SurveyUSAWRAL News Poll, April 2016 · Apr 8–11, 2016 · US: North Carolina
Verification note. Percentages, sample size and margin of error from the surviving WRAL write-up; the linked SurveyUSA topline PDF is dead (404) and Wayback was rate-limiting all session, so no verbatim wording could be recovered and every item below is flagged non-verbatim. FIELD DATES ARE DERIVED, NOT PUBLISHED: the article says the poll was conducted 'Friday to Monday' and is dated April 12, 2016, which places the field period on April 8-11, 2016; that inference is recorded here rather than a published range. Value of the record: fielded about two weeks after HB2 was signed, and it shows the split that defined the whole episode - a majority disapproved of HB2 overall while a majority simultaneously endorsed its central bathroom rule.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
[Paraphrase - approve or disapprove of HB2]
Wording reconstructed from: WRAL News write-up, April 12, 2016; the SurveyUSA topline that carried the administered wording is no longer retrievable
Wording notes: administered wording unknown
unclear — wording not recoverable
[Paraphrase - agree or disagree that transgender people should use the bathroom that matches the gender listed on their birth certificates, asked on a strongly/somewhat scale]
Wording reconstructed from: WRAL News write-up, April 12, 2016
Wording notes: administered wording unknown | agree/disagree format is vulnerable to acquiescence bias
unclear — wording not recoverable; the 56/34 result sitting beside 50% disapproval of the law containing that same rule is the finding worth keeping
[Paraphrase - whether the law should be repealed completely, kept only in its bathroom provision, changed in other ways, or left as is]
Wording reconstructed from: WRAL News write-up, April 12, 2016
Wording notes: administered wording unknown | four-way option set splits the pro-retention side across three answers
unclear — wording not recoverable; note that the four-way structure yields a 37% plurality for complete repeal, well below the 55.5% Elon recorded five months later on a two-way remain/repeal choice - the option set, not opinion change alone, accounts for part of that distance
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