Question:
If the election for President were today, would you vote for Mitt Romney the Republican,
or Barack Obama the Democrat, or some other candidate? [IF UNDECIDED: At this
moment, do you lean more towards Romney or more towards Obama?] [NAMES WERE
ROTATED]

Poll Demographics

About this Poll
The registered voters were:
Obama: 51%
Romney: 38%
Other: 3%
Undecided: 8%

The Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll was conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute on July 18 to 22, 2012 with a statewide random sample of 678 registered voters, including 528 contacted on a landline telephone and 150 on a cell phone. Live interviewing services were provided by Braun Research, Inc. and the telephone sample was obtained from Survey Sampling International. Monmouth is responsible for all aspects of the survey questionnaire design, data weighting and analysis. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling has a maximum margin of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. Sampling error increases as the sample size decreases, so statements based on various population subgroups, such as separate figures reported by gender or party identification, are subject to more error than are statements based on the total sample. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.