Civitas Poll Looks at Obama, McCrory Ratings

Feb. 3, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Francis De Luca (919) 834-2099     Francis.DeLuca@nccivitas.org

RALEIGH – The latest Civitas Poll provides insights on how North Carolina voters view President Obama and Gov. Pat McCrory. The poll of 600 registered North Carolina voters was conducted Jan. 23 and 25-26, and has an error margin of plus/minus 4 percent.

Text of questions:*

Favorability ratings

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          HD OF

Barack Obama

1/14    46%     50%              27%     19%                 9%       42%                 3%                   —

10/13  43%     52%               28%     15%                 8%       43%                 5%                   —

6/13    49%     47%               29%     20%                 12%     35%                 5%                   —

 

Pat McCrory

1/14    43%     44%                 18%     25%                 15%     28%                 11%                 2%

10/13  43%     44%                 17%     26%                 15%     29%                 12%                 1%

6/13    49%     32%                 23%     26%                 13%     19%                 18%                 1%

Job approval

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

Total    Total             Strong   Smwt          Smwt    Strong             Don’t

              App.    Disapp.           App      App.          Disapp.   Disapp            Know

 

… the job Barack Obama is doing as President of the United States?

1/14      45%     52%                 25%      19%                10%         42%                 3%

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?

1/14      48%     42%                 17%     31%                  16%         26%                 9%

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 Jan. 23 and 25-26, 2014 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.