That Massachusetts is where Mitt Romney was once governor or that the next primary is in South Carolina are some of the basic facts about the Republican candidates and the presidential race that many voters are unaware of, according to a new poll.
Just over half of those surveyed, 53 percent, correctly answered Massachusetts when asked where Romney served as governor, according to a Pew Research Center poll. And only 45 percent of voters were able to identify South Carolina as the state where the next primary will be held, while just 44 percent identified Ron Paul as the GOP hopeful who opposes U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
Continue ReadingSixty-nine percent of voters gave the correct answer of Newt Gingrich when asked which GOP 2012 candidate once served as House speaker, the survey found.
A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats answered each of the above questions correctly. All in all, 43 percent of voters gave correct answers to at least three of the four questions, or 48 percent of Republicans and 41 percent of Democrats.
Among registered voters, men were far more likely than women to know the answers to at least three of the questions, 56 percent to 32 percent.
And among Republican and Republican-leaning voters, tea partiers proved to be far more knowledgeable about the GOP candidates and the 2012 race than GOP voters who disagree or have no opinion of the conservative movement ? 73 percent of tea party voters correctly answered at least three of the questions in the survey, compared with just 31 percent of non-tea party GOP voters.
The Pew Research Center poll was conducted Jan. 4-8 among 1,507 adults and 1,165 registered voters. Among the total sample and registered voters, the margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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