52% See Romney As Mainstream, 45% Say Same of Obama
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Most voters now see Mitt Romney as politically mainstream, but they're evenly divided over whether President Obama's political views are mainstream or extreme.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds that 52% say it's more accurate to describe the putative Republican nominee's views as mainstream, while 30% regard them as extreme. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided.
When it comes to the president's political views, 45% of voters say they're in the mainstream, but an identical 45% say it's more accurate to describe them as extreme. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
This national survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on May 30-31, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .