Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025: Fifty percent (50%) of voters say tariffs on China will be bad for the U.S. economy. A Napolitan News Service national survey conducted by RMG Research found that more voters, 60% think it will be bad for China’s economy.
The survey also found 34% of voters have followed recent news stories about tariffs very closely.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on February 3-4, 2025. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Scott Rasmussen is the president of RMG Research, Inc.
Survey questions
If the United States imposes tariffs on China, will that be good or bad for the U.S. economy?
- 13%-Very good
- 24%-Somewhat good
- 27%-Somewhat bad
- 23%-Very bad
- 13%-Not sure
Okay, if the United States imposes tariffs on China, will that be good or bad for China’s economy?
- 6%-Very good
- 14%-Somewhat good
- 42%-Somewhat bad
- 18%-Very bad
- 19%-Not sure
How closely have you followed recent news stories about tariffs?
- 34%-Very closely
- 42%-Somewhat closely
- 15%-Not very closely
- 7%-Not at all closely
- 2%-Not sure
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