PPP Poll - Mississippi GOP Presidential Primary

[tsai3904]

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/04/barbour-bryant-lead-in-mississippi.html

PPP surveyed 400 usual Mississippi Republican primary voters from March 24th to 27th.
The survey’s margin of error is +/-4.9%.

Results:

Haley Barbour - 37%
Mike Huckabee - 19%
Newt Gingrich - 10%
Sarah Palin - 10%
Mitt Romney - 6%
Michele Bachmann - 5%
Tim Pawlenty - 3%
Ron Paul - 2%


Results without Barbour:

Mike Huckabee - 35%
Sarah Palin - 20%
Newt Gingrich - 18%
Mitt Romney - 8%
Michele Bachmann - 5%
Ron Paul - 4%
Tim Pawlenty - 3%

[One Last Battle!]

This is the state where interracial marriage is opposed by something like 50% of the population. I am not especially worried.

[tsai3904]

This is the state where interracial marriage is opposed by something like 50% of the population. I am not especially worried.

This is from the same poll:

Do you think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?
Legal - 40%
Illegal - 46%
Not sure - 14%

[Legend1104]

Thanks for trying to make my state look bad.

MS has the highest minority population in blacks in the nation. Most states don't even have to address this topic anyway. How many other states have been asked that question in a PPP poll like this. Don't you see that is a little strange that it was even a question at all?

[sailingaway]

Sure, it was biased to begin with, and then checking to see which candidate was liked MORE by that group was a pure smear campaign (still glad it was Palin, not Ron, though!) All the same, I'm hoping you guys have open primaries....

[Matt Collins]

I'm from there and I can tell you it's a great place even with it's flaws. But no, it's not the most forward thinking land in all of the country.

[Jeremy]

This is the state where interracial marriage is opposed by something like 50% of the population. I am not especially worried.

46% of Republicans.

[nate895]

This is from the same poll:

Do you think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?
Legal - 40%
Illegal - 46%
Not sure - 14%

That's just ridiculous.


I'm from there and I can tell you it's a great place even with it's flaws. But no, it's not the most forward thinking land in all of the country.

I have no problem with not being forward thinking, but to hold onto racism and other just plain bigoted idea isn't principled anti-modernism, it's just bigotry.

[ChaosControl]

I'm from there and I can tell you it's a great place even with it's flaws. But no, it's not the most forward thinking land in all of the country.

If San Francisco is the bastion of "forward thinking", I think I'd go with Mississippi.

[sailingaway]

If San Francisco is the bastion of "forward thinking", I think I'd go with Mississippi.

Yeah, racism isn't everything, there are a lot of different ways to be a jerk.

[kpfareal]

I'm going to be moving to Mississippi here in a few months!

[JCLibertarian]

This is the state where interracial marriage is opposed by something like 50% of the population. I am not especially worried.

Exactly, it would be one thing if they personally opposed to it(because as a libertarian, I don't care to socially engineer), because they could still very well be receptive to libertarianism. However, anyone who is so statist and controlling over other people's voluntary interaction with others would never be receptive to the message of Ron Paul. I would wager a good deal of Americans oppose interracial marriage on a personal level, probably not a majority, but more than polls indicate. But they aren't statist d-bags like the people in Mississippi.

[TheDriver]

If San Francisco is the bastion of "forward thinking", I think I'd go with Mississippi.

QFT~! Me2

[oyarde]

Thanks for trying to make my state look bad.

MS has the highest minority population in blacks in the nation. Most states don't even have to address this topic anyway. How many other states have been asked that question in a PPP poll like this. Don't you see that is a little strange that it was even a question at all?

Yes , I do find that question strange .

[Matt Collins]

One other thing to consider is that in MS, it probably ain't just white people that agree with this. It would be interesting to see the crosstabs on this.