Four more state legislative district polls were released this week in competitive legislative districts — and as a whole, continue to portray a difficult year for Democratic candidates. On Monday, Civitas released results for HD 4, an open seat in Duplin and Onslow counties, rated as a neutral district on the NCPI. Republican Jimmy Dixon [...]
- Aug23
Civitas Poll Luncheon This Wednesday
Interested in learning what Independent voters think? Join us this Wednesday, August 25 to hear the responses from a group that may play major role in November. This month’s featured speakers include Civitas Executive Director, Francis DeLuca and Senior Polling Analyst, Chris Hayes. The Civitas Monthly Poll Luncheon is held at the Raleigh Clarion Hotel [...]
- Aug18
HD 112: Hager (R) 46% – Proctor (D) 36%
In the race to replace the retiring Rep. Bob England (D-Rutherford) in House District 112, Republican Mike Hager leads Democrat Jim Proctor 46%-36% according to the latest Civitas Poll of that district. The district consisting of Rutherford and a portion of Cleveland county is an R+7 district on the NCPI. Many people have theorized that [...]
- Aug12
Even More Whining About Civitas Polling
Another day, another story on some politician whining about Civitas polling. Today’s whiner is Rep. Bill Owens (D-Pasquotank) who tells The Daily Advance that our questions are “slanted”. Here are the questions and results from the poll Civitas conducted in his district. I challenge Rep. Owens to tell us which one of these questions he [...]
- Aug05
District Polling and Race
Apparently some Democrats are unhappy with the district polling we’re putting out the past few months, and according to NC SPIN’s newsletter are questioning the results by saying we are “undersampling minority and young voters.” Well, this is just sour grapes on their part as they search for any explanation for their poor standing in [...]
- Aug04
Civitas District polling wrap-up
Several district polls were released this week detailing state races in eastern North Carolina. You can check out the full details of all three here: Senate 1 (Beaufort, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Pasquotank, Tyrrell, and Washington counties): Sen. Marc Basnight leads Republican opponent Hood Richardson 49-39 percent. House 1 (Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, and Tyrell counties): [...]
- Aug02
November is Coming Conference Hits Big Over the Weekend
This past weekend’s November is Coming Conference educated and trained over 70 people! North Carolina residents from around the state gathered in Asheville to participate in Get out the Vote, New Media and Spotting Voter Fraud training. The Conference also featured informational breakout sessions covering NC Tax Burden, a Legislative Recap and Exploring the Death [...]
- 5Jul23
Oh Fitzy…
I try not to respond to most inane ramblings by Chris Fitzsimon over at the NC Justice Center, but since he’s decided to distort the truth and omit critical pieces of information about our polling, I figured it was time. Fitzsimon has been a bit flustered the past few months that we at Civitas do [...]
- Jul21
WRAL/SUSA Poll Explores Cell Phone Only Polling
WRAL released a new statewide poll last week conducted by SurveyUSA which included in its sample, respondents that are believed to be “Cell Phone Only” (CPO) voters. And the findings of the behaviors and impacts on including these voters is rather surprising. Full results of poll here. According to best estimates, somewhere between 20-25% of [...]
- Jul09
Legislative District Polling from This Week
In case you missed any of our press releases on this week’s polling of competitive state House and Senate districts links are below: SD 19: Republican Wesley Meredith leads Democratic Senator Margaret Dickson 42%-38%. HD 51: Republican Mike Stone leads Democratic Representative Jimmy Love 47%-43%. HD 25: Republican Jeff Collins leads Democratic Representative Randy Stewart [...]
- Jun25
District Polling Roundup
In case you missed any of our releases on state legislative polling (you can sign up here), here’s the rundown from this week: In HD 116 (Buncombe County), a rematch from 2008, Republican Tim Moffitt leads Democratic incumbent Jane Whilden 45-38. HD 103 (Mecklenburg County) is an open seat to replace the retiring Republican Representative [...]
- Jun03
64% Favor Arizona Immigration Law
Sixty-four percent of North Carolina voters favor the new law in Arizona which tracks federal law and allows local law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants for being in the state illegally according to new Civitas poll results. Twenty-five percent said they oppose it, and 11 percent said they were not sure. As the debate continues [...]
- Jun02
Over Half of NC Voters Support Offshore Drilling
A recent Civitas poll finds that 56 percent of North Carolina voters support drilling off the state’s coast for oil and natural gas. Thirty-seven percent were opposed and 7 percent had no opinion. Support for oil exploration off the coast has remained consistently strong in Civitas polling results. The May 2009 poll found 71 percent [...]
- May25
Collecting DNA from Felons
One of the seemingly more interesting bills making its way through the General Assembly this week is HB 1403, sponsored by Reps. Wil Neumann (R-Gaston), Pearl Burris-Floyd (R-Gaston), Darrell McCormick (R-Yadkin) and Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) which would allow for a DNA sample to be taken from every person arrested on a felony charge. I’m not [...]
- Apr22
Obama Favorability Turns Negative
While other polls had his job approval turning negative a few months ago, it wasn’t until this month, after the passage of the health care bill, that President Obama’s personal favorability rating among North Carolina voters turned negative as well — checking in this month at 44% favorable, 45% unfavorable for a net -1 favorability [...]
- Mar22
Support for “Reform” Does Not Equal Support for Obamacare
There were many media outlets over the weekend touting the results of an Elon University poll (and I use the term poll very lightly, see my real thoughts on it here) that showed that 78 percent of North Carolinians supported reforming the health care system. Somehow, media members took that to mean that 78 percent [...]
- Mar03
Tiger Woods More Popular than Bev Perdue
I know, it’s a running joke, right… But according to a new poll by ABC News, Tiger Woods’ favorable rating is higher than that of our own Gov. Bev Perdue. In a basic measure of popularity, just 39 percent express a favorable opinion of Woods overall, essentially unchanged from its level just before his apology [...]
- Mar02
Privatizing ABC Faces Deep Divides
In our poll this month, we once again tested voters’ opinion on privatizing the ABC system of government-run liquor stores. While we found increased support for privatization, some very deep divides emerged in the crosstabs that present some fairly large hurdles for privatization advocates to overcome. While privatizing was supported by 47% of North Carolinians [...]
- Feb03
“Jobs Governor”? Only 12% Think So.
In our poll this month, we asked voters if Gov. Bev Perdue nicknaming herself as the “Jobs Governor” was an appropriate title for the Governor given her first year in office. Only 12% of voters said yes. 68 percent said no. As for her favorability rating this month it comes in at a -5 (43% [...]
- 1Feb02
Obama Favorable Up in January
NC voters’ opinion of Pres. Barack Obama inched up in January and now is at 52% favorable, 37% unfavorable or a +15 spread, the widest its been since the beginning of the health care debate last summer. Obama’s favorability rating basically fell off a cliff once the health care reform measure was launched last July [...]