Washington Post-Pew Research Center Poll
This poll was conducted for The Washington Post and the Pew Research Center by telephone July 28 to 31, 2011, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI) of Princeton, NJ.
*= less than 0.5 percent
1. If you had to use one single word to describe your impression of the budget negotiations in Washington, what would that one word be? [IF "DON'T KNOW" PROBE ONCE: It can be anything, just the first word that comes to mind...]
Positive Neutral Negative No opinion
7/31/11 2 11 72 15
4/10/11 3 16 69 12
Unweighted word counts (all words mentioned by four or more respondents):
7/31/11
Ridiculous 66
Disgust/disgusting/disgusted 42
Stupid/stupidity 36
Frustrating/frustrated 26
Poor/poorly 25
Terrible 25
Disappointing/disappointment/disappointed 24
Childish 23
Joke 22
Mess/messy 22
Pathetic 17
Confusing 16
Crazy 14
Bad 13
Idiot/idiotic 12
Disaster/disastrous 11
Suck/sucks 11
Sad 10
Bull/bull*** 9
Chaos/chaotic 9
Disgrace/disgraceful 9
Lousy 8
Outrageous/outrage 7
Pitiful 7
Politics/political 7
Scary 7
Stink/stinks 7
Compromise 6
Difficult 5
Fair 5
Horrible 5
Juvenile 5
Ludicrous 5
Selfish 5
Stalemate 5
Complicated 5
Incapable/incompetent 5
Screwed/screwed up 5
Asinine 4
Awful 4
Concerned 4
Futile 4
Greed 4
Obama 4
Sorry 4
Stubborn 4
Unfair 4
2. As a result of the budget negotiations in Washington over the last several weeks, have you come to have a MORE favorable opinion of [INSERT] a LESS favorable opinion of [INSERT] or hasn’t your opinion of [him/them] changed?
7/31/11 – Summary table
More Less Opinion No
favorable favorable hasn’t changed opinion
a. President Barack Obama 18 37 44 2
b. Speaker of the House
John Boehner 11 34 45 9
c. Democrats in Congress 13 30 53 5
d. Republicans in Congress 11 42 44 4
e. Members of Congress affiliated
with the Tea Party movement 11 37 45 6
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