OH-2012 Primary: 26% Gingrich, 25% Romney, 22% Santorum, 11% Paul (PPP 1/28-29)

Public Policy Polling (D)
1/28-29/12; 626 likely Republican primary voters, 3.9% margin of error
Mode: Automated phone
PPP release

Ohio

2012 President: Republican Primary
26% Gingrich
25% Romney
22% Santorum
11% Paul

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Comments

[Rocketsfan]

07:39 PM on 02/01/2012

Polling Ohio now is worthless. How about some freaking polls of NV?

Can Paul turn in another good showing there? Will the Mormons there solidify Romney as the nominee?

Additionally I don't take the lower turnout in the primary to be an indicator of general election turnout. At this point I don't even know if I'm going to vote in my state's primary but I sure will in the GE.

Besides regardless who the GOP nominates the rest of the party will fall in line. I remember after the IN primary there were Hilary voters who said they would boycott the GE.

I find it funny that so many forget that the President elected to not compete in important primary states like MI. And yet he was able to secure the nomination and the general election.

At least this primary we haven't had to deal with the whole anti-Democratic "Super Delegates" which is nothing more than the Democratic party grasping upon the old Party Boss system in a death grip.

[Lat1]

10:51 AM on 02/01/2012

Lets see Stillow. Turnout was down 16% in FL for 4 years ago, According to the exit polls nearly 40% of GOP voters want someone else to get in the race and Romney still lost among evangelicals and those who describe themselves as "very conservative". Yup, a great night for Mitt! Btw, "I'm mot concerned about the very poor". Keep those aloof and snobby comments coming Mitt. Obama will thank you for it.

[stillow1]

10:56 AM on 02/01/2012

I'm sorry, did Obama win "every" single group of voters during his nomination process? Hillary routinely beat him among groups like white blue collar workers....I mean Obama couldn't even win his own primary's popular vote for cryin out loud! .Romney last night got mroe votes than any other GOP candidate in history ina FL primary. He got more votes than both Newt and Santorum combined! 4 states down and he's alreadygot 7.5% of delegates needed to win.

Stick to this weakness theme though, its working for you guys very very well thus far!

[StatsNo1fan]

11:57 AM on 02/01/2012

Mitt's smart. It's not like he couldn't give a few red meat speeches to get a bigger bite of the base. He's been running in the middle the whole time, figuring he's got enough to win the nomination eventually, in order to appeal to the middle, which he will need in the general. And that's the reason he consistently polls much better against B0 than the rest.

Every strategy comes with some risks, but so far so good for Mittens.

[Lat1]

12:07 PM on 02/01/2012

Stillow,

6 months ago I thought Romney was beatable, but would give Obama the most trouble. Now that I am seeing what an awful candidate he is and how tone deaf he is I want him to win the nomination. David Axelrod and David Plouffe are just chomping at the bit to turn him into spam. This one is going to be one for the books!

[Xenobion]

01:21 AM on 02/01/2012

Excited to see the new round of wounds the happy bunch inflict on Romney. Hoping Newt goes for Romney's medicare fraud scandal for Nevada!

[stillow1]

08:49 PM on 01/31/2012

Just skimming thru all the FL polls it looks like PPP was the second worst...only Insider Advantage did worse in FL than PPP did.....

They shoul dbe polling NV and the others coming up and not OH right now....

[TLSMITH]

09:32 PM on 01/31/2012

Did better than Newsmax

[StatsNo1fan]

09:32 PM on 01/31/2012

They don't wanna poll NV, after the thumping they took the last time they polled there.

[TLSMITH]

09:58 PM on 01/31/2012

By the way, did anyone notice that turnout in Florida is down 10% from 2008? I thought Republicans were supposed to be excited this year.

[Xenobion]

01:14 AM on 02/01/2012

You mean when everyone got Nevada wrong? No one took the fact that the Republican Party's caving in Nevada actually had an effect that huge that created a monstrous enthusiasm gap.