US Opinion of Presidential Election Process

Good thing or bad thing?

	Good	Neither	Bad
The nominations are determined by a series of state primaries and caucuses	57%	26%	16%
The caucuses and primaries begin in January of the election year	49%	27%	22%
The parties’ 2008 nominees for president will probably be known by early February	45%	18%	36%
Iowa’s caucus and New Hampshire’s primary are always the first two contests	26%	44%	28%
The nominees are usually determined before many states have held their primary or caucus	11%	17%	71%

Source: Gallup / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,008 American adults, conducted from Dec. 10 to Dec. 13, 2007. Margin of error is 3 per cent.