Poll Watch: Rasmussen 2012 Republican Nomination Survey

Rasmussen 2012 Republican Nomination Survey

If the 2012 Republican Primary for President were held today would you vote for Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich or Mitch Daniels?

• Mitt Romney 20%
• Mike Huckabee 19%
• Sarah Palin 19%
• Newt Gingrich 13%
• Tim Pawlenty 6%
• Ron Paul 5%
• Mitch Daniels 3%
• Some other candidate 7%
• Not sure 8%

Suppose some of the bigger names decided not to run for President in 2012 and you had a choice between Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, John Thune, Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Jim DeMint and Haley Barbour…for whom would you vote?

• Chris Christie 22%
• Ron Paul 14%
• Tim Pawlenty 9%
• Haley Barbour 8%
• Jim DeMint 7%
• John Thune 3%
• Mike Pence 3%
• Mitch Daniels 2%
• Some other candidate 13%
• Not sure 19%

Suppose Mitt Romney won the Republican nomination for president of the United States. How likely is it that you would consider supporting a third party candidate for President rather than the Republican nominee?

• Very Likely 12%
• Somewhat Likely 16%
• Not Very Likely 40%
• Not At All Likely 24%

Suppose Sarah Palin won the Republican nomination for president of the United States. How likely is it that you would consider supporting a third party candidate for President rather than the Republican nominee?

• Very Likely 17%
• Somewhat Likely 14%
• Not Very Likely 31%
• Not At All Likely 32%

Suppose Mike Huckabee won the Republican nomination for president of the United States. How likely is it that you would consider supporting a third party candidate for President rather than the Republican nominee?

• Very Likely 11%
• Somewhat Likely 13%
• Not Very Likely 36%
• Not At All Likely 34%

Suppose Newt Gingrich won the Republican nomination for president of the United States. How likely is it that you would consider supporting a third party candidate for President rather than the Republican nominee?

• Very Likely 13%
• Somewhat Likely 14%
• Not Very Likely 33%
• Not At All Likely 34%

I’m going to read you a short list of people in the news. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

Sarah Palin

• Very favorable 50%
• Somewhat favorable 32%
• Somewhat unfavorable 9%
• Very unfavorable 8%

Mitt Romney

• Very favorable 37%
• Somewhat favorable 42%
• Somewhat unfavorable 13%
• Very unfavorable 4%

Mike Huckabee

• Very favorable 43%
• Somewhat favorable 36%
• Somewhat unfavorable 12%
• Very unfavorable 5%

Newt Gingrich

• Very favorable 37%
• Somewhat favorable 35%
• Somewhat unfavorable 16%
• Very unfavorable 7%

Haley Barbour

• Very favorable 17%
• Somewhat favorable 31%
• Somewhat unfavorable 19%
• Very unfavorable 7%

Mitch Daniels

• Very favorable 6%
• Somewhat favorable 30%
• Somewhat unfavorable 18%
• Very unfavorable 7%

Jim DeMint

• Very favorable 18%
• Somewhat favorable 27%
• Somewhat unfavorable 17%
• Very unfavorable 9%

Scott Brown

• Very favorable 10%
• Somewhat favorable 27%
• Somewhat unfavorable 27%
• Very unfavorable 11%

Chris Christie

• Very favorable 35%
• Somewhat favorable 18%
• Somewhat unfavorable 14%
• Very unfavorable 10%

Michele Bachmann

• Very favorable 26%
• Somewhat favorable 21%
• Somewhat unfavorable 17%
• Very unfavorable 10%

Tim Pawlenty

• Very favorable 14%
• Somewhat favorable 30%
• Somewhat unfavorable 17%
• Very unfavorable 7%

Mike Pence

• Very favorable 11%
• Somewhat favorable 22%
• Somewhat unfavorable 18%
• Very unfavorable 7%

John Thune

• Very favorable 6%
• Somewhat favorable 20%
• Somewhat unfavorable 20%
• Very unfavorable 8%

Marco Rubio

• Very favorable 29%
• Somewhat favorable 23%
• Somewhat unfavorable 14%
• Very unfavorable 7%

Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party movement?

• Favorable 79%
• Unfavorable 9%

How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President?

• Strongly approve 3%
• Somewhat approve 4%
• Somewhat disapprove 9%
• Strongly disapprove 84%

National survey of 1,000 likely GOP primary voters was conducted November 1, 2010. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points.