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

Terry Branstad as governor Feb-17 47 44 9

Joni Ernst as U.S. senator Feb-17 48 37 15

Chuck Grassley as U.S. senator Feb-17 54 37 9

Kim Reynolds as lieutenant governor Feb-17 44 24 32
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

I'm going to mention the names of some people who are possible candidates for statewide office. For each name
I read, please tell me if your feelings toward the person are very favorable, mostly favorable, mostly
unfavorable, or very unfavorable. If you dont know the person, just say so. (Record dont know as not
sure. Rotate list.).
Net Net Very Mostly Mostly Very Not
Favorable Unfavorable Favorable Favorable Unfavorable Unfavorable Sure

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 Ron Corbett, Republican
Feb-17 17 10 6 11 6 3 73
mayor of Cedar Rapids
Bob Vander Plaats,
Republican religious Feb-17 20 29 8 12 11 18 51
leader
Steve King, Republican
congressman from Feb-17 32 34 12 19 10 24 34
Iowas 4th district
Todd Pritchard,
Democratic member of
Feb-17 21 8 5 16 5 3 71
the Iowa House of
Representatives

Rich Leopold,
Democratic former head
Feb-17 23 10 6 17 6 4 67
of the Iowa Department
of Natural Resources
Kim Reynolds,
Republican lieutenant Feb-17 44 24 14 30 14 10 32
governor
Andy McGuire, former
chair of the Iowa Feb-17 20 11 4 15 7 5 69
Democratic Party

Here are some specific issues that may be debated in the Iowa Legislature this year. For each, please tell me
if you favor or oppose the initiative. (Rotate list, but recreational marijuana must always follow medical
marijuana.)
Not
Favor Oppose Sure

Require a government-issued ID in order to vote Feb-17 69 28 3

Feb-17 53 41 6
Ban the use of automated traffic enforcement cameras
Legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes in
Feb-17
Iowa 80 17 3
Legalize the use of marijuana for recreational purposes
Feb-17
in Iowa 39 57 4
Make it legal to own machine guns manufactured before
Feb-17 21 74 5
1986
Create a stand your ground law, allowing Iowans to
use deadly force when reasonable without having to Feb-17 54 36 10
retreat first
Allow law enforcement officers to pull over a vehicle
Feb-17
when they see the driver texting 88 10 1
Legalize fireworks Feb-17 65 29 7

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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

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

The Iowa legislature may consider changes to Iowa law that would help parents of school-age children pay costs for non-
public schools or homeschooling for grades K through 12. The money would come from money normally allocated to
public schools. Do you favor or oppose this change?
35 Favor
58 Oppose
7 Not sure

Starting last April, Iowa hired three private companies to run its Medicaid program, which provides health coverage to
about 600,000 poor or disabled Iowans. Do you believe the shift to private management of Medicaid has been a good
change, a bad change, or are you not sure?
13 Good change
33 Bad change
54 Not sure

Turning to some national issues, do you think the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has been mostly a
success or mostly a failure?
Mostly a success Mostly a failure Not sure

Feb-17 45 46 9

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 Im going to mention some elements of Obamacare. For each, please tell me if this is something you think should be
repealed, or something that should be left as is. (Rotate list.)
Not
Repealed Left as is Sure

Subsidies to moderate-income earners to help pay the cost of premiums 31 59 10

A requirement that insurance companies cannot deny coverage to anyone based on a
pre-existing condition 10 87 3
A requirement that all Americans have health insurance coverage or pay a penalty
that increases over time 59 36 4
A requirement that insurance companies allow parents to keep their children on their
policies until age 26 18 79 2
Medicaid expansion to cover more poor adults 20 71 9

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

On a different topic, what would be your favorite major league baseball team? (Let respondent volunteer.)
Kansas New
Chicago Minnesota City St. Louis York Milwaukee Chicago Other No Not Not interested in
Cubs Twins Royals Cardinals Yankees Brewers White Sox teams favorites Sure baseball (1993)

Feb-17 37 7 5 6 4 1 2 11 24 3 n/a

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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