North Carolina Voters Give Their Presidential Preferences

Posted on the 20 August 2015 by Jobsanger


Public Policy Polling has released their latest state survey on the presidential race. This time they questioned North Carolina voters. The survey was done between August 14th and 16th of a random sample of 406 Republican voters and 477 Democratic voters. The margin of error for Republicans is 4.9 points, and for Democrats is 4.5 points.
Donald Trump (24%) has a huge lead among North Carolina Republicans -- 10 points over his nearest competitor. The surprise, for me, is that Ben Carson (14%) finished in second place. He scored 1 point more than Jeb Bush (13%), 4 points ahead of Ted Cruz (10%), and 5 points ahead of Marco Rubio (9%). No other candidate topped 6%.
Hillary Clinton maintains a big lead among North Carolina Democrats with 55% -- 36 points ahead of Bernie Sanders (19%). Webb finished with 5%, and no other candidate could do better than 2%.
The chart below shows the demographic breakdown of the support of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. As you can see, Clinton has a huge lead among all groups.