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SUMMARY OF FIVE FOR FLORIDA SURVEY

2012 Americans for Prosperity

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Conducted by The Tarrance Group for Americans for Prosperity-FloridaJuly 9-12, 2012

N=600 Registered likely votersMargin=+/- 4.1%

Issue Importance Series

Respondents were provided with the following list of reforms, and were asked how important each reformis to them personally. This exercise was conducted using a 10-scale, with 0 meaning the reform is not at allimportant, and 10 meaning the reform is extremely important.

Respondents rated each reform with a mean score of around 7.3-7.5. It is notable that a majorityof voters consider each reform to be extremely or very important.

Each reform has significant bi-partisan support, with the partisan differences strongest for regulatory and tax reform. It should also be noted that Democrats (40%) are significantly more

likely than Republicans (24%) to say that pension reform is extremely important.

Among the voters who are most concerned with education, 45% say education reform isextremely important, while 29% say it is very important (combined 74%).

MeanScore

ExtremelyImportant %

VeryImportant %

SomewhatImportant %

Not At AllImportant %

Reforming public education togive more choices to parents 7.53 38% 31% 20% 9%

Reforming how government

regulates and issues permits to businesses to make doing business in Florida easier

7.40 29% 36% 25% 7%

Reforming the FloridaRetirement System pension fundto preserve it for future retirees

7.31 33% 34% 20% 11%

Reforming how Floridagovernment awards state

contracts to outside businessesto make it more transparent for

Florida citizens

7.29 31% 33% 26% 8%

Reforming the state corporatetax system to make it more fair 7.26 33% 32% 21% 11%


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The table below shows the combined extremely/very important scores by party:

% Extremely/Very ImportantAll Voters Republican Democrat Independent

Reforming the state corporate tax system tomake it more fair 65% 59% 69% 68%

Reforming how Florida government awardsstate contracts to outside businesses to make

it more transparent for Florida citizens63% 61% 62% 69%

Reforming the Florida Retirement System pension fund to preserve it for future retirees 67% 63% 69% 69%

Reforming public education to give morechoices to parents 69% 68% 68% 74%

Reforming how government regulates andissues permits to businesses to make doing

business in Florida easier 65% 75% 52% 76%

Support or Oppose Reform Proposals

Respondents were presented with several reform proposals, and were asked if they support or oppose each proposal:

A majority of voters support all proposals and the support is bi-partisan.

Support Unsure/Neither Oppose

Making all state government contracts public and posting them online for allFloridians to read 92% 2% 6%

Requiring local governments in Florida to post online for the public how longit takes them to approve permits, licensing and inspections for businesses 84% 6% 11%

Making sure state government does not decide which businesses succeed, andwhich businesses fail 74% 6% 20%

Reducing the number of government rules and regulations for opening a new business in Florida 73% 4% 23%

Changing the public pension system for new state and local governmentworkers to a defined contributions plan, similar to the 401k plans that some

private companies offer their employees70% 9% 22%

Making sure that charter schools receive the same amount of funding per student as traditional public schools 62% 5% 33%

Providing more choices for parents who do not want to take the traditional public school path 61% 6% 33%

Allowing parent trigger laws that allow parents to turn around their childsfailing public schools

58% 23% 19%

Providing vouchers to parents of public school students so they could sendtheir child to a private or religious school 57% 2% 41%


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The table below shows support for each proposal by partisanship:

% SupportGOP DEM IND

Making all state government contracts public and posting them online for allFloridians to read 92% 91% 93%

Requiring local governments in Florida to post online for the public how long ittakes them to approve permits, licensing and inspections for businesses 83% 84% 86%

Making sure state government does not decide which businesses succeed, andwhich businesses fail

79% 69% 75%

Reducing the number of government rules and regulations for opening a new business in Florida 84% 62% 70%

Changing the public pension system for new state and local government workers toa defined contributions plan, similar to the 401k plans that some private companies

offer their employees82% 59% 66%

Making sure that charter schools receive the same amount of funding per student as

traditional public schools68% 54% 64%

Providing more choices for parents who do not want to take the traditional publicschool path

68% 55% 62%

Allowing parent trigger laws that allow parents to turn around their childsfailing public schools 60% 55% 59%

Providing vouchers to parents of public school students so they could send their child to a private or religious school

68% 44% 59%

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