New Mexico: Obama 52%, Romney 36%
President Obama continues to hold a double-digit advantage over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in New Mexico.
A new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Obama earning 52% support to Romney’s 36%. Nine percent (9%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
If Rick Santorum is the Republican nominee, Obama leads the former Pennsylvania senator by a similar 53% to 38% margin. Given that matchup, five percent (5%) favor another candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
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This New Mexico survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on April 3, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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