Posts Tagged ‘leads’
CNN Poll: Romney Leads in Battleground States
President Barack Obama maintains a slight and statistically insignificant edge over Mitt Romney nationally, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll, but Romney leads Obama in critical battleground states. Obama leads Romney nationally by three percentage points, 49 to 46, with 4 percent of those saying they would vote for another candidate or neither candidate, which is inside the poll's margin of error. In the 15 states CNN calls battleground states — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin — Romney leads Obama, 51 percent to 43 percent. Read more on Newsmax.com: CNN Poll: Romney Leads in Battleground States
Romney leads Obama in Wisconsin
Mitt Romney now leads President Obama for the first time in Wisconsin where the president's support has fallen to its lowest level to date. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Romney with 47% of the vote to Obama’s 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Prior to this survey, Obama's support in the state has ranged from 45% to 52%, while Romney has earned 41% to 45%. Last month, the numbers were Obama 49%, Romney 45%. The president led his likely Republican challenger by 11 points in March - 52% to 41%. via Election 2012: Wisconsin President - Rasmussen Reports™. Related articles Polls: Romney leads Obama in Ohio and Florida, tied in [...]
Romney Leads Obama 46-41 Percent – 2012 Election
Michigan voters were asked if the presidential election were held today, who would they vote for? Here are their responses, based on the top three Republican candidates. via Where Michigan stands on 2012 race for president | Detroit Free Press | freep.com.
Gingrich takes the lead
Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in PPP's national polling. He's at 28% to 25% for Herman Cain and 18% for Mitt Romney. The rest of the Republican field is increasingly looking like a bunch of also rans: Rick Perry is at 6%, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5%, Jon Huntsman at 3%, and Gary Johnson and Rick Santorum each at 1%. Compared to a month ago Gingrich is up 13 points, while Cain has dropped by 5 points and Romney has gone down by 4. Although a fair amount of skepticism remains about the recent allegations against Cain there is no doubt they are taking a toll on his image- his net favorability is down 25 points over the last month from +51 (66/15) to only +26 (57/31). What is perhaps a little more surprising is that Romney's favorability is at a 6 month low in our polling [...]
Cain Leads GOP Field in SOUTH CAROLINA!
By Albert N. Milliron It has been said that political primaries are like biblical time, one day can be like a thousand years. Having said that, This writer, said nearly two Months ago that we thought Herman Cain could win the "First in the South" South Carolina Republican Primary. In a discussion with Meghan McCain, we predicted a Romney Win in New Hampshire (no stretch there) but said that Herman Cain is our predicted winner for the South Carolina Primary. While Cains Lead over Romney is just one percentage point and falls within the polls margin of error, we still see this as significant. Herman Cain leads the South Carolina Republican presidential primary with 26%. Cain is followed closely by Mitt Romney at 25%. Rick Perry is third at 15%. In July, Romney was leading with 25%, [...]
Romney Leads Perry in latest Florida Poll
Following a debate performance that many dubbed disastrous, Rick Perry has ceded the position of frontrunner in Florida to Mitt Romney, according to a Public Policy Polling poll released Wednesday. The poll found that 30 percent of Florida Republican primary voters would vote for Mitt Romney, while 24 percent would vote for Rick Perry. Newt Gingrich, the only other candidate to break double digits, is in third with 10 percent. Michele Bachmann has fallen to 6th place, with 6 percent, behind Ron Paul and Herman Cain, who recently won the Florida Five strawpoll. If the race boiled down to just Romney and Perry, Romney beats out the Lone Star governor 45 percent to 36 percent, though a full 19 percent of Republican voters remain unsure. Perry’s troubles seem to stem in large part from [...]
Zogby Poll: Herman Cain Leads by 10 percentage points, Perry 18%, Romney 17%, Paul 11%
UTICA, NY--Rick Perry has tumbled by more than 20 percentage points over the past month among Republican presidential primary voters and is now second to Herman Cain, who leads the field with 28%. Mitt Romney received little benefit from Perrys fall, garnering 17% of the vote for third place. As for President Barack Obama, both his job approval (42%) and the percentage who believe he deserves re-election (37%) are little changed from recent polls, but he does seem to be winning back some supporters who have been disappointed in his job performance. These results are from an IBOPE Zogby interactive poll conducted Sept. 23-26 of all likely voters and of likely Republican primary voters. Announced GOP Candidates (GOP primary voters) If the Republican primary for President were held [...]
GOP Primary: Perry Now Leads GOP Field
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%. Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia [...]
Bachmann Leads in first National poll. Romney close second
Some on the right will take the following Public Policy Polling (PPP) with a grain of salt. PPP is known to be a left leaning polling organization often emphasizing negative results for the right. Here we find a poll where Michele Bachmann Leads but Mitt Romney is right behind and within the margin of error. A distant third is a candidate who has not announced but is developing his team at the time of this writing. Bachmann 21%, Romney 20%, Perry 12%, Cain 11%, Paul 9% Raleigh, N.C. – Michele Bachmann's momentum continues to build and she's taken first place by the smallest of margins on PPP's newest national Presidential poll. 21% of Republican primary voters say she's their top choice to 20% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Rick Perry, 11% for Herman Cain, 9% for Ron Paul, 7% for [...]
Mason-Dixon Iowa Poll Bachmann Leads field, Romney beats Obama in Head-to-Head matchup
The latest Mason-Dixon poll shows Bachmann leads the field in Iowa. Eight behind within the margin of error is Romney. In Head to head Match-ups Romney Beats Obama, Obama beats Bachmann Bachmann 32, Romney 29, Pawlenty had 7 , Santorum 6, Paul 3, Gingrich 2, Cain 1, Huntsman 0, Johnson 0 The survey was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, an independent firm. The overall survey, conducted for the Every Child Matters Education Fund, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent. Among likely Iowa GOP caucusgoers, the poll found Bachmann had 32 percent support, holding a statistically insignificant lead over Romney at 29 percent. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty had 7 percent; former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum had 6 percent; U.S. Rep. Ron Paul had 3 percent; [...]
