Tuesday, September 13, 2011

PPP Polling: Romney Within the MOE with Obama

Americans strongly disagree with the statements Rick Perry made about Social Security in last week's Republican Presidential debate, and Barack Obama has nearly doubled his lead over Perry nationally in the span of just 3 weeks.

Only 20% of voters agree with Perry that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme to 70% who dissent from that statement. Democrats (4/87) and independents (20/69) are pretty universal in their disagreement with Perry and even Republicans (39/49) don't stand with him on this one. When it comes to the possibility of actually ending Social Security voters are even more unanimous- 82% oppose taking that step to only 10% who would be supportive of it. If Perry ends up as the Republican nominee and Democrats can effectively convince the electorate that he does want to end Social Security it could be an extremely damaging issue for him.

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Mitt Romney continues to look like the considerably more electable GOP contender. He trails Obama by only 4 points at 49-45. You can see the difference between Romney and Perry's general election viability at this point particularly with independents. While Perry's favorability with them is just 23/51 as mentioned above, Romney's is 44/39. And where Perry trails Obama by 10 points with them, Romney actually holds a 2 point advantage. Romney also consolidates the GOP vote better than Perry (87% as opposed to 82%) and wins over slightly more Democrats (11% to Perry's 9%). If Republican voters really value having a candidate who can beat Obama, as they claim to, Romney's their guy at this point.

Head-To-Head:

Barack Obama 49%
Mitt Romney 45% (-4)

Barack Obama 52%
Rick Perry 41% (-11)

Barack Obama 53%
Newt Gingrich 41% (-12)

Barack Obama 53%
Michele Bachmann 39% (-14)

Other questions in the poll:

Would you support eliminating Social Security or not?

Would support eliminating Social Security 10%
Would not 82%

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme.”

Agree 20%
Disagree 70%
PPP surveyed 665 American voters from September 8th to 11th. The margin of error for the entire survey is +/-3.8%. Democrat 41%, Republican 34%, Independent/Other 25%.

The Crosstabs can be viewed here.



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1 comment:

Concerned Patriot said...

I've come around on Romney more and definitely favor him to Perry. I still think Santorum, Gingrich, and Cain are favorable to both though. advancingthetruth.blogspot.com