Features Tennesseans’ views on national, international, local issues
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 20, 2007
EDITORIAL CONTACTS:
Dr. Ken Blake, 615-210-6187 (kblake@mtsu.edu)
Dr. Robert Wyatt, 615-477-8389 (rwyatt@mtsu.edu)
(MURFREESBORO)—The Spring 2007 MTSU Poll, featuring Tennesseans’ views on the state’s options on lottery scholarship surplus dollars as well as national issues including the 2008 slate of presidential hopefuls, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and escalating tensions in Iran, the minimum-wage and tobacco issues including workplace smoking and higher cigarette taxes, is now available at the poll’s Web site, www.mtsusurveygroup.org.In just three of the poll’s hottest topics:
- respondents give Democratic presidential candidates better ratings than their GOP counterparts and fewer identify themselves as “Republican”;
- most of those polled favor boosting the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour; and
- support for a plan to ban workplace smoking is divided evenly—and chiefly along tobacco-use lines.
Details and appendices are available at the Web site. For Tennessee public opinion data from 1998 to the present, visit www.mtsusurveygroup.org, home of the twice-annual MTSU Poll, a project of the MTSU Office of Communication Research. The OCR is a division of MTSU’s College of Mass Communication.
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