Election Poll: Which Candidate For President Has The Small-Business Vote?
It’s no wonder the presidential candidates praise the nation’s entrepreneurs as often as they can: The people who run small businesses or receive a paycheck from them make up a massive voting bloc.
Just do the math. According to the Census Bureau, U.S. small businesses employ 59.7 million people. That amounts to nearly half the 131 million people who voted in the last presidential election. Add the distrust of large organizations on the heels of the financial crisis, which has led many Americans to identify with the entrepreneurial ideal, and the small-business community becomes an even more coveted vote.
So which candidate is currently the most popular among small-business owners? Manta, an online community of small businesses, set out to answer that question in a survey released today.
Questions in the survey of 1,022 business owners, conducted earlier this month, included:
- “What political issue will have the biggest impact on your business?” (tax policy topped the list, with access to credit and unemployment not far behind)
- “How satisfied are you with the field of potential 2012 presidential candidates?” (54 percent of respondents are not satisfied)
Perhaps most notably, the survey also asked, “Who do you plan to vote for in the 2012 presidential election?”
Find out which presidential candidate (including the incumbent, President Obama) has thus far captured the small-business vote, according to Manta’s survey:
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Posted by RobertButler
on Jan 24 2012. Filed under 2012 Presidential Campaign.
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