The survey is important background. The question about publicly financed elections is particularly interesting, but perhaps is handicapped in the survey by not having been explained and presented to many of the survey respondents. Follow-on questions on the question of publicly financed elections might be "Are you familiar with how publicly financed elections would work?" or "Have you heard about the successful publicly financed elections in various states and cities?" (Clean Elections is law in seven states and two cities: Arizona; Connecticut; Maine; New Jersey; New Mexico; North Carolina; Vermont; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Portland, Oregon, per publicampaign.org.) I suspect the opinions would be more favorable among those informed of their success. Publicly financed elections not only reduce lobbyist influence, but also enable candidates enough money to get their message out without being personally rich.