Question:
If the presidential election this fall ends up as a choice between President Obama and former governor Mitt Romney, would you vote for Obama or Romney?

Obama 40%
Romney 42%
Undecided/no opinion 18%

Poll Demographics

About this Poll
Fifty-nine percent of the 488 telephone interviews were conducted in Maricopa County, 16 percent in Pima County and 25 percent in Arizona’s other counties. Forty-nine percent of the voters interviewed were men; 51 percent women. The sample was weighted to be 36 percent Republican, 30 percent Democrat and 34 percent registered independents or “others.” The sample was selected so as to include representative samples cell phone users and Hispanics. The sampling error for the statewide sample survey is plus or minus 4.4 percent. The interviews were conducted in the second and third weeks of April 2012. (The overall sample was surveyed April 10-14 and April 16-18. The Hispanic oversample was surveyed April 19-20.)

The poll was directed by Merrill, who also is a professor emeritus in the Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU. Dr. Tara Blanc, a lecturer in ASU’s School of Public Affairs, was the poll’s associate director.