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Tennessee Survey of 500 Likely Voters                                                                          
Conducted October 23, 2006 by Rasmussen Reports                                                                      
                                                                                 
  Total Party Ideology Senate Gender Age Married Children at Home Income Employment Religious Affiliation
All Voters GOP Dem Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not Sure Corker (R) Ford (D) Other Not Sure Men Women 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ Yes No Yes No Under 20k 20k-40k 40k-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k+ Not Sure Gov't Entrepreneur Pvt Sect Retired Other Evangelical Protestant Catholic Other
Follow Foley Story Very Closely 31% 32% 37% 19% 26% 34% 41% 20% 31% 35% 25% 4% 35% 28% 10% 21% 35% 36% 44% 31% 31% 21% 35% 24% 30% 45% 30% 19% 37% 25% 18% 32% 30% 44% 24% 27% 35% 38% 30%
Somewhat Closely 40% 35% 42% 46% 41% 42% 37% 32% 34% 45% 47% 50% 41% 40% 48% 47% 44% 36% 35% 40% 41% 41% 40% 30% 40% 35% 39% 62% 43% 48% 59% 40% 41% 39% 25% 39% 42% 38% 40%
Not Very Closely 21% 24% 18% 24% 26% 16% 18% 22% 26% 16% 24% 26% 19% 24% 28% 17% 17% 25% 16% 21% 22% 29% 18% 35% 22% 18% 27% 19% 9% 8% 15% 19% 25% 12% 37% 26% 18% 13% 24%
Not at All 7% 8% 3% 10% 7% 8% 3% 0% 9% 3% 4% 20% 5% 8% 12% 15% 4% 3% 4% 7% 5% 9% 5% 11% 7% 2% 4% 0% 11% 5% 8% 6% 4% 5% 14% 8% 6% 11% 4%
Not Sure 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 26% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1% 3% 0% 0% 0% 1% 0% 1% 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 13% 0% 3% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 2%
                                                                                 
  Total Party Ideology Senate Gender Age Married Children at Home Income Employment Religious Affiliation
All Voters GOP Dem Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not Sure Corker (R) Ford (D) Other Not Sure Men Women 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ Yes No Yes No Under 20k 20k-40k 40k-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k+ Not Sure Gov't Entrepreneur Pvt Sect Retired Other Evangelical Protestant Catholic Other
GOP Leaders Handling of Foley Situation Excellent 7% 14% 1% 3% 11% 4% 1% 0% 13% 0% 9% 0% 11% 3% 3% 4% 8% 8% 7% 9% 2% 3% 8% 3% 7% 8% 9% 2% 12% 9% 2% 9% 7% 9% 4% 9% 8% 6% 2%
Good 20% 35% 9% 13% 30% 10% 14% 0% 32% 8% 28% 17% 22% 18% 24% 28% 17% 19% 15% 22% 15% 23% 19% 13% 17% 29% 25% 21% 18% 8% 14% 28% 24% 15% 17% 24% 19% 19% 16%
Fair 27% 24% 26% 36% 26% 36% 19% 0% 30% 25% 30% 27% 23% 31% 22% 34% 23% 27% 30% 28% 27% 32% 26% 31% 22% 24% 23% 40% 29% 32% 36% 21% 27% 29% 26% 30% 28% 28% 23%
Poor 33% 15% 54% 30% 20% 42% 50% 58% 12% 56% 24% 31% 35% 32% 28% 22% 37% 35% 40% 31% 40% 29% 35% 24% 39% 37% 29% 34% 33% 31% 37% 28% 35% 35% 28% 25% 36% 41% 39%
Not Sure 13% 12% 10% 18% 13% 8% 16% 42% 13% 11% 8% 25% 9% 16% 23% 11% 15% 11% 8% 11% 16% 13% 12% 29% 15% 3% 15% 3% 8% 21% 10% 15% 7% 11% 25% 12% 9% 7% 20%
                                                                                 
