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Research & Outreach > Center for the Study of Politics and Governance > Elections Projects > Polling Archives > Minnesota Poll Archive

Policy

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Business

* Business Conditions in the Country

* Government Regulations

* Business Development

Business Conditions in the Country

"Now turning to business conditions in the country as a whole, do you think that during the next 12 months we will have good times financially, or bad times or what?"

Date	Good times	Bad times	Mixed	No opinion	Sample	MoE
August 20-25, 2002	31%	36%	25%	8%	819	± 3.4
October 8-10, 2001	26%	44%	21%	9%	727	± 3.6

Government Regulations

"I'm going to read you some pairs of statements that will help us understand how you feel about a number of things. As I read each pair, tell me which statements comes closest to how you feel.) Government regulation of business is necessary to protect the public interest or government regulation of business usually does more harm than good."

Date	Regulation is necessary	Regulation does more harm than good	No opinion	Sample	MoE
July 19-24, 2004	51%	40%	9%	1030	± 3.0

Business Development

"Do you approve or disapprove of the city using public money for downtown development projects such as Lawson Software and the Xcel Energy Center?" #

Date	Approve	Disapprove	No opinion	Sample	MoE
September 20-25, 2001	55%	38%	7%	664 LV	± 3.8

# Poll of St. Paul residents only.

"Do you approve or disapprove of the city using public money for downtown development projects such as a Target store and Block E?" #

Date	Approve	Disapprove	No opinion	Sample	MoE
September 16-19, 2001	41%	54%	5%	616 LV	± 3.9

# Poll of Minneapolis residents only.

"Next some questions of a different type about the Mall of America … Have you ever been to the Mall of America?"

Date	Yes	No	No opinion	Sample	MoE
June 20-24, 2002	89%	11%	0%	812	± 3.4

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