Are you: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Male
|
49% |
40% |
57% |
|
Female
|
51% |
46% |
53% |
|
Sample: 1682 respondents
|
|
In which age group are you? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
18-29
|
26% |
63% |
36% |
|
30-44
|
29% |
37% |
59% |
|
45-64
|
32% |
38% |
61% |
|
65 or over
|
12% |
29% |
71% |
|
Sample: 1672 respondents
|
|
In which age group are you? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
18-24
|
13% |
66% |
32% |
|
25-29
|
13% |
59% |
39% |
|
30-39
|
20% |
37% |
58% |
|
40-49
|
19% |
40% |
58% |
|
50-64
|
23% |
36% |
64% |
|
65 or over
|
12% |
29% |
71% |
|
Sample: 1672 respondents
|
|
Are you: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
White
|
74% |
32% |
66% |
|
Black
|
4% |
- |
- |
|
Hispanic/Latino
|
18% |
74% |
25% |
|
Asian
|
2% |
- |
- |
|
Other
|
2% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 1642 respondents
|
|
Sex by race |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
White men
|
37% |
30% |
67% |
|
White women
|
37% |
35% |
65% |
|
Black men
|
2% |
- |
- |
|
Black women
|
2% |
- |
- |
|
Latino men
|
8% |
71% |
27% |
|
Latino women
|
10% |
77% |
22% |
|
All other races
|
4% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 1642 respondents
|
|
On most political matters, do you consider yourself: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Liberal
|
19% |
86% |
12% |
|
Moderate
|
42% |
51% |
46% |
|
Conservative
|
39% |
12% |
87% |
|
Sample: 1615 respondents
|
|
No matter how you voted today, do you usually think of yourself as a: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Democrat
|
26% |
87% |
12% |
|
Republican
|
35% |
7% |
93% |
|
Independent or something else
|
39% |
45% |
51% |
|
Sample: 1651 respondents
|
|
What was the last grade of school you completed? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
No high school diploma
|
2% |
- |
- |
|
High school graduate
|
19% |
46% |
54% |
|
Some college/assoc. degree
|
36% |
42% |
56% |
|
College graduate
|
29% |
36% |
63% |
|
Postgraduate study
|
15% |
54% |
42% |
|
Sample: 1640 respondents
|
|
What was the last grade of school you completed? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
College graduate
|
44% |
42% |
56% |
|
No college degree
|
56% |
44% |
55% |
|
Sample: 1640 respondents
|
|
What was the last grade of school you completed? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
More than high school graduate
|
80% |
42% |
56% |
|
High school graduate or less
|
20% |
46% |
53% |
|
Sample: 1640 respondents
|
|
2011 total family income: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Under $30,000
|
21% |
49% |
49% |
|
$30,000 - $49,999
|
23% |
45% |
54% |
|
$50,000 - $99,999
|
33% |
41% |
57% |
|
$100,000 - $199,999
|
18% |
37% |
61% |
|
$200,000 - $249,999
|
2% |
- |
- |
|
$250,000 or more
|
3% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 1499 respondents
|
|
2011 total family income: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Under $50,000
|
45% |
47% |
51% |
|
$50,000-$99,999
|
33% |
41% |
57% |
|
$100,000 or more
|
23% |
43% |
56% |
|
Sample: 1499 respondents
|
|
2011 total family income: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Under $50,000
|
45% |
47% |
51% |
|
$50,000 or more
|
55% |
42% |
56% |
|
Sample: 1499 respondents
|
|
2011 total family income: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Under $100,000
|
77% |
44% |
54% |
|
$100,000 or more
|
23% |
43% |
56% |
|
Sample: 1499 respondents
|
|
How often do you attend religious services? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
More than once a week
|
10% |
- |
- |
|
Once a week
|
23% |
- |
- |
|
A few times a month
|
12% |
- |
- |
|
A few times a year
|
29% |
- |
- |
|
Never
|
27% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 319 respondents
|
|
How often do you attend religious services? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Weekly
|
32% |
17% |
80% |
|
Occasionally
|
40% |
36% |
63% |
|
Never
|
27% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 319 respondents
|
|
Religion, combined Protestant and other Christian |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Protestant or other Christian
|
53% |
29% |
70% |
|
Catholic
|
20% |
50% |
50% |
|
Jewish
|
1% |
- |
- |
|
Something else
|
7% |
- |
- |
|
None
|
19% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 616 respondents
