Public Policy Polling conducted a survey of 804 North Carolina registered voters between Mar 8 and Mar 11, 2012. Respondents were contacted by either Cellphone or Landline and instructed by a live operator. The results of this poll were released on Mar 14, 2012.
Results were provided for each of the 2 publicly acknowledged questions along with the order in which they were presented.
Question 5 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the Republican candidates for President
were Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney,
and Rick Santorum, who would you vote for?
This question was presented to 492 likely voters from North Carolina who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 4.4%.
The question wording was provided by Public Policy Polling.
Question 8 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the candidates for President this year were
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt
Romney, who would you vote for?
| Obama (D) | Romney (R) | Undecided | Total |
|---|
| All | 49% | 46% | 5% | 804
Registered |
| Female | 55% | 39% | 6% | 54% |
| Male | 42% | 54% | 5% | 46% |
| Democrat | 82% | 16% | 2% | 45% |
| Independent | 44% | 49% | 7% | 21% |
| Republican | 8% | 84% | 8% | 34% |
This question was presented to 804 registered voters from North Carolina who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 3.5%.
The question wording was provided by Public Policy Polling.