Public Policy PollingPPP North Carolina survey, August 2016 ('North Carolina Races Tight Across The Board') · Aug 5–7, 2016 · US: North Carolina
Verification note. FULLY RESOLVED. The release PDF was located by pattern-matching PPP's own filename convention (PPP_Release_NC_<mmddyy>.pdf) and downloading directly with curl, which bypasses the Cloudflare challenge on the release page. VERBATIM METHODOLOGY: 'Public Policy Polling surveyed 830 likely voters from August 5th to 7th. The margin of error is +/-3.4%. 80% of participants, selected through a list based sample, responded via the phone, while 20% of respondents who did not have landlines conducted the survey over the internet through an opt-in internet panel.' This CORRECTS the previous record's IVR guess for the sample frame and supplies the n. DATE CORRECTION: the previous row carried 2016-08-01 for both field dates; the true window is August 5-7 2016. TITLE CORRECTION: the release is headlined 'North Carolina Races Tight Across The Board', not 'NC Governor's Race Remains Tied; HB2 Still Unpopular' as the previous record's poll_name had it - the figures nonetheless match this fielding exactly, so it is the right poll under a wrong title. POPULATION CORRECTION: this wave is of LIKELY voters, whereas the May wave was of registered voters, so the two are not perfectly comparable. All seven HB2-related questions are now recorded with verbatim wording and complete distributions including not-sure shares. The stored figures (30/43 support, 58/22 hurting-helping, 58/8 economy) are all confirmed, and four further items are added, including two that the previous record lacked entirely: approval of McCrory's handling of HB2 (39/47) and whether that handling makes voters more or less likely to support him (31 more likely / 43 less likely / 17 no difference).
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Do you support or oppose House Bill 2?
Wording notes: not-sure share rises to 27 percent from 21 percent in May | names the bill only by number
neutral — identical construction to the May wave, so the two are directly comparable
Do you approve or disapprove of how Governor Pat McCrory has handled HB2?
Wording notes: candidate-handling item
neutral — standard approve/disapprove with a not-sure option
Does Governor McCrory's handling of HB2 make you more or less likely to vote for him this fall, or does it not make a difference?
Wording notes: a self-reported vote-effect item, which respondents are poor at answering accurately | offers an explicit no-difference option
neutral — both directions and a no-difference option are offered
Overall, do you think HB2 is helping or hurting North Carolina?
Wording notes: directly comparable to the May wave
neutral — symmetric construction
Do you think House Bill 2 has had a positive or negative impact on the North Carolina economy, or has it not made a difference?
Wording notes: directly comparable to the May wave
neutral — symmetric three-option construction
Do you think House Bill 2 has had a positive or negative impact on North Carolina's reputation nationally, or has it not made a difference?
Wording notes: directly comparable to the May wave
neutral — symmetric three-option construction
Do you think House Bill 2 has made North Carolina safer, or not?
Wording notes: tests the bill's stated rationale; the safer share falls from 36 in May to 29 in August
neutral — direct test of the sponsors' safety claim, stated in both directions
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