THE DES MOINES REGISTER/MEDIACOM IOWA POLL

SELZER & COMPANY Study #2154

802 Iowa adults February 6-9, 2017
Margin of error: 3.5 percentage points Weighted by age and sex

POLL QUESTIONS

Totals may not add to 100% due to rounding.

Are you a resident of the state of Iowa?

100 Yes Continue
- No
Terminate
- Not sure

In general, do you think things in the nation are headed in the right direction, or have they gotten off on the wrong track?
Right Wrong Not
direction track sure

Feb-17 36 51 13

What about here in Iowa? Do you think things in the state are headed in the right direction, or have they gotten off on
the wrong track?
Right Wrong Not
direction track sure

Feb-17 42 41 18

Im going to mention some elected officials. For each, please tell me if you approve or disapprove
of the way each is handling his or her job. (Rotate list.)
Not
Approve Disapprove Sure

Donald Trump as president of the

Feb-17 42 49 9
United States
Mike Pence as vice president of the
Feb-17 48 38 13
United States

Currently, the state of Iowa funds Planned Parenthood for health services it provides excluding abortion. Do you think
the state should or should not continue to fund Planned Parenthood for non-abortion-related health services?
Should Should not Not
Continue Continue Sure

Feb-17 77 18 5

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 Do you think Iowa law should or should not be changed to allow a woman to sue the doctor who performed her
abortion, if she has emotional distress afterward?
Should be Should not Not
changed be changed sure
Feb-17 12 77 10

In 2010, Iowa voters passed a constitutional amendment to allow a three-eighths cent sales tax increase to pay for water
quality projects and outdoor recreation, but the tax was never raised. Do you favor or oppose a three-eighths cent
increase in the state sales tax to pay for such activities?
56 Favor
38 Oppose
5 Not sure

Do you agree or disagree with the executive order that President Trump signed blocking refugees and banning people
from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.?
43 Agree
51 Disagree
6 Not sure

ABOUT THE POLL

The Iowa Poll, conducted Feb. 6-9 for The Des Moines Register and Mediacom by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, is based
on telephone interviews with 802 Iowans ages 18 or older. Interviewers with Quantel Research contacted households with
randomly selected landline and cell phone numbers supplied by Survey Sampling International. Interviews were
administered in English. Responses were adjusted by age and sex to reflect the general population based on recent census
data.

Questions based on the sample of 802 Iowa adults have a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage
points. This means that if this survey were repeated using the same questions and the same methodology, 19 times out of
20, the findings would not vary from the percentages shown here by more than plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Results based on smaller samples of respondentssuch as by gender or agehave a larger margin of error.

Republishing the copyright Iowa Poll without credit to The Des Moines Register and Mediacom is prohibited.

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