|
|
Religion among whites |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
White Protestant/Other Christian
|
44% |
20% |
79% |
|
White Catholic
|
13% |
- |
- |
|
White Jewish
|
1% |
- |
- |
|
White something else
|
4% |
- |
- |
|
White none
|
15% |
- |
- |
|
Non-white
|
24% |
71% |
27% |
|
Sample: 609 respondents
|
|
Church attendance by Religion |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Protestant/Attend weekly
|
8% |
- |
- |
|
Protestant/Do not attend weekly
|
15% |
- |
- |
|
Catholic/Attend weekly
|
8% |
- |
- |
|
Catholic/Do not attend weekly
|
11% |
- |
- |
|
All Others
|
58% |
45% |
53% |
|
Sample: 319 respondents
|
|
White evangelical or white born-again Christians |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
White evangelical or white born-again Christian
|
21% |
- |
- |
|
All others
|
79% |
43% |
56% |
|
Sample: 317 respondents
|
|
Which comes closest to your position? Abortion should be: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Legal in all cases
|
26% |
- |
- |
|
Legal in most cases
|
37% |
43% |
54% |
|
Illegal in most cases
|
27% |
- |
- |
|
Illegal in all cases
|
8% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 319 respondents
|
|
Which comes closest to your position? Abortion should be: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Legal
|
64% |
51% |
48% |
|
Illegal
|
35% |
10% |
89% |
|
Sample: 319 respondents
|
|
How do you feel about the Tea Party movement? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Support
|
21% |
- |
- |
|
Neutral
|
50% |
28% |
71% |
|
Oppose
|
22% |
85% |
14% |
|
Sample: 319 respondents
|
|
Which ONE of these four issues is the most important facing the country? (CHECK ONLY ONE) |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Foreign policy
|
7% |
- |
- |
|
Federal budget deficit
|
19% |
20% |
72% |
|
The economy
|
58% |
43% |
57% |
|
Health care
|
13% |
75% |
25% |
|
Sample: 689 respondents
|
|
Which ONE of these four candidate qualities mattered most in deciding how you voted for president? (CHECK ONLY ONE) |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Shares my values
|
28% |
32% |
67% |
|
Is a strong leader
|
17% |
31% |
67% |
|
Cares about people like me
|
19% |
77% |
17% |
|
Has a vision for the future
|
34% |
44% |
55% |
|
Sample: 689 respondents
|
|
Which ONE of these four is the biggest economic problem facing people like you? (CHECK ONLY ONE) |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
The housing market
|
7% |
- |
- |
|
Unemployment
|
34% |
43% |
57% |
|
Taxes
|
10% |
- |
- |
|
Rising prices
|
45% |
43% |
52% |
|
Sample: 338 respondents
|
|
What should happen to the 2010 health care law? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Expand it
|
23% |
- |
- |
|
Leave it as is
|
13% |
- |
- |
|
Repeal some of it
|
22% |
- |
- |
|
Repeal all of it
|
35% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
What should happen to the 2010 health care law? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Expand it or leave it as is
|
36% |
89% |
8% |
|
Repeal some of it or repeal all of it
|
57% |
9% |
88% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Should income tax rates: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Increase for all
|
7% |
- |
- |
|
Increase only on income over $250,000
|
46% |
60% |
35% |
|
Not increase for anyone
|
45% |
22% |
77% |
|
Sample: 342 respondents
|
|
Should most illegal immigrants working in the United States be: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Offered a chance to apply for legal status
|
61% |
51% |
47% |
|
Deported to the country they came from
|
33% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 319 respondents
|
|
Who is more in touch with people like you? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Barack Obama
|
50% |
83% |
15% |
|
Mitt Romney
|
45% |
- |
100% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Who would better handle the economy? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Barack Obama
|
39% |
98% |
- |
|
Mitt Romney
|
58% |
4% |
94% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Who would better handle Medicare? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Barack Obama
|
40% |
96% |
2% |
|
Mitt Romney
|
53% |
1% |
98% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Who would better handle the federal budget deficit? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Barack Obama
