Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for January 16, 2022
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
January 16, 2022: Eighty-eight percent (88%) of voters have a favorable view of Martin Luther King, Jr., including 54% who have a very favorable view. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 92% have a favorable opinion of Abraham Lincoln, 85% of George Washington, and 82% of Thomas Jefferson.
The survey also found that 28% of voters say that MLK Day is one of our nation’s most important holidays, and 19% will do something to celebrate it.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on January 10-12, 2022. Field work 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 +/- 2.8 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Survey Questions
Please let me know if you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following:
Martin Luther King Jr.
- 54%-Very favorable
- 34%-Somewhat favorable
- 4%-Somewhat unfavorable
- 2%-Very unfavorable
- 0%-Never heard of him
- 5%-Not sure
George Washington
- 49%-Very favorable
- 36%-Somewhat favorable
- 5%-Somewhat unfavorable
- 3%-Very unfavorable
- 0%-Never heard of him
- 7%-Not sure
Thomas Jefferson
- 42%-Very favorable
- 40%-Somewhat favorable
- 6%-Somewhat unfavorable
- 3%-Very unfavorable
- 0%-Never heard of him
- 8%-Not sure
Abraham Lincoln
- 62%-Very favorable
- 30%-Somewhat favorable
- 3%-Somewhat unfavorable
- 2%-Very unfavorable
- 0%-Never heard of him
- 4%-Not sure
On a different topic, is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday one of our nation’s most important holidays, least important, or somewhere in between?
- 28%-Most important
- 15%-Least important
- 53%-Somewhere in between
- 4%-Not sure
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