University of Iowa conducted a survey of 320 Iowa likely voters between Oct 18 and Oct 27, 2012. Respondents were contacted by either Landline or Internet and instructed by a live operator. The results of this poll were released on Oct 31, 2012.
Results were provided for the only publicly acknowledged question.
The rejection rate for this poll was 82.76%; this means that approximately 1536 additional respondents were contacted but declined to participate.
Question 1 | PreferenceView Matchup
Generic: If the election were held today, who would you vote for in the Presidential race?
| Romney (R) | Obama (D) | DK/Refused | Someone Else |
|---|
| All | 45.2% | 44.4% | 6% | 4.3% |
| Female | 44.1% | 45.9% | 7.7% | 2.3% |
| Male | 46.3% | 43% | 4.2% | 6.5% |
| Democrat | 3.1% | 92.1% | 3.3% | 1.5% |
| Independent | 40.2% | 41.9% | 10.9% | 7% |
| Republican | 90.9% | 1.7% | 2.7% | 4.6% |
This question was presented to 320 likely voters from Iowa who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 5.6%.
The question wording was not made public by University of Iowa; instead, a generic question has been editorially submitted.