About the Poll About the Poll
The Washington Poll is a non-partisan, academic survey research project
sponsored by the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race &
Sexuality (WISER), a research center at the University of Washington in the
School of Social Sciences. Dr. Matt Barreto, an Associate Professor of
Political Science is the Director of WISER and a principal investigator on
this survey.
The survey was administered by telephone, by the Washington Survey
Research Center at the UW, based on a randomly selected list of phone
numbers using a list of registered voters. The survey was in the field from
October 14 – 26, 2009. A total of 724 registered voters throughout the state
of Washington were interviewed, yielding in a 3.6% margin of error.
Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
2009 Initiative 1033 :
Additional Demographic Cross-tabulations
| Read Across > | Yes | No | Undee. |
| Female | 34% | 48% | 18% |
| Male | 49% | 44% | 7% |
| Liberal | 20% | 65% | 15% |
| Moderate | 36% | 54% | 10% |
| Conservative | 67% | 22% | 11% |
| No College | 43% | 42% | 15% |
| College Degree | 41% | 50% | 9% |
| 18-40 | 39% | 43% | 18% |
| 41-64 | 42% | 47% | 11% |
| 65+ | 42% | 48% | 10% |
Statewide sample = 724 registered voters, +/- 3.6%
Approval Ratings Approval Ratings – 2009
| Obama | Gregoire | State Leg | Congress | |
| Strongly Approve | 20% | 17% | 15% | 18% |
| Somewhat Approve | 32% | 31% | 33% | 29% |
| Somewhat Disapprove | 17% | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Strongly Disapprove | 23% | 26% | 24% | 26% |
| Don’t Know | 7% | 8% | 8% | 8% |
2009 sample = 724 registered voters, +/- 3.6%