News — The Fall 2006 Middle Tennessee State University Poll, featuring Tennesseans' views on national, international and local issues, including the situation in Iraq, the war on terror, immigration, U.S. involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts, disaster preparedness and gay marriage, is now available at the poll's Web site, .
Among the findings:
Tennesseans' attitudes toward immigrants don't change simply by using politically correct terminology. In a survey experiment, fully 60 percent of those responding said they think "illegal" immigrants make life worse, while another 58 percent say "undocumented" immigrants make life worse.
Tennessee's U.S. Senate race to replace outgoing GOP Sen. Bill Frist may be a dead heat among voters.
War in Iraq and Afghanistan remains the top national problem, according to Tennesseans, and the perception of the national economy and direction is still sour.
For detailed findings and sampling breakdowns of the Fall 2006 MTSU Poll, visit .
More details and appendices are available at the Web site.
For Tennessee public opinion data from 1998 to present, visit , home of the twice-annual MTSU Poll, a project of the MTSU Office of Communication Research. The OCR is a division of MTSU's College of Mass Communication.
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