South
Carolina
Presidential
primary preference:
| South
Carolina |
| Likely Republican
Primary Voters |
Feb
12-13 |
Feb
14-16 |
Feb
16-17
|
Feb
17-18 |
|
| Bush |
10% |
9% |
8% |
9% |
| Carson |
2% |
3% |
3% |
4% |
| Cruz |
12% |
14% |
13% |
13% |
| Kasich |
15% |
14% |
15% |
14% |
| Rubio |
14% |
16% |
20% |
22% |
| Trump |
35% |
33% |
33% |
34% |
| Other |
2% |
2% |
1% |
1% |
| Undecided |
10% |
8% |
7% |
3% |
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*= Less than 1/2 of 1% - = None
|
Preference
by self-reported party:
| South Carolina |
Likely Republican
Primary Voters |
Republicans
(74%) |
Other
(26%) |
|
|
|
| Bush |
10% |
7% |
| Carson |
5% |
2% |
| Cruz |
15% |
8% |
| Kasich |
11% |
24% |
| Rubio |
24% |
17% |
| Trump |
33% |
37% |
| Other |
* |
1% |
| Undecided |
2% |
4% |
Preference
by age:
| South Carolina |
Likely Republican
Primary Voters |
18
to 49 (40%) |
50 and
older (60%) |
|
|
|
| Bush |
5% |
12% |
| Carson |
5% |
4% |
| Cruz |
12% |
14% |
| Kasich |
17% |
13% |
| Rubio |
21% |
23% |
| Trump |
36% |
33% |
| Other |
1% |
* |
| Undecided |
3% |
2% |
Preference by sex:
| South Carolina |
Likely Republican
Primary Voters |
Male (52%) |
Female
(48%) |
|
|
|
| Bush |
8% |
11% |
| Carson |
4% |
4% |
| Cruz |
10% |
17% |
| Kasich |
14% |
15% |
| Rubio |
21% |
23% |
| Trump |
39% |
29% |
| Other |
* |
1% |
| Undecided |
4% |
3% |
About this Survey -
Survey Sponsor: American Research Group, Inc.
The American Research Group has been conducting
surveys of voters since 1985.
Sample Size: 401 completed telephone interviews
among a random sample of likely Republican primary voters living in
South Carolina (297 self-reported Republicans and 104 self-reported
independents and Democrats.
Sample Dates: February 17-18, 2016
Margin of Error: ± 5 percentage points, 95% of the
time, on questions where opinion is evenly split.
Question Wording:
If the 2016 Republican
presidential primary were being held today between (names
rotated) Jeb Bush, Ben
Carson, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco
Rubio, and Donald Trump, for whom would you vote?
Using a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning that you
will definitely not vote in the 2016 Republican
presidential primary and 10 meaning that you will definitely
vote
in the 2016
Republican presidential primary, what number would you give
as your chance of voting in the 2016 Republican
presidential primary?
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