probability RDD
Elon University Poll
Elon University Poll, April 2017 · Apr 18–21, 2017 · US: North Carolina
Methodology
- Pollster
- Elon University Poll academic
- Sponsor
- Elon University
- Fielded
- Apr 18–21, 2017
- Population
- likely voters
- Sample size
- 506
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - live-caller, dual frame (landline and cell phone)
- Margin of error
- ±4.36 percentage points
- Geography
- US: North Carolina
- Base notes
- 506 North Carolina registered voters classified as likely voters
Sources
Verification note. Wording, toplines and party breaks read from the Elon University Poll release for the April 2017 fielding. This poll was in the field roughly three weeks after HB142 partially repealed HB2, and the item explicitly notes the repeal. This is the only HB2-related item in that release - no direct transgender policy question was asked.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
post-repeal perception of HB2's effect on North Carolina's national reputation
The national reputation of North Carolina is [worse/about the same/better] since it began making headlines for its passage last year of House Bill 2, the so-called 'bathroom bill' that has since been repealed.
Worse
65%
About the same
24%
Better
7%
Wording notes: uses the media shorthand 'bathroom bill' in scare quotes | states as fact that the law 'has since been repealed' - HB142 was a partial repeal that retained state preemption | asks about reputation rather than the policy itself
neutral — Symmetric three-point response set on a reputational judgment. The characterization of HB2 as simply 'repealed' oversimplifies HB142, which preserved preemption of local nondiscrimination ordinances until 2020, but that inaccuracy does not push the answer in either direction on the reputation question.
Subgroup figures (4)