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Background & Methodology

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  • Each spring and fall, Critical Insights, a division of Digital Research, Inc. conducts the Critical Insights on MaineTM tracking survey, a comprehensive, statewide public opinion survey of registered voters that covers a variety of topics of interest to businesses, government, and the general public.
  • Critical Insights on MaineTM has been documenting the attitudes, perceptions, and preferences of Maine’s residents for more than 20 years, making it the longest-running consistently-administered tracking survey in the Northeast.
    • In addition to general-interest items (the results of which are released to the media as a public service), the survey also includes a number of proprietary items for sponsoring entities, with results of those items released only to those sponsors.
  • This document presents the results of questions included in the fall 2019 wave of the survey on behalf of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust.

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  • This wave of the survey included a total of 600 respondents across the state who were surveyed by phone (300 respondents) or online (300 respondents) in October of 2019.
    • With a total sample of 600 respondents, results presented here have a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.9

percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

    • All survey respondents were registered voters who live in Maine; final data were statistically weighted to reflect the demographics of the state’s population.
    • On average, the entire survey instrument was 20 minutes in administrative length – including both general-interest items and all proprietary subscriber items.

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Three out of four voters would support a state bond issue to build and expand outdoor recreation trails in Maine; most of those – four out of ten overall – would strongly support the bond issue.

Strongly Support 41%

Somewhat Support 33%

Somewhat Oppose 8%

Strongly Oppose

9%

Not Sure 9%

Among all (n=600)

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In general, would you support or oppose a state bond issue to build and expand outdoor recreation trails in Maine?

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Total Support: 74%

Support for State Bond Issue to Build/Expand Recreation Trails