Posted on 03/13/2012 4:55:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
NEW ORLEANS – A new, exclusive statewide poll of likely Republican voters in Louisiana conducted for WWL-TV shows voters favoring Rick Santorum, with the primary election two weeks away.
The telephone poll of 515 likely Republican voters reveals Santorum leading the field, with just over 25 percent of the vote.
Mitt Romney places second with just under 21 percent and is in a virtual tie with Newt Gingrich, who has almost 20 percent. Ron Paul is way behind, with less than 6 percent. Undecided gets the biggest score of all -- 26 percent.
WWL-TV election analyst Greg Rigamer, whose firm, GCR & Associates, conducted the survey from March 8-10, stresses this is a poll of Republicans with a very significant voting history.
“We would expect that in a low turnout election,” Rigamer said.
Break the poll down by gender and you find a couple of interesting points. Thirty-four percent of Republican women are undecided, compared to 17 percent of Republican men.
“So there are twice as many undecided female voters as male voters in this primary,” Rigamer said.
Santorum, a former Senator and Congressman from Pennsylvania, leads the survey among both women and men, but his lead over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among men is so close it falls within the poll's 4.4 percent margin of error.
“Statistically, among the male Republican vote, these candidates are equal,” Rigamer said.
Break the poll down by Congressional district and you find that Santorum leads in the 3rd, 4th and 6th congressional districts. Santorum ties with Gingrich in the 7th district, which covers southwest Louisiana. Gingrich ties with Romney in the 5th congressional district, in northeast Louisiana, and Romney wins in the 1st and 2nd districts, which include the metro New Orleans area.
It is the second district, which includes New Orleans, that gives Romney the biggest boost, with 50 percent of the vote.
“So even among the Republican voters in Orleans Parish, we see a more liberal tendency,” Rigamer said.
Santorum fares better statewide, when you consider the change Louisiana has seen toward a more conservative state over the past decade, which is clear in the WWL-TV survey.
In 2003, the vast majority of parishes voted Democratic for Louisiana's nine statewide offices. In 2007, the map shows a trend away from Democrats, and in 2011 the map is red almost everywhere, with statewide Republican office holders taking over the state.
“It clearly demonstrates that ratcheting to the conservative philosophy for Louisiana, hence you’ll see more Santorum support,” Rigamer said of the conservative candidate.
A new, exclusive statewide poll of likely Republican voters in Louisiana conducted for WWL-TV shows voters favoring Rick Santorum, with the primary election two weeks away.
The telephone poll of 515 likely Republican voters reveals Santorum leading the field, with just over 25 percent of the vote.
Mitt Romney places second with just under 21 percent and is in a virtual tie with Newt Gingrich, who has almost 20 percent. Ron Paul is way behind, with less than 6 percent. Undecided gets the biggest score of all -- 26 percent.
With 5 points separating the top three candidates and more than a quarter of voters undecided, the contest is effectively a tossup, and presumably susceptible to a shift in overall momentum from tonight's primaries in Alabama and Mississippi."
Does this mean Mitt will do a cameo appearance on “Swamp People,” play the washboard in a Zydeco band and hungrily gobble down a huge bowl of Alligator Jambalaya??? (I’m absolutely certain Mitt will soon tell us how much he really loves Cajun cooking!)
Wow! What more does a Southerner need? /S
If Gingrich manages to pull out wins in AL and MS, this will likely change dramatically.
If Gingrich manages to pull out wins in AL and MS, this will likely change dramatically.
Yes two weeks of campaigning in LA by Newt if he wins AL and MS should put him over the top in LA.
It will turn the primary on its head.
True, and if Mitt is serious about his pandering skills in Louisiana, he better just get ready to suck some craw fish heads! I’d like to see the look on his face.
HUSH!
You might deter the Santorum sycophant’s fantasy. The second they see the header, they will be swarming this thread.
..after tonight, that will change--I gaar awn tee...
Amazing since Santorum refused to divert money for the bridge to nowhere to aid the Katrina victims. Wonder how many in the state of Louisiana know that?
Make that..Santorum voted AGAINST diverting money from the bridge to nowhere to aid the Katrina victims.
It needs to make the rounds!
:)
“He was one of the few senators to vote for continue funding to the bridge to nowhere project even after it was deemed ridiculous and literally probably the only senator to vote to continue the ‘bridge to nowhere’ funding but vote AGAINST funding for Hurricane Katrina victims..” thats RS.
He should lose Mississippi too because in that state he supported some aid due to the storm but NONE to their casinos. RS views casinos as evil
Song, song of the south
Mitt talks too much,needs to shut his mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
He’s gonna lose won’t be back again.
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