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Elon University Poll
Elon University Poll, October 2016 · Sep 27–30, 2016 · US: North Carolina
Methodology
- Pollster
- Elon University Poll academic
- Sponsor
- Elon University
- Fielded
- Sep 27–30, 2016
- Population
- likely voters
- Sample size
- 660
- Sample frame
- unknown
- Mode
- telephone - live interviewer, cell phone and landline
- Margin of error
- +/- 3.81
- Weighting
- raking on age, race, sex and registered party identification
- Geography
- US: North Carolina
- Base notes
- 799 registered voters interviewed; 660 classified as likely voters and reported
Sources
Verification note. Wording, toplines and party/race/sex crosstabs read directly from the Elon Poll full report PDF (text extracted locally). Note the shift in question form from support/oppose (September) to remain/repeal (October), which produced a markedly larger anti-HB2 number two weeks later. || Topline read from the Elon University Poll release page. Full verbatim question stem could not be isolated from the release narrative - only the descriptive clause was recoverable, so question_text_verbatim is false. No party crosstab published for this item. || Topline read from the Elon University Poll release page. Full verbatim stem could not be isolated from the release narrative - only the descriptive clause was recoverable, so question_text_verbatim is false. No party crosstab published for this item.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
whether HB2 should be repealed
Do you think HB2, also known as the Bathroom Bill, should remain a law or be repealed?
Be Repealed
55.5%
Remain A Law
33.8%
Something Else (Don't Read)
1.6%
Don't Know
8.4%
Refused (Don't Read)
0.7%
Wording notes: identifies the law as 'the Bathroom Bill' | no description of the law's content
neutral — remain/repeal alternatives are symmetric; the 'Bathroom Bill' label is the common local shorthand but is a critics' coinage, so it carries some negative valence
Subgroup figures (14)
repeal of HB2
[whether] the law, which requires people to use the public bathroom in North Carolina that matches the gender on their birth certificate, should be repealed [or should remain a law]
Wording reconstructed from: Elon University Poll release, October 4, 2016 - release narrative paraphrases the stem; the descriptive clause is quoted as published, but the full interviewer-read question was not recoverable from the release page.
Should be repealed
55.5%
Should remain a law
34%
Wording notes: describes HB2 by its birth-certificate bathroom requirement
unclear — Cannot assess slant reliably because the full verbatim stem was not recovered; the descriptive clause itself is factually accurate and non-evaluative.