The crosstabs from the PPP South Carolina poll posted here, from the original pdf link here.
Issues Voters Are Most Concerned About:
- Economy & jobs 27%
- Immigration 21%
- War in Iraq 21%
- Morals & family values 16%
- taxes 7%
- Education 3%
- Health Care 3%
- Other 2%
Voters support the following candidates who feel each issue is the most pressing:
War in Iraq:
- John McCain 36%
- Mitt Romney 17%
- Fred Thompson 15%
- Mike Huckabee 15%
- Rudy Giuliani 8%
- Ron Paul 2%
Morals & Family Values
- Mike Huckabee 52%
- John McCain 16%
- Fred Thompson 9%
- Mitt Romney 8%
- Ron Paul 3%
- Rudy Giuliani 1%
Education:
- John McCain 25%
- Mike Huckabee 19%
- Fred Thompson 13%
- Rudy Giuliani 13%
- Mitt Romney 12%
- Ron Paul 6%
Economy & Jobs
- John McCain 37%
- Mike Huckabee 18%
- Mitt Romney 16%
- Fred Thompson 10%
- Ron Paul 7%
- Rudy Giuliani 4%
Taxes:
- John McCain 24%
- Mitt Romney 21%
- Mike Huckabee 20%
- Fred Thompson 17%
- Ron Paul 6%
- Rudy Giuliani 3%
Health Care:
- John McCain 49%
- Mike Huckabee 12%
- Rudy Giuliani 10%
- Mitt Romney 8%
- Fred Thompson 6%
- Ron Paul 0%
Immigration:
- Fred Thompson 26%
- Mitt Romney 26%
- John McCain 18%
- Mike Huckabee 11%
- Ron Paul 6%
- Rudy Giuliani 6%
January 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
That’s quite scary really. JMac at 37% on economy and jobs, then Mike at 18% ahead of Mitt Romney at 16%? Mike ahead of Mitt when it comes to economic expertise?
Interesting that Mitt is only at 8% when it comes to healthcare. If he’d run as a problem solver (e.g. my healthcare plan in MA) his numbers there would be much higher…
January 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
What’s pretty obvious here is that the voters have little awareness of where these candidates stand on the issues. One unfortunate aspect of the compressed schedule is that they are not likely to learn that much more before they vote.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Uneducated voters.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Uneducated, uninformed voters. Very sad.
I’m going to be making phone calls for Mitt this week to folks in Michigan AND South Carolina!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Pretty sad.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
3, 4, 5. Here here.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
4, Yeah because there’s no way anyone with intelligence would disagree. I guess there was a time when I thought you Rombots were unfairly hammered. But over the last couple weeks it has been shown that you’re sore losers, with a lot of arrogance too. As MWS has said some people can accept that people will disagree with them on a candidate without chalking it up to a character defect. That ability seems to be lost on many of you RomBots.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
These numbers are utterly twisted.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
#7 – Wouldn’t you admit that these crosstabs are a bit irrational given your understanding of the candidates relative strengths and weaknesses? Saying that the general electorate seems uneducated (on the candidates and issues) or that they are “uninformed” doesn’t connote a “character defect.”
It just happens to be an accurate assessment of their current level of understanding.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
These crosstabs are misleading. As an example, a voter might care the most about healthcare but maybe that voter also cares more about “integrity/character” then “positions on issues”.
In other words just because my most important issue is X and I’m voting for candidate Y DOES NOT MEAN I necessarily think candidate Y is best on issue X.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Get it into your heads that none of these candidates except Thompson and Paul have a chance in the general because conservatives will NOT vote for McCain or Romney or Huckabee (Julie Annie is out of the race).
You cannot win against the Liberals without conservatives backing you.
McCain is a RINO. He votes for every feminist-inspired law possible. He certainly does not represent males where Hillary is arrogantly asking women to vote for her because she is a woman.
McCain is Hillary-lite.
It is either Thompson or Paul.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Guiliani is out of the race, but Paul and Thompson are still in? McCain, Romney and Huckabee will bleed conservative support but Paul won’t? What are you smoking man!
January 14th, 2008 at 9:13 am
of course their twisted. it is becuase those who support their candidate firmly vote for them as best on all issues whether they are good on them or not.
that together with just pure ignorance.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I don’t know what’s going to happen in Florida and on February 5th, but I can say this: I was in midtown on 9/11 when tragedy struck, and I can say with authority that Rudy’s performance on that day and in the days afterward was heroic. From great tragedies, great heroes emerge, and that’s exactly what happened on that day. Rudy’s actions during the greatest crisis in American history is enough to earn him my vote, and anyone who says that’s “all” Rudy talks about should be ashamed of themselves for making light of an event that killed 3,000 Americans on American soil. If you were in NYC on 9/11, you know exactly what I’m talking about. The fact is, however, Rudy spends the vast majority of his time talking about how he plans to bring accountability to Washington, and get rid of corruption, in the same way he did it in NYC. Rudy took a failing city, and turned it back into the “Greatest City in the World.” This takes vision, guts, determination, and courage – and Rudy is the only candidate who has what it takes to defeat “business as usual” in DC. Cut taxes, cut spending, stay strong – that’s Rudy. If you think the next 4 to 8 years are going to be a smooth ride, vote for any other candidate – they’re all typical politicians. But if you think we’re in for some major changes requiring big decisions, your only choice is Rudy. As for electability, the social conservatives out there need to understand something – the President is not going to be able to overturn Roe v. Wade! That’s not how it works – Rudy will, however, appoint strict constructionist judges who will apply the constitution, and not “interpret” it as they see fit. That’s good enough for me.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Don’t read more into this than is there. What some people are thinking of as a ranking of candidates on issues is really “Voters support the following candidates who feel each issue is the most pressing”.
Being high on an area you’re weak (like McCain & the economy) shows potential for lost voters.