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January 06, 2007

AJC Poll

Education heads voters' wish lists, Poll for AJC shows interest in taxes and immigration, too:

Education, taxation and immigration.

Georgians identified those as the most important issues facing Gov. Sonny Perdue and the General Assembly, according to a poll done for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the eve of the legislative session's Monday kickoff.

Forty percent of voters named education as the top issue for lawmakers, when asked to name the most important concerns in a telephone poll conducted Jan. 2-4 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.

Other results from the poll include:

• 65 percent said they believe Perdue is doing a good or excellent job as governor. Only 10 percent rated his performance as poor.

• 62 percent said they favor funding for a commuter rail line between Atlanta and Athens, including stops at Emory University and in Gwinnett County.

• 58 percent said they favor a law requiring all state documents and forms to be printed only in English.

• 75 percent said they favor tax breaks for people and companies that use energy- efficient appliances and vehicles.

• 65 percent favor a proposal to change the state Constitution to require voters to show a picture ID at the polls.

• 61 percent favor a proposal to offer scholarships to special-needs children to allow them to attend the public or private school of their choice.

• 47 percent oppose a proposal to change the state Constitution to make state Supreme Court races partisan contests, rather than non-partisan. Only 28 percent said they support partisan races, while 25 percent said they weren't sure.

Posted by Mel at January 6, 2007 09:55 PM

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