Questions - Tennessee - March 3, 2012
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Conducted March 3, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
*For ballot questions, the order of candidate names is
rotated so that different survey respondents hear the candidate names in a
different order.
1* If the
2012 Republican Primary for president were held today, would you vote for Mitt
Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul?
2* If the 2012 Republican Primary for president were held
today and you only had a choice between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, for whom
would you vote?
3* Now I’m
going to read you a short list of people in the news. For each, please let me
know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or
very unfavorable impression.
Mitt
Romney
Newt
Gingrich
Ron Paul
Rick
Santorum
4* Which
Republican presidential candidate would be the strongest opponent against Barack Obama in the general
election… Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich or Ron
Paul?
5* Regardless
of who you want to win, who do you think will win the Republican presidential
nomination?
Romney
Santorum
Gingrich
Paul
Some other candidate
Not sure
6* Suppose your favorite candidate does not win the
nomination. When the general election is held, would you be most likely to vote
for the Republican candidate, President Barack Obama, or a third party candidate?
7* What’s more important choosing a Republican nominee who
does the best job representing Republican values or choosing a nominee that has
the best chance to beat Barack Obama?
8* Are you
certain you will vote for that candidate or is it possible that something come
up that causes you to change your mind?
9* Many times, things come up that
make it impossible for someone to vote in the primaries. Are you certain that
you will vote in the
10* How would you rate the job Barack
Obama has been doing as president…do you strongly
approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the
job he’s been doing?
11* How would you rate the job Bill Haslam
has been doing as governor…do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat
disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence