This Washington Post-ABC News poll by telephone July 6-7, 2016 among a random national

sample of 519 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The
results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5
percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by SSRS of Media, Pa.
(Full methodological details appended at the end.)
*= less than 0.5 percent
1. As you may have heard, FBI Director James Comey has recommended NOT charging
Hillary Clinton with a crime for her use of personal email while secretary of state
saying she did not have any criminal intent. He also said Clinton was "extremely
careless" in her handling of classified information in her personal e-mail.
Do you approve or disapprove of Comey's recommendation that Clinton should NOT be
charged with a crime?
7/7/16

Approve
35

Disapprove
56

No opinion
9

2. Has the outcome of this issue made you (more) likely to support Clinton for
president, (less) likely, or wont it make any difference in your vote?

7/7/16

More
10

No
difference
58

Less
28

No
opinion
4

3. Does this issue make you worry about how Clinton might handle her responsibilities
if shes elected president, or do you think its NOT related to how she might handle
her responsibilities if elected? IF WORRY: Are you very worried about this, or
somewhat worried?

7/7/16

-------Worried------NET
Very
Somewhat
57
43
14

Not
related
39

No
opinion
3

Party ID. Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a/an...?

7/7/16

Democrat
34

Republican
24

Independent
38

Other (vol.)
1

No opinion
3

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METHODOLOGICAL DETAILS
This poll was jointly sponsored and funded by The Washington Post and ABC News. The
poll is a random sample adults of the United States, including interviews in English
and Spanish. This questionnaire was administered with the exact questions in the exact
order as appears in this document. These questions were part of an omnibus survey in
which other questions were asked before or after these question.
A dual frame landline and cellular phone telephone sample was generated using Random
Digit Dialing procedures. Interviewers called landlines cellular phone numbers, first

requesting to speak with the youngest adult male or female at home. The final sample
included 209 interviews completed on landlines and 310 interviews completed via
cellular phones, including 198 interviews with adults in cell phone-only households.
This survey uses statistical weighting procedures to account for differential chances
of being selected due to landline and cellular phone access and household size.
Weighting also corrects for deviations in the survey sample from known population
characteristics, which helps correct for differential survey participation and random
variation in samples.
The overall adult sample is weighted using a raking procedure to match the demographic
makeup of the population by sex, region, age, education, race/ethnicity, marital
status, and population density according to Census estimates. The sample is also
weighted to match phone estimates of the share of the population who are cell phoneonly, landline-only and mixed user populations according to the National Health
Interview Survey. The sample is also weighted to match the party identification in the
previous three waves of SSRS weekly surveys.
All error margins have been adjusted to account for the surveys design effect, which
is 1.49 for this survey. The design effect is a factor representing the surveys
deviation from a simple random sample, and takes into account decreases in precision
due to sample design and weighting procedures. Surveys that do not incorporate a
design effect overstate their precision.
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produce.