In a Georgia Primary today, former Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich defeats Mitt Romney, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WXIA-TV Atlanta. Gingrich leads by 17 points among those reached on a landline telephone. Romney leads by 8 among those unreachable on a landline phone. When the two groups are proportionately blended, it’s Gingrich 45%, […]

14 pollsters competed in the Florida Republican Primary. Only 2 pollsters released real-time poll results on how cell phone respondents and home phone respondents voted, so scholars could compare the two groups. Turns out: those 2 pollsters, Marist Institute and SurveyUSA, had the smallest error (the best performance) of the 14 competing pollsters.
Not all pollsters […]

Mitt Romney is poised for a decisive win in Tuesday’s 01/31/12 Florida Presidential Primary, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WFLA-TV in Tampa. The victory will give Romney 50 additional delegates, and bring his total to 69, on the march to the 1,144 delegates needed to be nominated by the Republican Party. Because […]

50% of Californians contacted immediately after President Barack Obama concluded his state of the union address Tuesday night, 01/24/12, said the speech was “just right,” compared to 29% who thought speech too ambitious and 9% thought it too timid. By 2:1, those who watched the speech say Obama will be re-elected in November 2012.
57% […]

For Governor: Rob McKenna (R) 3 points atop Jay Inslee (D), a tight fight as each previous SurveyUSA poll has shown. McKenna today is seen as stronger on managing the state budget and on education. Inslee is seen as stronger on the environment and slightly stronger on social issues. 1 in 3 voters, disproportionately Independents […]

An overwhelming majority of Florida Republicans tell SurveyUSA that they will watch tonight’s 01/23/12 NBC Republican Presidential debate, and of those who will watch, nearly half say they may change their mind depending on what they see, according to an exclusive poll conducted for WFLA-TV in Tampa.
50% of debate watchers say their mind is made […]

3 weeks to the Florida GOP Presidential Primary, Mitt Romney is positioned to capture the state’s 50 delegates, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WFLA-TV in Tampa.On the eve of the New Hampshire Primary, and before South Carolina votes, Florida sets up: Romney at 36%, Newt Gingrich at 25%, Rick Santorum at […]

In an election for President of the United States today, Democrat Barack Obama holds Washington State’s 12 Electoral College Votes, according to a SurveyUSA poll for KING-TV Seattle. In head-to-head hypothetical elections today, it is:
* Barack Obama 49%
* Mitt Romney 41%
* Democratic Margin of Victory: 8 points.
* […]

11 months till ballots are mailed in the election for President of the United States, incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama is poised to hold Oregon’s 7 electoral votes, according to a poll for KATU-2 TV news in Portland.
Today, in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups between the two Republican front-runners, it’s:
* Obama 48%
* Romney 40%
* Obama 51%
* […]

Sure, it’s early, and yes, a lot will change, but in an preview of the 2012 Presidential election, cell phone voters (those without a home telephone, typically undercounted in opinion polls), vote sufficiently Democrat to keep Mitt Romney to just a single-digit lead over Barack Obama, and, for the moment, cause Obama to defeat Newt […]