Few issues have broad support among Floridians, but a majority of voters agreed on a need to raise the minimum wage and provide illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, according to a new Florida Decides Statewide Poll released Tuesday.
The poll surveyed voters in the week after the Florida Primary, Aug. 27 to Aug. 31.
The Graham Center for Public Service conducted the poll among over 800 likely voters on issues ranging from the Affordable Care Act to same-sex marriage to minimum wage.
Many Floridians are still not fans of Obamacare, with over 37 percent wanting the law repealed completely. Some 45 percent want to keep the law with either major or minor changes to it.
Floridians are somewhat split on whether to expand Medicaid, with 37 percent wanting the program left the way it is, and almost 34 percent wanting the program expanded.
Only two issues saw a majority of support among voters. Fifty-three percent of likely voters want federal immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Also, 57 percent of likely voters support an increase in the minimum wage.
The telephone survey of 814 registered Florida voters -- all likely to vote in the November election -- was conducted Aug. 27-31 for the Tampa Bay Times, Bay News 9 and News 13 by the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service and Bureau of Economic and Business Research. The poll, which included respondents using land-lines and cell phones, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. Results were weighted by age, party identification and media market, thus allowing the results to mirror the distribution of age groups, party identification and media market in the Florida Voter File.
Florida Decides Poll
1. What would you like to see Congress do with the Affordable Care Act?
2. Do you favor expanding Medicaid coverage, leaving it as is, or haven't thought much about this?
3. Do you support federal immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship?
4. Would you support overturning Florida's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage?
5. Do you support or oppose increasing the minimum wage in Florida?