|
39% |
98% |
- |
|
Mitt Romney
|
59% |
4% |
94% |
|
Sample: 342 respondents
|
|
Which is closer to your view: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Government should do more to solve problems
|
38% |
88% |
12% |
|
Government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals
|
58% |
20% |
80% |
|
Sample: 351 respondents
|
|
Do you think the condition of the nation's economy is: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Excellent
|
- |
- |
- |
|
Good
|
13% |
- |
- |
|
Not so good
|
44% |
52% |
46% |
|
Poor
|
42% |
17% |
77% |
|
Sample: 338 respondents
|
|
Do you think the condition of the nation's economy is: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Excellent or good
|
13% |
- |
- |
|
Not so good or poor
|
86% |
35% |
61% |
|
Sample: 338 respondents
|
|
Is the U.S. economy: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Getting better
|
39% |
89% |
9% |
|
Getting worse
|
26% |
4% |
96% |
|
Staying about the same
|
30% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 338 respondents
|
|
Economic Conditions Are... |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Getting better
|
39% |
89% |
9% |
|
Good and staying the same
|
1% |
- |
- |
|
Poor and staying the same
|
29% |
- |
- |
|
Getting worse
|
26% |
4% |
96% |
|
Sample: 338 respondents
|
|
Compared to four years ago, is your family's financial situation: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Better today
|
32% |
92% |
8% |
|
Worse today
|
39% |
7% |
92% |
|
About the same
|
28% |
57% |
43% |
|
Sample: 351 respondents
|
|
Do you think things in this country today are: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Generally going in the right direction
|
47% |
86% |
14% |
|
Seriously off on the wrong track
|
46% |
8% |
90% |
|
Sample: 315 respondents
|
|
Who is more to blame for current economic problems? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Barack Obama
|
42% |
4% |
96% |
|
George W. Bush
|
47% |
83% |
15% |
|
Sample: 338 respondents
|
|
Do you think the U.S. economic system generally: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Favors the wealthy
|
49% |
64% |
31% |
|
Is fair to most Americans
|
46% |
17% |
83% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Should taxes be raised to help cut the budget deficit? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
33% |
84% |
16% |
|
No
|
65% |
20% |
75% |
|
Sample: 338 respondents
|
|
Which comes closest to your feelings about the Obama administration: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Enthusiastic
|
17% |
- |
- |
|
Satisfied, but not enthusiastic
|
24% |
- |
- |
|
Dissatisfied, but not angry
|
38% |
13% |
81% |
|
Angry
|
20% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 342 respondents
|
|
Which comes closest to your feelings about the Obama administration: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Positive
|
41% |
89% |
10% |
|
Negative
|
58% |
8% |
88% |
|
Sample: 342 respondents
|
|
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Strongly approve
|
22% |
93% |
3% |
|
Somewhat approve
|
21% |
- |
- |
|
Somewhat disapprove
|
10% |
- |
- |
|
Strongly disapprove
|
46% |
- |
98% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Approve
|
43% |
91% |
7% |
|
Disapprove
|
56% |
3% |
94% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Is your opinion of Barack Obama: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Favorable
|
54% |
87% |
12% |
|
Unfavorable
|
44% |
1% |
98% |
|
Sample: 315 respondents
|
|
Is your opinion of Mitt Romney: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Favorable
|
51% |
4% |
96% |
|
Unfavorable
|
44% |
95% |
2% |
|
Sample: 315 respondents
|
|
Do Barack Obama’s policies generally favor: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
The rich
|
14% |
- |
- |
|
The middle class
|
44% |
87% |
12% |
|
The poor
|
29% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 315 respondents
|
|
Would Mitt Romney’s policies generally favor: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
The rich
|
48% |
85% |
13% |
|
The middle class
|
39% |
15% |
83% |
|
The poor
|
4% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 315 respondents
|
|
Do you trust Barack Obama to handle an international crisis? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
47% |
84% |
13% |
|
No
|
53% |
