58% Say U.S. Needs New Campaign Finance Laws
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Most Americans, regardless of political affiliation, think the country needs more campaign finance laws but a plurality still opposes public financing of presidential elections. They're evenly divided over whether incumbents should be banned from receiving campaign contributions of any kind.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of adults now say the country needs new campaign laws, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. That's a marked increase from three years ago . Now only 33% think it's enough to just enforce the laws we already have. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
The survey of 1,000 American Adults nationwide was conducted on January 18-19, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .