Vast Majority of Registered Voters Say Barack Obama Has Failed to Improve Transparency; Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Wins Republican Primary Poll by Double Digits
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - Jan 19, 2012) - Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, today released the results of a new nationwide survey of registered voters conducted by telephone by Harris Interactive concerning the American people's attitudes on a variety of subjects, including government corruption, Obamacare, congressional insider trading, transparency, illegal immigration, and the Republican primary campaign.
The poll shows that registered voters consider corruption to be a major problem, support illegal alien law enforcement and believe President Obama has failed to keep his campaign promise to make government more transparent to the American people. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, meanwhile, has significant national Republican support, nearly doubling the total of his closest rival, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Registered voters are evenly split on whether the Supreme Court should uphold Obamacare.
The Judicial Watch survey was conducted by Harris Interactive January 12-15, 2012. The following are the highlights. (Full survey results including crosstabs are available at www.judicialwatch.org.):
"Let the results of this poll be a lesson for all politicians. Voters want to clean up corruption in Washington. The survey also represents a clear warning for Barack Obama who has fallen short on his campaign promise to make government more open and transparent in the minds of the majority of voters. And Republicans should be worried that few Americans trust them to combat government corruption. And while the public is evenly split on key issues such as Obamacare, they remain unified in support for more and better law enforcement in the area of illegal immigration," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
To review the Judicial Watch-Harris Interactive survey results please visit www.judicialwatch.org.
Methodology
This study was conducted January 12-15, 2012, by Harris Interactive via telephone landline and cell phone on behalf of Judicial Watch. The survey was conducted among a nationwide cross-section of 871 Registered Voters; 686 interviews were from the landline sample and 185 interviews from the cell phone sample. The sampling error is +/-3.5 percent.
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