American Research Group, Inc.

South Carolina

Presidential Primary Preference:

 

South Carolina
Likely Democratic Primary Voters Jan 15-16 Jan 17-18 Jan 22-23 Jan 24-25
Clinton 38% 39% 36% 36%
Edwards 9% 10% 12% 22%
Gravel - - - -
Kucinich 1% 1% 1% 1%
Obama 44% 45% 45% 39%
Undecided 8% 5% 6% 2%

 

 

South Carolina
Likely Democratic Primary Voters Dec 06 Feb 07 Apr 07 May 07 Jun 07 Jul 07 Aug 07 Sep 07 Oct 07 Nov 07
Biden 2% 2% 3% 2% 3% 3% 2% 2% 6% 6%
Clark 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% ni ni ni ni
Clinton 34% 36% 36% 34% 37% 29% 32% 41% 41% 45%
Dodd - 1% 1% 1% 2% 1% - 1% 1% 1%
Edwards 31% 20% 18% 30% 22% 18% 24% 7% 18% 12%
Gravel - - - - - - - - - -
Kerry 3% ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni
Kucinich 2% 1% 3% 2% 2% 1% 2% 1% 1% 2%
Obama 10% 25% 24% 18% 21% 33% 21% 30% 19% 21%
Richardson 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% 5% 1% 2%
Vilsack - ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni
Undecided 15% 14% 13% 11% 11% 12% 17% 13% 13% 11%

 

Preference by party:

 

South Carolina
Likely Democratic Primary Voters Democrats (74%) Independents (26%)
Clinton 36% 35%
Edwards 21% 25%
Gravel - -
Kucinich 1% -
Obama 39% 38%
Undecided 3% 2%

 

South Carolina
Likely Democratic Primary Voters White (53%) African
American (47%)
Clinton 45% 25%
Edwards 33% 9%
Gravel - -
Kucinich 1% -
Obama 19% 61%
Undecided 2% 5%

 

 


About this Survey -

Survey Sponsor: American Research Group, Inc.

The American Research Group has been conducting surveys of voters since 1985.

Sample Size: 600 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of likely Democratic primary voters living in South Carolina (443 Democrats and 157 independent voters).

Sample Dates: January 24-25, 2008

Margin of Error: ± 4 percentage points, 95% of the time, on questions where opinion is evenly split.

Question Wording:

If the 2008 Democratic presidential preference primary were being held today between (names rotated) Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and Barack Obama, for whom would you vote?

Would you say that you definitely plan to vote in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, that you might vote in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, or that you will probably not vote in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary?

When it comes to your ethnic or racial background, do you consider yourself to be white, African American, or something else?

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