Questions - Secession - September 23-24, 2013
25% Favor D.C. Statehood
17% Would Vote to Secede and Form New State
63% Believe Most Americans Want Government to Have Less Power and Money
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National
Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted September 23-24, 2013
By Rasmussen Reports
1*
Generally speaking, do most politicians want the government to have more power
and money than it does today or less power and money than it does today?
2*
Do most Americans want the government to have more power and money than it does
today or less power and money than it does today
3*
Do individual states have the right to leave the United States and form an
independent country?
4*
Do sections of individual states have the right to secede and form a new state?
5*
If you could vote on the issue, would you vote for your state to remain as is or
for your section of the state to secede and form a new state?
6* Over the next
25 years or so, how likely is it that some states will break up into more than
one state?
7* Would it be
good or bad for the United States to add more states, or would it have no
impact?
8*
The U.S. Constitution designates the nation’s
capital, Washington, D.C., as a federal district and not a state.
Should Washington, D.C. be a state?
9*
Should Puerto Rico be a state?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
