From the office of Del. Rick Impallaria:
We received 804 responses out of 4454 sent, an 18% response rate, which is excellent. Thanks to all who responded.
1. Do you believe there should be term limits for elected officials?
Yes 92.6%
No 7.4%
2. If the gubernatorial election were today, would you support Governor O’Malley? If not, write in who you would support.
Yes 7.1%
No 92.9%
Robert Ehrlich 39.5%
Not Specified 32.4%
Not a Democrat 7.7%
Anyone but O’Malley 5.1%
Pat McDonough 3.9%
Rick Impallaria 1.9%
Andy Harris 1.2%
Ron Paul 0.6%
Michael Steele 0.6%
3. On a scale of 1 – 10, 10 being the highest, rank the performance of the General Assembly over the past three years (since the last election).
1 23.3%
2 25.0%
3 17.5%
4 11.2%
5 12.5%
6 4.0%
7 4.0%
8 2.5%
9 0.0%
10 0.0%
4. Do you believe that the help the government gives small business, i.e., more government control, oversight, and regulation, really helps small business?
Yes 4.4%
No 95.6%
5. The federal government has been focusing most of its time on health care. Please rank the following four topics that the federal government should be working on, in order of importance to you, with 1 being the most important and 4 being the least.
1 2 3 4
Health Care 7.6% 9.7% 14.6% 68.1%
National Security 52.1% 26.4% 12.5% 9.0%
Jobs 36.1% 41.7% 15.3% 6.9%
Energy 4.2% 22.2% 57.6% 16.0%
6. Name three areas where you think the Maryland budget should be cut.
Summary of responses: Reduce the size of government (various suggestions were made); Cut all benefits to illegal aliens; Make welfare a program to transition to employment, not to stay on continuously; Eliminate police protection of public officials; Base the budget on the prior year’s revenue, not expected revenue; Fix education (higher spending does not equate to better educated children)
7. Do you believe we should have table games as well as slots?
Yes 69.4%
No 30.6%
8. Do you think that law-abiding Maryland citizens should have the right to carry firearms, openly and/or concealed, for personal protection?
Yes 79.1%
No 20.9%
9. Do you support marriage for same-sex couples?
Yes 19.9%
No 53.8%
Other 26.3%
Note: Many people remarked that they would support civil unions granting legal rights to same-sex couples but either viewed marriage as a more religious topic one in which the state should not regulate, believe that the word marriage cannot apply to same-sex couples as the definition is a union between a man and a woman, or some other reason.
10. Do you believe that same-sex relationships should be taught in our public schools as a natural and appropriate relationship?
Yes 10.6%
No 89.4%
Note: Several people remarked there would have to be restrictions like parental consent and that it should only be taught in high schools. Also many people responded that it was not the government’s responsibility to teach kids about this, it is the parent’s.
Other Comments: Eliminate speed cameras. Legalize medical marijuana. Mandate town hall meetings for elected officials; they are now greatly out of touch with their constituents. Make gambling legal, then tax it.
I hope you enjoyed taking the survey as much as I enjoyed hearing from you.
Rick Impallaria
Delegate, District 7
Rick.Impallaria@house.state.md.us
410-841-3334
Del Impallaria:
Now, please tell us how your poll was conducted? It has no validity without this information. It appears to be a push poll to me. But, what do I know.
I look forward to your response.
Kim
Thank goodness this isn’t held to the say criterion as graduate school research courses. Del. Impallaria would receive an fat F for not providing sources and methods. But the again he’s a politician so its not needed.
Kim;
Is any poll not a push poll? I may be naive but it seems to me that the implication in the introductory paragraph states that the poll was conducted by Rick’s office. In actuality he gave us much more information than we see from a Gallup poll. The only thing missing is any data indicating what the mailing list or phone list would have been. Once again something you will never see in the major released national polls. The questions asked and repeated by Rick are leading, but I have never seen a poll that wasn’t leading in some way.
The results are however interesting. Rick, could you please let us know what data base yo used to send out the poll, for example was it your office mailing list or was it some random sampling done by a polling house.
Well since the survey results are by definition from a survey and not a poll the results are exactly as presented results of respondents to a survey. The survey was not presented as scientific.
a worthless poll that no doubt represents the view of a specifc minority in our county. tea baggers and angry arians.
1. It wasn’t a poll, it was a survey.
2. You are a homophobic race-baiter (assuming you meant Aryans, and not Arians, who were early Christians who did not believe in the Trinity).
Phil –
Too funny…Arians, Aryans, Nestorians, Trinitarians, Vegetarians heck its all the same, but for the Impallarians.
Joe
Impallarians are define by their grandstanding, being a member of the Hateriots and appealing to the lowest common denominatars in our society.
phil and joe
thanks for the sarcasm, I didn’t realize that I have misspelled the word. See if I can get it right. Impallaria is a wop and a race bater himself just like the both of you.