Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for November 6, 2023
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November 6, 2023: Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters believe that colleges have been too lenient in criticizing professors who support Hamas and attack Israel. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 20% of voters believe colleges have been too harsh in criticizing these professors
The survey also found that just 14% of voters have been very closely following recent news about protests on college campuses related to the Middle East.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on October 23-24, 2023. 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 +/- 3.1 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
Have leading colleges and universities been too harsh in criticizing professors who support Hamas and attack Israel or too lenient in criticizing them?
- 7%-Much too harsh
- 13%-Somewhat too harsh
- 13%-Somewhat too lenient
- 24%-Much too lenient
- 10%-About right
- 33%-Not sure
How closely have you followed recent news stories about protests on college campuses related to the Middle East?
- 14%-Very closely
- 32%-Somewhat closely
- 31%-Not very closely
- 17%-Not at all closely
- 7%-Not sure
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