3% |
94% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Do you trust Mitt Romney to handle an international crisis? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
60% |
13% |
85% |
|
No
|
35% |
86% |
10% |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Do you trust _____ to handle an international crisis? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Only Barack Obama
|
29% |
100% |
- |
|
Only Mitt Romney
|
45% |
- |
100% |
|
Both of them
|
15% |
- |
- |
|
Neither of them
|
6% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 340 respondents
|
|
Which best describes your vote for president today? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
I strongly favor my candidate
|
52% |
39% |
60% |
|
I like my candidate but with reservations
|
26% |
- |
- |
|
I dislike the other candidates
|
19% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 323 respondents
|
|
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Just today
|
1% |
- |
- |
|
In the last few days
|
5% |
- |
- |
|
In October
|
11% |
- |
- |
|
In September
|
9% |
- |
- |
|
Before that
|
74% |
47% |
53% |
|
Sample: 351 respondents
|
|
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Just today or in the last few days
|
6% |
- |
- |
|
In October or in September or before that
|
93% |
48% |
52% |
|
Sample: 351 respondents
|
|
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Just today or in the last few days or in October
|
16% |
- |
- |
|
Before that
|
82% |
47% |
53% |
|
Sample: 351 respondents
|
|
Are you currently married? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
55% |
32% |
67% |
|
No
|
45% |
58% |
40% |
|
Sample: 1319 respondents
|
|
Gender by marital status |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Married men
|
30% |
29% |
68% |
|
Married women
|
26% |
35% |
64% |
|
Non-married men
|
19% |
56% |
42% |
|
Non-married women
|
25% |
60% |
39% |
|
Sample: 1319 respondents
|
|
Do you have any children under 18 living in your home? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
34% |
48% |
51% |
|
No
|
66% |
42% |
57% |
|
Sample: 970 respondents
|
|
Married with children: |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Married with children
|
22% |
38% |
61% |
|
All others
|
78% |
46% |
53% |
|
Sample: 971 respondents
|
|
Parents |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Men with children
|
18% |
39% |
59% |
|
Women with children
|
15% |
59% |
41% |
|
Men without children
|
32% |
44% |
55% |
|
Women without children
|
34% |
41% |
59% |
|
Sample: 970 respondents
|
|
Does anyone in your household belong to a labor union? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
11% |
- |
- |
|
No
|
89% |
50% |
48% |
|
Sample: 311 respondents
|
|
Do you work full-time for pay? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
66% |
51% |
48% |
|
No
|
34% |
42% |
56% |
|
Sample: 318 respondents
|
|
Should your state legally recognize same-sex marriage? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
57% |
55% |
44% |
|
No
|
42% |
10% |
88% |
|
Sample: 323 respondents
|
|
Are you gay, lesbian or bisexual? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Yes
|
7% |
- |
- |
|
No
|
93% |
42% |
56% |
|
Sample: 621 respondents
|
|
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
The most important factor
|
14% |
- |
- |
|
An important factor
|
28% |
- |
- |
|
A minor factor
|
23% |
- |
- |
|
Not a factor at all
|
32% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 140 respondents
|
|
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Important
|
41% |
- |
- |
|
Not important
|
55% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 140 respondents
|
|
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response? |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Factor
|
64% |
- |
- |
|
Not a factor
|
32% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 140 respondents
|
|
Population of area, five categories |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
Over 500,000
|
17% |
55% |
45% |
|
50,000 - 500,000
|
33% |
50% |
47% |
|
Suburbs
|
40% |
35% |
64% |
|
10,000 - 50,000
|
3% |
- |
- |
|
Rural
|
7% |
- |
- |
|
Sample: 1682 respondents
|
|
Population of area, three categories |
Total |
Obama |
Romney |
|
City over 50,000
|
50% |
52% |
46% |
|
Suburbs
|
40% |
35% |
64% |
|
Small city and Rural
|
10% |
33% |
65% |
|
Sample: 1682 respondents
|
|