Rasmussen 2012 Presidential Favorability Poll
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.
Mitt Romney
Among Independents
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.
Mitt Romney
- Very favorable 9% (11%)
- Somewhat favorable 36% (42%)
- Somewhat unfavorable 26% (23%)
- Very unfavorable 23% (15%)
- Very favorable 16%
- Somewhat favorable 27%
- Somewhat unfavorable 15%
- Very unfavorable 35%
- Very favorable 9%
- Somewhat favorable 31%
- Somewhat unfavorable 32%
- Very unfavorable 21%
- Very favorable 10%
- Somewhat favorable 23%
- Somewhat unfavorable 21%
- Very unfavorable 41%
- Remaining candidates are the best options 36%
- Better for someone else to enter race 43%
Among Independents
- Remaining candidates are the best options 31%
- Better for someone else to enter race 45%
Inside the numbers:
Among Republican voters, Santorum is the most popular with favorables of 76%, including 33% who view him very favorably. Romney is seen favorably by 74%, but that includes just 16% with a very favorable opinion of him.
In fact, Gingrich, while earning overall favorables of just 60% among GOP voters, has a slightly more passionate following than Romney since his total includes 19% who regard him very favorably.
Forty-two percent (42%) of Republican voters have a favorable opinion of Paul, while 51% view him unfavorably. That includes seven percent (7%) with a very favorable opinion and 17% with a very unfavorable one.
Paul is the best-liked of the candidates among unaffiliated voters with overall favorables of 48%. Romney is seen favorably by 39% of these voters, Santorum by 32% and Gingrich by 23%.
Union members are evenly divided when it comes to Paul, but most regard the other three Republicans unfavorably. Tea Party members strongly prefer Santorum and Gingrich to Romney, although 75% of these voters now share at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the GOP front-runner.
By a 50% to 30% margin, conservative voters think the four remaining Republican candidates are the party’s best options. Fifty-one percent (51%) of moderates and 54% of liberals say it would be better for the GOP if someone else entered the race.
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