Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #13343
 
Huckabee Starts with Strong Base in Proportionally Allocated Ohio; Will It Be There in March? Will He? In a Republican Primary today, 02/12/08, the day of the Virginia and Maryland Republican primaries and 21 days until the Ohio Republican Primary, Mike Huckabee supporters have not yet gotten the "rally round the nominee" memo, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WCPO-TV Cincinnati, WCMH-TV Columbus, and WEWS-TV Cleveland. McCain is at 50%, and well-positioned to capture a majority of Ohio's 88 proportionally allocated delegates. But because Ohio is not Winner-Take-All, Huckabee's 36% is significant, even if only symbolically. Among Conservatives, among those who attend church regularly and among Pro-Life voters, Huckabee and McCain are effectively tied. Among Moderates, McCain leads by 41 points. Among Pro-Choice voters McCain leads by 43 points.
 
Filtering / Timing: 2,000 state of Ohio adults were interviewed 02/10/08 and 02/11/08. Of them, 1,812 were registered to vote. Of them, 524 were determined by SurveyUSA to have already voted, or to be likely to vote on or before the 03/04/08 primary. All interviews were completed after results in Louisiana, Kansas and Washington were known, and during media coverage of Huckabee's strong showing in all 3 states. All interviews completed before results of the 02/12/08 Virginia, District of Columbia and Maryland primaries were known.
 
If the Republican Primary for President of the United States were today, would you vote for ...(names rotated) Mike Huckabee? John McCain? Ron Paul? Or some other Republican?
524 Likely & Actual VotersAllAlready Voted?GenderAge<50 / 50+RaceParty AffiliationIdeologyAttend Religious ServiceAbortionChange Your MindTop Issue For Next PresidentRegion
Margin of Sampling Error: ± 4.4%Already Likely VMaleFemale18-3435-4950-6465+18-4950+WhiteBlackHispanicOtherRepublicDemocratIndependConservaModerateLiberalRegularlOccasionAlmost NPro-lifePro-choiCould ChMind MadEconomyEnvironmHealth CIraqTerrorisSocial SEducatioImmigratWestCentralEast
Huckabee36%**36%36%36%36%39%37%29%38%34%36%******36%**44%45%25%**43%27%24%44%21%36%36%33%**39%37%42%****38%39%30%35%
McCain50%**50%49%52%38%49%52%61%45%56%51%******52%**32%42%66%**44%54%61%44%64%41%54%55%**47%54%45%****46%50%51%50%
Paul6%**6%8%4%17%5%4%2%9%3%6%******5%**15%6%3%**6%8%6%6%8%8%6%9%**4%6%4%****5%3%12%7%
Other5%**5%6%4%4%7%5%4%6%5%4%******5%**5%6%3%**4%10%5%5%5%9%3%3%**3%4%7%****10%5%5%5%
Undecided2%**2%1%4%5%1%2%3%3%2%3%******2%**5%1%2%**3%1%3%2%2%5%1%0%**7%0%1%****1%3%2%2%
Total100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%100%
Composition of Likely & Actual Voters100%3%97%60%40%20%33%26%21%53%47%96%2%1%1%85%5%9%59%26%4%59%21%20%68%29%33%66%38%2%7%10%19%3%3%13%42%21%37%
 
 
** Too few respondents of this type were interviewed for this data to be meaningful.