Zogby Poll: Majority Favor Bush Plan for Social Security

October 17, 2000

The lead in the 2000 presidential campaign goes back and forth, but a new Zogby International poll comparing public support for positions held by the two candidates shows that support for Social Security reform based upon personal retirement accounts continues. Fifty percent of the respondents favored the Bush/Cheney position that people should be allowed to put up to two percentage points of their Social Security payroll taxes into a personal retirement account that would be invested in private stocks or bonds. Forty-four percent favored the Gore/Lieberman position that some of the projected budget surplus should be used to shore up Social Security.

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