Monday, May 24, 2010

Polling on the Civil Rights Act

After Rand Paul's comments last week about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 I thought it would be interesting to ask Republican primary voters in South Carolina, since we were polling there over the weekend, what their opinion on the bill was.

58% said they supported it, 15% said they opposed it, and 27% said they weren't sure.

I don't really know what to make of those numbers. The 58% in support of the Civil Rights Act is at least a lot higher than the 36% of Republicans we found nationally last year who believed Barack Obama was born in the United States or the 27% who think Obama genuinely won the 2008 election (rather than it was stolen by ACORN.)

Still 58% seems like a pretty low level of support to me for something as elementary as the Civil Rights Act. What do you think?

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