April 2013 Winthrop Poll Results

ROCK HILL, S.C. - The April 2013 Winthrop Poll interviewed 1069 adults living in South Carolina. The survey was in the field from April 6-14, 2013.
After weights (for sex, age, and race) have been applied, results which use all respondents have a margin of error of approximately +/- 3% at the 95% confidence level. Results that use less than the full sample will naturally have a higher margin of [...]

February 2013 Winthrop Poll Results

ROCK HILL, S.C. - The results of the latest Winthrop Poll, of 1,038 respondents living in South Carolina are in. The survey was in the field from Feb. 9-17, 2013.
After weights (for sex, age, and race) have been applied, results which use all respondents have a margin of error of approximately +/- 3.1% at the 95% confidence level. Results [...]

Nikki Haley’s Approval Rating Climbs

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s approval rating among all South Carolinians has climbed by nearly four points over the last two months, according to February polling data released by Winthrop University.
Haley’s approval rating currently stands at 42.5 percent – up from 38.4 percent in December. Meanwhile her disapproval rating is 38.4 percent – down from 41.3 [...]

December 2012 Winthrop Poll

RESULTS OF LATEST WINTHROP POLL ARE IN
 
ALMOST ONE MONTH TO-THE-DAY AFTER PRES. OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION,
48% OF SC RESPONDENTS SAY THEY APPROVE OF HIS JOB PERFORMANCE, WHILE 41% GIVE IT A THUMBS DOWN
 
RESPONDENTS ALMOST EVENLY DIVIDED WHEN ASKED
TO ASSESS GOV. HALEY’S JOB PERFORMANCE
 
MORE THAN 90% SAY THEY DO NOT CONSIDER
THEMSELVES MEMBERS OF THE TEA PARTY
 
38% SAY SC [...]

Nikki Haley Approval Rating: 38 Percent

S.C. GOVERNOR GETS LOW MARKS IN NEW WINTHROP POLL
S.C. Governor Nikki Haley continues to earn anemic approval ratings from the people of South Carolina, according to the results of a new Winthrop University poll released this week.
Haley’s approval rating among all South Carolinians currently stands at a dismal 38.3 percent – while 41.3 percent of [...]

Winthrop Poll Of SC Seventh Congressional District

RESULTS OF LATEST WINTHROP POLL OF VOTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA’S NEW 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ARE IN
IN THE RACE FOR REPRESENTATIVE TO THE U.S. CONGRESS, 
AMONG LIKELY VOTERS, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE TOM RICE LEADS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE GLORIA BROMELL TINUBU BY ALMOST 13 %
HOWEVER, 10 % SAY THEY’RE STILL UNDECIDED
ALMOST ONE-THIRD OF REGISTERED VOTERS SAY THEY WERE UNAWARE
 THAT A [...]

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NIKKI HALEY APPROVAL RATING
QUESTION: I can’t believe her [...]

Nikki Haley Gets Her Latest Report Card

Four months after a Winthrop University poll showed S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley with an abysmal 34.6 percent approval rating, the Palmetto State’s scandal-scarred chief executive continues to earn poor marks from voters.
According to the results of the latest Winthrop poll – released Tuesday – Haley has a 37.3 percent approval rating among all South Carolinians. [...]

April 2012 Winthrop Poll

RESULTS OF LATEST WINTHROP POLL TAKEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA
THOSE POLLED EVENLY DIVIDED ON HOW GOV. HALEY IS DOING HER JOB
BUT ALMOST 60% OF REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS,
WHO ARE REGISTERED VOTERS AND LEAN REPUBLICAN,
GIVE HER A THUMBS-UP
COMPARED WITH RESULTS OF MOST RECENT WINTHROP POLL (FEB. 2012),
ALMOST 25% MORE RESPONDENTS SAY S.C. IS ON RIGHT [...]

SCGOP: Haley Poll Is Biased, Inaccurate

Pay no attention to those God-awful poll numbers splashed all over the front page of every major newspaper in the state … S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t really that unpopular.
That’s the message coming out of the South Carolina Republican Party, anyway.
Despite the bad blood that exists between them, the SCGOP is defending Haley in the [...]

Newt Gingrich Clear SC Frontrunner

Apparently the most “Republican” state in the nation doesn’t care how “Republican” its presidential nominee is …
Clever with words Newt Gingrich – whose record of betraying limited government principles is second only to that of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among 2012 GOP presidential aspirants – is nonetheless supported by 38.4 percent of likely South [...]

Winthrop Poll: Newt Gingrich Gets Nod Over Mitt Romney

December 2011 Winthrop Poll Results
Among Those Likely to Vote in SC GOP Presidential Primary
Newt Gingrich Gets Nod Over Mitt Romney 38.4% to 21.5% 
Rick Perry Comes in Distant Third With 9%
  
Among SC Democrats, Republicans and Independents Combined
81.4% Disapprove of the Way Congress is Doing its Job
47.8% Feel Same Way About Obama
But Nearly 60% Say [...]