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Spectrum News Maine Topline and Methodology
Spectrum News Maine Topline and Methodology
NOTE: All results show percentages among all respondents, unless otherwise labeled. Reduced
bases are unweighted values.
Annotated Questionnaire:
1. To start off, what do you consider to be the biggest problem facing Maine today? Respondents
could mention up to three. List was not read aloud.
Total
COVID-19 or coronavirus 21%
The economy 13%
Unemployment 10%
The Governor/Governor’s leadership 10%
Climate change/the environment 9%
Affordable housing 8%
Healthcare 6%
Opioid or drug addiction 5%
Taxes 5%
Education 5%
Transportation and infrastructure 3%
Lack of workers 3%
Other party in power/Democrats or Republicans in power 3%
Partisanship/Divisiveness/Politicians 2%
Government spending/welfare programs 2%
Energy/CMP Corridor/Cost of energy 2%
Immigration 1%
Population decreasing/ Young people leaving/Brain drain 1%
Too much government/too much government power 1%
Homelessness 1%
Pandemic mandates (masks, vaccines) 1%
Biden/The president 1%
Vaccine hesitancy 1%
Crime or violence 1%
Gun control *
Police reform *
Something else 5%
Don’t know 8%
TOPLINE & METHODOLOGY
2. Do you approve or disapprove of how the following is handling their job as an elected official?
[IF ANSWER PROVIDED] Would you say you strongly [approve/disapprove] or somewhat
[approve/disapprove]?
3. Overall, do you approve or disapprove of how Janet Mills is handling the following? [IF ANSWER
PROVIDED] Would you say you strongly [approve/disapprove] or somewhat [approve/disapprove]?
COVID-19 Total
Strongly approve 33%
Somewhat approve 21%
Somewhat disapprove 12%
Strongly disapprove 31%
Don’t know 3%
Total Approve (net) 54%
Total Disapprove (net) 43%
4. Overall, do you support or oppose former governor Paul LePage running for governor in 2022?
[IF ANSWER PROVIDED] Would you say you strongly [support/oppose] or somewhat
[support/oppose]?
5. Overall, do you support or oppose mask requirements in the following places in Maine?
[IF ANSWER PROVIDED] Would you say you strongly [support/oppose] or somewhat
[support/oppose]?
5. Overall, do you support or oppose mask requirements in the following places in Maine? [IF
ANSWER PROVIDED] Would you say you strongly [support/oppose] or somewhat
[support/oppose]?
6. How much trust do you have in each of the following to provide you with accurate information
about coronavirus or COVID-19?
6. How much trust do you have in each of the following to provide you with accurate information
about coronavirus or COVID-19?
7. Overall, do you support or oppose the following? [IF ANSWER PROVIDED] Would you say
you strongly [support/oppose] or somewhat [support/oppose]?
CMP Corridor, sometimes called the New England Clean Energy Connect
*Data held for future release
8. How concerned, if at all, are you about rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine? Are you very
concerned, somewhat concerned, not very concerned, or not at all concerned?
*Data held for future release
TOPLINE & METHODOLOGY
9. As you may know, Maine used ranked-choice voting in the 2020 general election. Overall, would
you say you support or oppose the use of ranked-choice voting? [IF ANSWER PROVIDED] Would
you say you strongly [support/oppose] or somewhat [support/oppose]?
Total
Democrat 27%
Republican 28%
Independent 33%
None of these 11%
Don’t know/Refused 1%
11. Do you think of yourself as closer to the Democratic party or the Republican party?
Total
Base: If Democrat
(N=222)
Strong Democrat 45%
Moderate Democrat 54%
Don’t know/Refused 1%
Q13. Do you consider yourself to be a strong Republican or a moderate Republican?
Total
Base: If Republican
(N=215)
Strong Republican 45%
Moderate Republican 54%
Don’t know/Refused 1%
Q14. Do you consider yourself to be more progressive/left leaning, generally in line with, or more
centrist or conservative, than the Democratic Party??
Total
Base: If Democrat or closer to Democrat
(N=362)
More progressive/left-leaning than the Democratic Party 37%
Generally in line with the Democratic Party 33%
More centrist or conservative than the Democratic Party 24%
Other 2%
Don't Know/Refused 5%
TOPLINE & METHODOLOGY
This Spectrum News/Ipsos Maine poll was conducted via telephone on August 31- September 7,
2021.This poll is based on a representative sample of 800 registered voters of Maine, age 18 or
older. Sixty-one percent of respondents were reached on a cell phone, and 39% were reached on a
landline.
The study was conducted in English. The data were weighted to adjust for gender, age, and
educational attainment. The demographic benchmarks came from 2019 American Community
Survey (ACS) from the US Census Bureau.
The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, for
results based on the entire sample of adults. In our reporting of the findings, percentage points are
rounded off to the nearest whole number. As a result, percentages in a given table column may total
slightly higher or lower than 100%. In questions that permit multiple responses, columns may total
substantially more than 100%, depending on the number of different responses offered by each
respondent.
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