Insider Poll:

Georgia Now Evenly Divided On Right Track-Wrong Track

While there was some slight growth in the percentage of those who believed the state is going in the right direction, there was even more growth in the percentage of those who see it going astray.

The poll was conducted Monday and Tuesday of this week in conjunction with the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and included responses from 554 people. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent.

The latest findings show 49.2 percent believe the state is moving in the right direction while 50.8 percent believe it is going in the wrong direction.

When we asked that question back in September, 47 percent said the state was headed right and 36.1 percent said it was veering off course.

The joint poll also found:

* Georgians aren’t willing to pay more out of their household income to combat global warming. Asked how much they’d be willing to pay for that endeavor, 61.8 percent said “nothing.” (Other responses: 5 percent more, 28.9 percent; 10 percent more, 5.6 percent; more than 10 percent, 3.7 percent.)

* Most Georgians do not personally know anyone who has been forced into foreclosure on their home in the last six months. Only 10.5 percent said they knew someone while 74.4 percent said they did not. The remaining 15.1 percent did not respond.

* Very few Georgians, as a percentage, believe the state is primarily responsible for dealing with Georgia’s illegal immigration problem. Here were the responses when they were asked who they believed had the primary duty: federal government, 55.2 percent; state government, 14.9 percent, local government, 6.8 percent, no opinion, 23.1 percent.