Question:
If the election for South Carolina Governor were held today would you vote for:

About this Poll
The October 2014 Winthrop Poll interviewed 1082 LIKELY VOTERS in upcoming South Carolina statewide election. After weights (for sex, age, and race) have been applied, results which use all respondents have a margin of error of approximately +/- 3% at the 95% confidence level.

The survey was in the field from 9/21-9/28, 2014. Phone calls were made during weekday evenings, all day Saturday, and Sunday afternoon and evening. Weekday daytime calls are not made to avoid oversampling those who are more likely to be at home during the day (e.g. retirees, stay-at-home-moms, etc.). Conducting weekend calls is important to avoid systematically excluding certain populations (such as those who may work 2nd or 3rd shift during the week).

The survey used (1) Registration Based Sampling (wireless and landline phone numbers of registered voters in South Carolina purchased from Aristotle/VoterListsOnline) (2)Random Digit Dialing (RDD) and (3) wireless phone number sampling. Both RDD and wireless samples are crucial to ensure no adult in the geographical area of interest is systematically excluded from the sample. Both the RDD sample and the wireless sample were purchased from Survey Sampling International (SSI).