Purple Strategies conducted a survey of 600 Ohio likely voters between Sep 15 and Sep 19, 2012. Respondents were contacted by either Landline or Internet and the interaction was automated. The results of this poll were released on Sep 21, 2012.
Results were provided for the only publicly acknowledged question.
Question 5 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the 2012 presidential election were held Obama
today and the candidates were: Democratic
Romney
Barack Obama and Republican
Mitt Romney, for whom would you vote?
| Obama (D) | Romney (R) | Not Sure | Total |
|---|
| All | 48% | 44% | 8% | 600
Likely |
| Female | 54% | 37% | 9% | 52% |
| Male | 41% | 53% | 6% | 48% |
| Democrat | 90% | 7% | 3% | 38% |
| Independent | 38% | 48% | 14% | 26% |
| Republican | 10% | 82% | 8% | 36% |
This question was presented to 600 likely voters from Ohio who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 4%.
The question wording was provided by Purple Strategies.