January 30, 2023: Seventy-six percent (76%) of voters favor dramatically increasing the domestic mining of precious minerals to make the U.S. more self-reliant. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that this includes large majorities of both Republicans (86%) and Democrats (71%).
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on January 17-18, 2023. Field work 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 +/- 3.1 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.
Survey Question
The United States has vast deposits of precious minerals that are not mined and refined. A proposal has been made to make the United States self-reliant by dramatically increasing the mining of these precious mineral reserves. Do you favor or oppose this proposal?
- 38%-Strongly favor
- 38%-Somewhat favor
- 10%-Somewhat oppose
- 2%-Strongly oppose
- 11%-Not sure
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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