Poll Watch: PPP (D) New Mexico 2012 Republican Primary Survey

PPP (D) New Mexico 2012 GOP Primary Survey

• Michele Bachmann 21%
• Mitt Romney 18% [16%] (33%)
• Gary Johnson 13% [13%]
• Sarah Palin 11% [20%] (32%)
• Herman Cain 10%
• Tim Pawlenty 7% [6%]
• Newt Gingrich 6% [13%]
• Ron Paul 5% [4%]
• Someone else/Undecided 9% [8%]

Among Men

• Michele Bachmann 25%
• Gary Johnson 18% [14%]
• Mitt Romney 14% [14%] (35%)
• Herman Cain 11%
• Sarah Palin 9% [18%] (33%)
• Ron Paul 7% [6%]
• Tim Pawlenty 6% [7%]
• Newt Gingrich 5% [18%]
• Someone else/Undecided 6% [6%]

Among Women

• Mitt Romney 23% [17%] (31%)
• Michele Bachmann 17%
• Sarah Palin 14% [21%] (31%)
• Herman Cain 9%
• Gary Johnson 8% [12%]
• Newt Gingrich 7% [7%]
• Tim Pawlenty 7% [5%]
• Ron Paul 4% [3%]
• Someone else/Undecided 12% [11%]

If Sarah Palin didn’t run, and the choices were just Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, and Mitt Romney, who would you most like to see as the nominee?

• Michele Bachmann 27%
• Mitt Romney 23%
• Herman Cain 12%
• Ron Paul 8%
• Tim Pawlenty 7%
• Newt Gingrich 6%
• Jon Huntsman 4%
• Someone else/Not sure 13%

Favorable / Unfavorable {Net}

• Sarah Palin 62% [69%] / 27% [25%] {+35%}
• Herman Cain 47% / 14% {+33%}
• Michele Bachmann 50% / 24% {+26%}
• Mitt Romney 50% [56%] / 31% [29%] {+19%}
• Tim Pawlenty 37% / 21% {+16%}
• Gary Johnson 47% [46%] / 40% [33%] {+7%}

Among Men

• Sarah Palin 67% [73%] / 26% [21%] {+41%}
• Herman Cain 52% / 17% {+35%}
• Michele Bachmann 58% / 24% {+34%}
• Mitt Romney 50% [59%] / 35% [26%] {+15%}
• Tim Pawlenty 38% / 26% {+12%}
• Gary Johnson 50% [48%] / 41% [31%] {+9%}

Among Women

• Herman Cain 41% / 11% {+30%}
• Sarah Palin 56% [65%] / 28% [31%] {+28%}
• Mitt Romney 50% [53%] / 27% [33%] {+23%}
• Tim Pawlenty 35% / 16% {+19%}
• Michele Bachmann 41% / 23% {+18%}
• Gary Johnson 43% [44%] / 40% [36%] {+3%}

Survey of 400 usual New Mexico Republican primary voters was conducted June 23-26, 2011. The margin of error is +/- 4.9 percentage points. Political ideology: 43% Very conservative; 36% Somewhat conservative; 14% Moderate; 6% Somewhat liberal; 1% Very liberal.  Results from the poll conducted February 4-6, 2011 are in square brackets.  Results from the poll conducted February 18-20, 2010 are in parentheses.