http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/06/03/survey-iowa-voters-favor-obama-over-romney-all-other-republicans/Survey: Iowa voters favor Obama over Romney, all other Republicans
In Iowa, Democratic President Barack Obama would beat Republican Mitt Romney by 9 points and would handily defeat the rest of the GOP field, a new survey shows.
Romney, the current national frontrunner, does the best of a lineup of five Republicans, but Iowa voters prefer Obama, 49 percent to 40 percent, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released today.
That margin is nearly the same as Obama’s 10-point victory in Iowa in 2008 against Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain, pollster Tom Jensen pointed out in a news release.
Iowa voters asked if the candidates for president next year were Obama and Tim Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, picked the Democrat by a 12-point margin, 49 percent to 37 percent.
After Romney and Pawlenty, retired Georgia businessman Herman Cain fares the best, but trails trails Obama by 18 points, 50-32.
Cain is followed by Alaska’s Sarah Palin, who falls 20 points behind Obama, 55 percent to 35 percent, then Georgia’s Newt Gingrich, a former U.S. speaker, who is 21 points down at 54 percent to 33 percent, the survey found.
The survey of 1,387 Iowa voters was taken May 27-30. The margin of error for the +/-2.6 percent.
Jensen said when PPP polled Iowa in mid-April, Obama was tied with Arkansas Republican Mike Huckabee but Romney was only only 4 points behind.
Obama’s numbers have improved throughout the country in the month since the killing of terrorist Osama bin Laden.
