Poll Watch: CNN/ORC 2012 Republican Nomination Survey

CNN/ORC 2012 GOP Nomination Survey 

• Mitt Romney 17% [24%] {15%} (11%) [18%] {18%} (20%) [21%] {20%} (22%)
• Michele Bachmann 15% [4%] {7%} (5%)
• Sarah Palin 15% [20%] {13%} (12%) [12%] {19%} (14%) [18%] {15%} (18%)
• Rudy Giuliani 14% [12%] {16%}
• Ron Paul 9% [7%] {12%} (7%) [8%] {7%} (7%) [10%] {8%} (8%)
• Herman Cain 8% [10%] {10%}
• Newt Gingrich 4% [10%] {8%} (11%) [14%] {10%} (12%) [15%] {14%} (8%)
• Tim Pawlenty 4% [3%] {5%} (2%) [3%] {3%} (3%) [3%] {2%} (5%)
• Rick Santorum 3% [1%] {2%} (2%) [3%] {1%} (2%) [2%] {3%} (5%)
• Jon Huntsman 1% [1%] {1%}
• Gary Johnson 1% {1%}
• Someone else (vol.) 1% [2%] {3%} (3%) [4%] {5%} (7%) [6%] {5%} (8%)
• None/No one (vol.) 8% [2%] {5%} (4%) [3%] {4%} (4%) [0%] {5%} (2%)
• No opinion 2% [3%] {2%} (1%) [2%] {2%} (6%) [4%] {1%} (3%)

If Rick Perry Runs

• Mitt Romney 16%
• Rick Perry 14%
• Rudy Giuliani 13%
• Sarah Palin 13%
• Michele Bachmann 12%
• Ron Paul 8%
• Herman Cain 6%
• Newt Gingrich 4%
• Tim Pawlenty 3%
• Rick Santorum 2%
• Jon Huntsman 1%
• Gary Johnson 0%
• Thaddeus McCotter 0%
• Someone else (vol.) 1%
• None/No one (vol.) 8%
• No opinion 1%

Among Republicans (MoE: +/-6.0%)

• Mitt Romney 18%
• Rick Perry 15%
• Sarah Palin 14%
• Rudy Giuliani 12%
• Michele Bachmann 9%
• Ron Paul 8%
• Herman Cain 4%
• Newt Gingrich 4%
• Tim Pawlenty 2%
• Rick Santorum 2%
• Jon Huntsman 1%
• Gary Johnson 0%
• Thaddeus McCotter 0%

Among GOP-Leaning Independents (MoE: +/-7.5%)

• Michele Bachmann 15%
• Rudy Giuliani 14%
• Rick Perry 14%
• Mitt Romney 12%
• Sarah Palin 10%
• Ron Paul 9%
• Herman Cain 8%
• Newt Gingrich 4%
• Tim Pawlenty 3%
• Gary Johnson 1%
• Rick Santorum 0%
• Jon Huntsman 0%
• Thaddeus McCotter 0%

Regardless of who you support, please tell me whether you would or would not like to see each of the following people run for the Republican nomination for President.

Rudy Giuliani

• Would like to see run 54%
• Would not like to see run 44%

Sarah Palin

• Would like to see run 55% (53%)
• Would not like to see run 45% (47%)

Rick Perry

• Would like to see run 50% {40%}
• Would not like to see run 33% {50%}

How satisfied are you with the field of Republican candidates running for President? Are you very satisfied, fairly satisfied, not very satisfied, or not satisfied at all?

• Very satisfied 14% {16%}
• Fairly satisfied 52% {45%}
• Not very satisfied 25% {28%}
• Not satisfied at all 9% {11%}

Survey of 455 Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents was conducted July 18-20, 2011. The margin of error is +/- 4.5 percentage points.  Results from the poll conducted June 3-7, 2011 are in square brackets. Results from the poll conducted May 24-26, 2011 are in curly brackets.  Results from the poll conducted April 9-10, 2011 are in parentheses.  Results from the poll conducted March 11-13, 2011 are in square brackets.  Results from the poll conducted January 21-23, 2011 are in curly brackets.  Results from the poll conducted October 27-30, 2010 are in parentheses.  Results from the poll conducted August 6-10, 2010 are in square brackets. Results from the poll conducted April 9-11, 2010 are in curly brackets.  Results from the poll conducted March 19-21, 2010 are in parentheses.