834-2099 or james.tynen@nccivitas.org.