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Alaska Dispatch News poll: Trump transition

Editor's note: Daily through Jan. 25, ADN will publish poll results showing how Alaskans feel about topics ranging from the Affordable Care Act and President-elect Donald Trump's transition to crime and the opioid crisis. 

Donald Trump won a majority of Alaska votes in the November election, but Alaskans are not as keen on his transition, according to a public opinion poll conducted in December among 750 respondents for Alaska Dispatch News by Ivan Moore's Alaska Survey Research. The poll was part of the company's quarterly Alaska Survey.

Statewide, Alaskans backed Trump in November, 51.3 percent to Hillary Clinton's 36.5 percent, with a smattering of other candidates getting the remainder of the vote. But in the poll asking how Trump is doing now, Alaskans were less certain about Trump, though he still had a plurality of support — 46.3 percent approved of how he was handling his transition while 39.9 percent were opposed.

In Southeast Alaska, a more liberal part of the state, 49.3 percent disapproved of how Trump was handling his transition. In Southcentral Alaska (not counting Anchorage), a much more conservative part of the state, the results were flipped: 62.4 percent approved. In Anchorage, the results were almost a dead heat: 44.4 percent approved of how Trump was handling his transition, 44 percent disapproved, and 11.6 percent weren't sure.

Full crosstabs for this survey question here.

The Alaska Survey is a statewide public opinion survey project consisting of 750 interviews with randomly selected Alaskans aged 18+. 500 interviews are conducted on cellphones, 250 on landlines. With the exception of rural Alaska, all numbers for this study are generated randomly onto the set of active Alaska telephone prefixes, with no calling done to lists or phone book records. Survey completions are apportioned appropriately by geographic area in Alaska, and collected data is weighted to make the sample representative of the Alaska population by gender, ethnicity and age, according to latest Census estimates, and also by land/cell phone status. The full sample of 750 (MOE +3.6%) contains a subsample of 624 registered voters (MOE +3.9%).

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