Civitas Poll Offers Insights into Voters’ Views of Obama, McCory

Oct. 31, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Francis De Luca (919) 834-2099
Francis.DeLuca@nccivitas.org

RALEIGH – A new Civitas Institute poll provides insights into North Carolina voters’ views of President Obama and Gov. Pat McCrory.

The survey of 600 registered North Carolina voters was done Oct. 20-24. The margin of error was plus-minus 4 percent.

Obama was viewed favorably by 43 percent, unfavorably by 52 percent. McCrory’s favorability rating was 43/44. Also, 44 percent approved of the president’s job performance, while 53 percent disapproved. The governor’s job rating was 46 percent approval, 44 percent disapproval.

“In our October poll it is better to be Gov. McCrory than it is to be President Obama,” said Civitas President Francis De Luca. “Despite taking a beating from liberal activists this year, Gov. McCrory is statistically at the break-even point. President Obama on the other hand is upside down by almost 10 points after the one-two punch of the federal government shutdown and the Affordable Care Act rollout.”

Today, Oct. 31, other results from the above poll will be released at our poll presentation, 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley. Topics will include voters’ views of Sen. Kay Hagan and Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate. (More information on the event here.)

Text of questions*:

Now, please tell me if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of…

TOTAL    TOTAL      VERY    SMWT    SMWT    VERY        HRD OF/      NEVER
FAV     UNFAV       FAV        FAV      UNFAV    UNFAV     NO OPIN     HRD OF

Barack Obama
10/13        43%        52%         28%        15%           8%          43%            5%                 —
6/13          49%       47%         29%         20%         12%         35%            5%                  —

Pat McCrory
10/13        43%        44%         17%         26%          15%         29%           12%         1%
6/13          49%        32%         23%         26%         13%          19%           18%         1%

Now, please tell me whether you approve or disapprove of …

Total       Total               Strong      Smwt        Smwt      Strong         Don’t
Approve    Disapprove    Approve   Approve    Disapp.    Disapp        Know

… the job Barack Obama is doing as President of the United States.
10/13       44%          53%                 25%         19%            9%           43%            3%
5/13         46%          51%                  29%        17%             9%          42%            3%

… the job that Pat McCrory is doing as Governor of North Carolina.
10/13        46%         44%                  17%        29%            13%          30%           10%
5/13          54%          29%                 23%        31%            10%           19%           17%

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

Crosstabs here.

This poll of 600 registered voters in North Carolina was conducted October 20-24, 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.