Ipsos conducted a survey of 1040 Ohio registered voters between Nov 3 and Nov 5, 2012. Respondents were reached through the internet. The results of this poll were released on Nov 5, 2012.
The poll was sponsored by Thomson Reuters.
Results were provided for each of the 2 publicly acknowledged questions along with the order in which they were presented.
Question 1 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the 2012 Presidential Election were being held today and the candidates were [ROTATE] Barack Obama
for president and Joe Biden for vice president, the Democrats, and Mitt Romney for president and Paul Ryan
for vice president, the Republicans [END ROTATE], for whom would you vote?
| Obama (D) | Romney (R) | DK/Refused | None/Other | Would Not Vote | Total |
|---|
| All | 50% | 46% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 1040
Registered |
| Democrat | 84% | 9% | 5% | 1% | 1% | 46% |
| Independent | 55% | 31% | 5% | 8% | 1% | 12% |
| Republican | 9% | 83% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 39% |
This question was presented to 1040 registered voters from Ohio who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 3.5%.
The question wording was provided by Ipsos and Thomson Reuters.
Question 2 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the election for U.S. Senate were held today and the candidates were [ROTATE] Democrat Sherrod Brown and
Republican Josh Mandel [END ROTATE], for whom would you vote?
[IF ‘NONE/OTHER/DON’T KNOW/REFUSED’:]
Do you lean more towards were [ROTATE] Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown or Republican candidate Josh
Mandel [END ROTATE]?
| Brown (D) | Mandel (R) | DK/Refused | Would Not Vote | None/Other | Total |
|---|
| All | 50% | 40% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 1040
Registered |
| Democrat | 84% | 11% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 46% |
| Independent | 53% | 30% | 5% | 2% | 9% | 12% |
| Republican | 10% | 79% | 3% | 7% | 1% | 39% |
This question was presented to 1040 registered voters from Ohio who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 3.5%.
The question wording was provided by Ipsos and Thomson Reuters.