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Poll: Pennsylvanians opposed to card-check

A sizable majority of Pennsylvania voters oppose passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, which is quickly becoming issue No. 1 in the 2010 Senate race, according to a new poll.

The survey of 700 registered voters, conducted by the GOP firm Susquehanna Polling & Research, found 55 percent of voters opposed to the “card-check” bill and only 29 percent in favor. Forty percent were “strongly” opposed while only 15 percent were “strongly” in favor, according to the poll.

“The broad-based opposition to this legislation suggests that people don’t view the right to cast
a ‘private ballot’ as a Republican or Democrat issue, but one that is sacred to everyone,” Susquehanna pollster Jim Lee said.

Senator Arlen Specter is under intense pressure from labor activists in his new party to support the bill, which he originally sponsored but has become cooler to as the issue has become more and more politically sensitive. At a labor rally last weekend in Pittsburgh, Specter encountered hostility in the face of his resistance to the legislation.

The poll, conducted late last month, had a margin of error of 3.7 percent.

Click here for the full poll.

June 9, 2009 at 4:33 pm

--Dan Hirschhorn

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  1. David Diano

    Jun 9th, 2009

    Wow. What deceptive, loaded, leading and misleading poll questions.

    “effectively ends the ability of employees to hold private ballot elections”

    “violates the long standing tradition of the private ballot and will lead to more job losses in this recession due to the additional burdens on employers”

    ZERO questions on the pro card check merits. Nothing about how employers coerce employees to prevent unions.

    I’m sure the Unions or the Dems could run a similarly biased poll to show equally lopsided support for their side.

    The GOP is putting all it’s eggs in one basket with the “private ballot” issue. The compromise bill is going to solve it (one proposal involved a mail-in ballot equivalent to a normal voting absentee ballot). Once this is “fixed”, they lose their talking point.

  2. Brian Kline

    Jun 10th, 2009

    I think those numbers reflect wishful thinking among Republicans. Maybe I could believe them coming from a right-to-work sunbelt state, but not PA.

  3. Moe Lane » Quinnipiac: Specter/Toomey 45/44. [UPDATED]

    Jul 22nd, 2009

    [...] think those numbers are bad, wait until Specter caves on card check to appease his new owners.  His constituents are purely going to hate [...]

  4. Quinnipiac: Specter/Toomey 45/44. [UPDATED.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState web01.prod.theplanet.eaglepub.com 174.120.27.221

    Aug 13th, 2009

    [...] think those numbers are bad, wait until Specter caves on card check to appease his new owners.  His constituents are purely going to hate [...]

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