Purple Strategies conducted a survey of 600 Florida likely voters between Aug 13 and Aug 14, 2012. Respondents were contacted by either Landline or Internet and the interaction was automated. The results of this poll were released on Aug 15, 2012.
Results were provided for the only publicly acknowledged question.
Question 6 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the 2012 presidential election were held today and the candidates were: the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, or the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, for whom would you vote?
| Romney (R) | Obama (D) | Not Sure |
|---|
| All | 48% | 47% | 5% |
| Female | 50% | 45% | 4% |
| Male | 46% | 49% | 6% |
| Democrat | 15% | 83% | 2% |
| Independent | 40% | 52% | 8% |
| Republican | 85% | 10% | 5% |
This question was presented to 600 likely voters from Florida who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 4%.
The question wording was provided by Purple Strategies.