November 18, 2022: Sixty percent (60%) of voters believe that the primary purpose of the U.S. military should be deterring others from attacking the United States. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that Fighting and winning wars abroad (8%) and Securing the borders of the United States (8%) came a distant second and third, followed by Peacekeeping missions overseas (7%), Fighting extremism (5%), Promoting diversity (3%), and Combating climate change (2%).
Methodology
The survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on November 1-3, 2022. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 2.8 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Scott Rasmussen is founder and president of the Rasmussen Media Group. He is a political analyst, author, public speaker, independent public opinion pollster and columnist for Creators Syndicate. Read Scott Rasmussen's Reports — More Here.
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