Polls show Romney leading in South Carolina

American Research Group ^ | 10/30/07 | American Research Group, Inc.

[Spiff]

Romney	29%
Giuliani	23%
McCain	13%
Thompson	10%
Huckabee	5%

	American Research Group, Inc.

South Carolina

Presidential Primary Preference:

 

South Carolina
Likely Republican Primary Voters	Dec 06	Feb 07	Apr 07	May 07	Jun 07	Jul 07	Aug 07	Sep 07	Oct 07
Brownback	-	-	1%	1%	1%	-	2%	1%	ni
Gilmore	-	1%	1%	1%	1%	ni	ni	ni	ni
Gingrich	15%	10%	6%	6%	6%	7%	6%	7%	ni
Giuliani	28%	29%	23%	23%	22%	28%	26%	23%	23%
Hagel	-	-	1%	-	-	ni	ni	ni	ni
Huckabee	1%	1%	2%	1%	3%	3%	9%	1%	5%
Hunter	-	1%	-	1%	2%	1%	-	1%	2%
Keyes	ni	ni	ni	ni	ni	ni	ni	-	1%
McCain	35%	35%	36%	32%	23%	10%	12%	15%	13%
Pataki	-	-	-	-	-	ni	ni	ni	ni
Paul	ni	-	-	-	-	3%	2%	2%	4%
Romney	5%	5%	6%	10%	8%	7%	9%	26%	29%
Tancredo	ni	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%
F Thompson	ni	ni	10%	13%	19%	27%	21%	10%	10%
T Thompson	-	-	1%	1%	-	-	ni	ni	ni
Undecided	16%	18%	12%	11%	14%	13%	12%	13%	12%

 

Preference by party:

 

South Carolina
Likely Republican Primary Voters	Republicans (85%)	Independents (15%)
Giuliani	24%	14%
Huckabee	5%	5%
Hunter	2%	-
Keyes	1%	-
McCain	11%	23%
Paul	4%	1%
Romney	30%	24%
Tancredo	1%	-
Thompson	9%	18%
Undecided	13%	15%

 

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About this Survey -

Survey Sponsor: American Research Group, Inc.

The American Research Group has been conducting surveys of voters since 1985.

Sample Size: 600 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of likely Republican primary voters living in South Carolina (512 Republicans and 88 independent voters).

Sample Dates: October 26-29, 2007

Margin of Error: ± 4 percentage points, 95% of the time, on questions where opinion is evenly split.

[JCEccles]

Bump.

Mitt's demonstrating extraordinary executive ability. These numbers are a testament to his work ethic and drive.

[jwalsh07]

McCain and Romney have appeal for independents, more so than Rudy which will come as a schock to Rudy's supporters.

I think McCain, would have walked away with the nomination except for his alliance with Kennedy and Bush on illegals despite the fact that most of us here would not support him.

McCain also does better in head to head matchups than any other Republican in key state polls because he has that appeal to independents. Amazing but true.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Mitt Romney truly needs to be attacked more often for his “Romneycare mandatory health care plan” in Massachusetts! Forcing people onto any government run health care plan is unconstitutional to begin with whether people like it or not, and most people in the U.S. don’t want to be forced onto any government run health care plan! This issue alone can destroy Mitt Romney.

[WestSylvanian]

I agree with you about Romney’s work ethic. That kind of determination and energy will be necessary to beat Hillary. I’ve read that Romney’s typical campaign day begins with an appearance at 7:00 a.m. and ends after 10:00 p.m. He’s putting in the time and making the effort; he’s not just relying on national name recognition and notoriety as a t.v. actor like other candidates I could name.

[CheyennePress]

>>>This guy is a phony as John Edwards. I can’t believe people in the Republican party are being fooled by him.<<<

Perhaps you have a bad eye for success. Romney is clearly the candidate with the best track record. He’s also clearly the candidate who has walked the walk he talks himself.

Frankly, I think it’s high time we had someone with a venture capitalist mentality running things in DC. There’s a lot of superfluous garbage floating around up there gunking up the system.

[JCEccles]

Bump.

Romney is the hardest-working, best organized candidate running. That kind of drive and effort can't be faked.

Fred apparently just wants the presidency handed to him. He books far, far fewer speaking engagements than Romney, gives very short speeches, and then ducks out as soon as he's done so he won't have to answer questions.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

[tioga]

I hope you are right.

[Pistolshot]

Spiff....you might want to reverse your graph so the LATEST data are on the right instead of the left. As it should look on a proper spreadsheet.

[Spiff]

Spiff....you might want to reverse your graph so the LATEST data are on the right instead of the left. As it should look on a proper spreadsheet.

Huh?! Um...the latest data on the graph IS on the right. Just like a proper spreadsheet and graph should look. Acute profound dyslexia? You might want to have that checked.

[TheLion]

Get your facts straight....it was not government run health care. It was done by private insurance. If it is so bad, why are 30 states looking at some version of the idea?

[TheLion]

Bttt!

[mission9]

Seen it myself, up close in person. Mitt is the real deal, and he is swimming upstream against a withering bigotry.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

All of these states are jumping the gun on health care plans for their own states when they haven’t even seen all of pluses and all of the problems which will be occurring with Massachusetts health plan! One year of Romneycare hasn’t even occurred yet! It’s extremely important that all health care reforms are done right and to the best of human abilities.

[CheyennePress]

>>>Forcing people onto any government run health care plan is unconstitutional to begin with whether people like it or not, and most people in the U.S. don’t want to be forced onto any government run health care plan! <<<

Only Mass isn’t running the healthcare there. Private industry is. And you’re not forced to buy health insurance there—just prove you have enough on hand to pay your bills if you don’t want insurance and put it into an account the state can access to pay the hospital if you default on your bills.

[TheLion]

Romney has said it isn’t perfect and won’t fit all states. The main point is that the premiums that the state helps out the poor is way cheaper than covering their costs otherwise. It will be interesting how it plays out.