Poll Watch: Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground 2012 Presidential Survey

Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground 2012 Presidential Poll

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

• Rick Santorum 27%
• Mitt Romney 26%
• Newt Gingrich 6%
• Ron Paul 6%
• Undecided 35%

GENERAL ELECTION

• Mitt Romney 49%
• Barack Obama 40%

• Rick Santorum 46%
• Barack Obama 41% 

Survey of 503 likely voters, including an oversample of 503 likely GOP primary voters, was conducted March 26-28, 2012, by Republican pollster Christine Matthews, the president of Alexandria, Va.-based Bellwether Research, and Democratic pollster Fred Yang, of D.C.-based Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group. The margin of error for each sample is +/- 4.4 percentage points.

Inside the numbers:

President Obama's approval rating in the state is just 39 percent.