American Research Group, Inc.

South Carolina

Presidential Primary Preference:

 

South Carolina
Likely Republican Primary Voters Jan 15-16 Jan 17-18
Giuliani 4% 3%
Huckabee 23% 33%
Hunter 1% 1%
Keyes 2% 1%
McCain 33% 26%
Paul 1% 2%
Romney 20% 9%
Thompson 13% 21%
Undecided 3% 4%

 

 

South Carolina
Likely Republican Primary Voters Dec 06 Feb 07 Apr 07 May 07 Jun 07 Jul 07 Aug 07 Sep 07 Oct 07 Nov 07
Brownback - - 1% 1% 1% - 2% 1% ni ni
Gilmore - 1% 1% 1% 1% ni ni ni ni ni
Gingrich 15% 10% 6% 6% 6% 7% 6% 7% ni ni
Giuliani 28% 29% 23% 23% 22% 28% 26% 23% 23% 23%
Hagel - - 1% - - ni ni ni ni ni
Huckabee 1% 1% 2% 1% 3% 3% 9% 1% 5% 18%
Hunter - 1% - 1% 2% 1% - 1% 2% 2%
Keyes ni ni ni ni ni ni ni - 1% -
McCain 35% 35% 36% 32% 23% 10% 12% 15% 13% 10%
Pataki - - - - - ni ni ni ni ni
Paul ni - - - - 3% 2% 2% 4% 3%
Romney 5% 5% 6% 10% 8% 7% 9% 26% 29% 21%
Tancredo ni 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% -
F Thompson ni ni 10% 13% 19% 27% 21% 10% 10% 13%
T Thompson - - 1% 1% - - ni ni ni ni
Undecided 16% 18% 12% 11% 14% 13% 12% 13% 12% 10%

 

Preference by party:

 

South Carolina
Likely Republican Primary Voters Republicans (81%) Independents (19%)
Giuliani 2% 5%
Huckabee 37% 19%
Hunter 1% -
Keyes 1% -
McCain 22% 48%
Paul 1% 4%
Romney 10% 5%
Thompson 22% 15%
Undecided 4% 4%

 


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 Republican primary voters living in South Carolina (487 Republicans and 113 independent voters).

Sample Dates: January 17-18, 2008

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

Question Wording:

If the 2008 Republican presidential preference primary were being held today between (names rotated) Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Alan Keyes, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson, for whom would you vote?

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

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