  Total Party Ideology Senate Gender Age Married Children at Home Income Employment Religious Affiliation
All Voters GOP Dem Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not Sure Corker (R) Ford (D) Other Not Sure Men Women 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ Yes No Yes No Under 20k 20k-40k 40k-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k+ Not Sure Gov't Entrepreneur Pvt Sect Retired Other Evangelical Protestant Catholic Other
If Foley was Dem, Would Dem Leaders Have Done Better 17% 4% 36% 8% 10% 18% 33% 27% 2% 34% 0% 8% 14% 19% 31% 8% 19% 14% 18% 16% 20% 17% 17% 29% 20% 17% 12% 13% 11% 5% 16% 14% 13% 18% 25% 15% 16% 12% 23%
Worse 20% 39% 6% 12% 36% 8% 5% 0% 38% 4% 29% 0% 29% 14% 13% 18% 25% 23% 19% 25% 9% 22% 20% 8% 21% 24% 22% 21% 26% 19% 12% 26% 26% 20% 11% 25% 21% 22% 14%
About the Same 50% 49% 43% 62% 45% 61% 43% 31% 52% 45% 71% 67% 44% 54% 36% 65% 37% 53% 53% 49% 52% 47% 51% 40% 49% 54% 41% 53% 57% 46% 60% 44% 51% 51% 43% 51% 56% 48% 40%
Not Sure 13% 8% 14% 19% 9% 13% 19% 42% 8% 17% 0% 25% 13% 13% 20% 9% 19% 10% 11% 10% 19% 14% 12% 23% 10% 4% 24% 13% 6% 30% 12% 16% 10% 10% 20% 10% 7% 17% 23%
                                                                                 
  Total Party Ideology Senate Gender Age Married Children at Home Income Employment Religious Affiliation
All Voters GOP Dem Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not Sure Corker (R) Ford (D) Other Not Sure Men Women 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ Yes No Yes No Under 20k 20k-40k 40k-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k+ Not Sure Gov't Entrepreneur Pvt Sect Retired Other Evangelical Protestant Catholic Other
Congress Having Inappropriate Staff Relationship Very common 9% 9% 12% 5% 7% 12% 10% 0% 7% 11% 20% 8% 9% 9% 10% 4% 12% 9% 11% 8% 12% 11% 8% 13% 13% 5% 9% 2% 9% 6% 14% 6% 8% 12% 7% 10% 9% 10% 8%
Somewhat common 33% 31% 30% 41% 32% 40% 22% 31% 33% 32% 30% 37% 30% 36% 47% 37% 24% 33% 26% 31% 38% 39% 31% 38% 35% 29% 31% 35% 35% 8% 36% 37% 32% 23% 43% 36% 32% 32% 30%
Not very common 29% 33% 25% 26% 33% 24% 28% 0% 32% 27% 34% 6% 31% 27% 16% 32% 27% 30% 36% 31% 24% 25% 30% 19% 29% 36% 28% 33% 32% 11% 15% 31% 31% 37% 19% 27% 28% 35% 31%
Not at All common 7% 8% 9% 5% 8% 6% 9% 6% 8% 8% 0% 3% 10% 5% 6% 9% 5% 9% 5% 9% 4% 6% 8% 6% 6% 11% 7% 4% 11% 11% 7% 5% 12% 7% 1% 6% 10% 7% 7%
Not Sure 22% 19% 24% 23% 19% 18% 30% 63% 19% 22% 17% 45% 20% 23% 20% 17% 32% 20% 22% 21% 23% 19% 23% 24% 18% 19% 24% 25% 13% 64% 27% 21% 17% 21% 31% 22% 21% 16% 23%
                                                                                 
  Total Party Ideology Senate Gender Age Married Children at Home Income Employment Religious Affiliation
All Voters GOP Dem Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not Sure Corker (R) Ford (D) Other Not Sure Men Women 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ Yes No Yes No Under 20k 20k-40k 40k-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k+ Not Sure Gov't Entrepreneur Pvt Sect Retired Other Evangelical Protestant Catholic Other
How Important is Foley Issue to Vote Very Important 9% 4% 18% 4% 6% 10% 18% 5% 4% 15% 12% 12% 6% 12% 6% 4% 14% 8% 15% 8% 12% 7% 11% 19% 10% 8% 8% 8% 4% 5% 0% 9% 9% 15% 10% 8% 7% 7% 16%
Somewhat Important 18% 15% 23% 15% 16% 24% 12% 21% 15% 23% 0% 18% 17% 19% 23% 16% 16% 18% 19% 16% 23% 20% 17% 25% 18% 23% 22% 15% 6% 11% 29% 18% 14% 16% 23% 17% 18% 19% 19%
Not Very Important 36% 35% 32% 44% 34% 36% 39% 31% 36% 35% 54% 29% 36% 36% 34% 32% 33% 39% 36% 36% 36% 31% 38% 30% 38% 34%