Washington Post-Pew Research Center Poll
This poll was conducted for The Washington Post and the Pew Research Center by telephone May 26 - 29, 2011, among a random national sample of 1,000 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI) of Princeton, NJ.
*= less than 0.5 percent
1. Thinking about the candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination, if you had to use one single word to describe your overall impression of this group of candidates, what would that one word be?
Democrat/ Republican/
All Lean-Dem Lean-Rep
Positive 12 5 22
Negative 44 52 37
Neutral 19 19 18
No opinion/other 25 23 23
Unweighted word counts (all words mentioned by four or more respondents):
Democrat/ Republican/
All Lean-Dem Lean-Rep
Not impressed/Unimpressed 42 19 17
Disappointed/Disappointing 21 7 13
Weak 21 10 11
Good 18 6 11
Incompetent/Incapable 17 10 4
Pathetic 16 9 7
Not interested 14 9 4
Unqualified/Not qualified 14 12 2
Idiots 13 9 1
Poor 12 8 2
Confused/Confusing/Confusion 11 2 7
Hopeful 10 0 8
Interesting 10 4 5
Mediocre 10 6 4
Not good 9 3 4
Fair 8 2 4
Liars 8 4 2
Pitiful 8 5 1
Ridiculous 8 6 0
Unknown 8 4 4
Boring 7 3 4
Conservative 7 2 5
Disgusting 7 5 2
Joke 7 7 0
Lacking/Lackluster 7 4 2
Losers 7 6 1
Qualified/Highly qualified 7 1 3
Competent 6 1 5
Diverse 6 1 4
Impressed/Impressive 6 2 4
Sad 6 4 1
Inadequate 5 4 0
Lousy 5 4 1
Stupid 5 4 0
Untrustworthy 5 3 1
Bad 4 4 0
Blah/Bland 4 2 2
Capable 4 2 2
Crazy 4 3 1
Dishonest 4 2 0
Dislike/Don't like/Unlikeable 4 3 1
Disorganized/Unorganized 4 1 2
Greedy 4 4 0
Honesty 4 0 4
Republican 4 2 2
Terrible 4 3 0
Undecided 4 0 3
Unelectable 4 2 2
Waiting/Wait and see 4 0 4
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