A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released today covered a lot of different topics. One interesting note was that they decided to do a head-to-head with President Obama against Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and Senator John Thune. Here is the match-up results. John Thune actually does better than Sarah Palin. Both are far behind Mitt Romney in their match-ups:
Methodology The poll results contained in this book are from a survey conducted by the polling organizations of Peter D. Hart and Bill McInturff for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal from December 9-13, 2010. The survey was conducted by telephone among a cross section of 1,000 adults (including a sample of 200 interviews among adults who only use a cell phone).Cross tabs can be found by clicking icon below:
The national sample for this poll was drawn in the following manner: Individuals were selected proportionate to the nation's population in accordance with a probability sample design that gives all landline telephone numbers (both listed and unlisted) an equal chance to be included. Registered voters, age 18 years old or over were selected by a systematic procedure to provide a balance of respondents by sex. The cell phone sample was drawn from a list of cell phone users nationally, and respondents were screened to ensure that their cell phone is their only phone.
The data's margin of error is ±3.1 percentage points for 1,000 adults at the 95% confidence. Sample tolerances for subgroups are larger. Minimal weights have been applied to educational, attainment, sex and age