ASBURY PARK, N.J., March 18 (UPI) -- Most U.S. voters say they think the Japanese earthquake will damage the American economy and about one-in-four say they will donate money, a poll indicates.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released Friday shows 60 percent of likely U.S. voters say they think the recent Japanese earthquake will hurt the United States economically, while 10 percent say they think the earthquake will help it. Fifteen percent say they believe it will have no impact, and 14 percent say they are not sure.
A little more than one-in-four, 28 percent, say they have contributed or will contribute money to the Japanese relief effort but 46 percent say they will not give money and 26 percent say they haven't decided.
Rasmussen Reports said after the Jan. 12, 2010, magnitude-7 earthquake in Haiti, 37 percent of Americans said they had contributed or would contribute to relief efforts there. Asked a year later, only 32 percent said they had contributed or still intended to contribute to Haitian relief.
The nationwide survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted on March 16-17. The margin of error was 3 percentage points.
