Who should pay most of the cost for improving the reliability of the state’s electric grid? (April 2023)
category | Total |
---|---|
State government | 48% |
Utilities | 33% |
Local governments | 5% |
Customers / rate payers | 6% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 62% | 32% | 36% |
Utilities | 26% | 49% | 41% |
Local governments | 3% | 2% | 5% |
Customers / rate payers | 5% | 2% | 7% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 14% | 10% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 57% | 60% | 65% |
Utilities | 32% | 31% | 22% |
Local governments | 1% | 4% | 3% |
Customers / rate payers | 4% | 1% | 6% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 5% | 4% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 25% | 34% | 42% |
Utilities | 49% | 45% | 37% |
Local governments | 6% | 6% | 5% |
Customers / rate payers | 8% | 5% | 8% |
Don't know/No opinion | 13% | 11% | 8% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 59% | 49% | 40% |
Utilities | 27% | 28% | 40% |
Local governments | 6% | 5% | 4% |
Customers / rate payers | 3% | 7% | 6% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 11% | 10% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 55% | 59% | 62% |
Utilities | 24% | 29% | 27% |
Local governments | 11% | 3% | 4% |
Customers / rate payers | 6% | 3% | 2% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 6% | 5% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 46% | 38% | 39% |
Utilities | 34% | 42% | 42% |
Local governments | 4% | 4% | 3% |
Customers / rate payers | 5% | 7% | 5% |
Don't know/No opinion | 12% | 9% | 11% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 44% | 56% | 54% |
Utilities | 37% | 21% | 29% |
Local governments | 5% | 7% | 3% |
Customers / rate payers | 6% | 8% | 3% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 8% | 11% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
State government | 40% | 55% |
Utilities | 40% | 26% |
Local governments | 5% | 5% |
Customers / rate payers | 8% | 3% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 11% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
State government | 53% | 46% | 44% |
Utilities | 25% | 35% | 40% |
Local governments | 6% | 5% | 3% |
Customers / rate payers | 9% | 4% | 2% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 9% | 11% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
State government | 64% | 54% | 43% | 37% |
Utilities | 13% | 25% | 41% | 44% |
Local governments | 11% | 5% | 3% | 3% |
Customers / rate payers | 4% | 8% | 4% | 6% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 8% | 10% | 10% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
State government | 51% | 47% | 48% | 50% | 49% | 43% |
Utilities | 19% | 29% | 32% | 28% | 34% | 45% |
Local governments | 3% | 4% | 8% | 8% | 4% | 2% |
Customers / rate payers | 8% | 9% | 1% | 6% | 6% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 19% | 11% | 11% | 8% | 7% | 6% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
State government | 50% | 42% | 50% | 50% |
Utilities | 31% | 35% | 32% | 34% |
Local governments | 5% | 7% | 3% | 3% |
Customers / rate payers | 6% | 5% | 6% | 5% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 11% | 10% | 8% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
State government | 52% | 43% | 51% | 46% |
Utilities | 30% | 36% | 35% | 24% |
Local governments | 6% | 4% | 3% | 8% |
Customers / rate payers | 4% | 9% | 4% | 0% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 8% | 6% | 21% |