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National Polling results:
Sources: Poll Tracker | WSJ.com | Gallup.com | Race 4 2012 | RealClearPolitics

Results vary considerably between different polls. For example in July polls Romney got from 16 to 30% and Bachmann got from 11 to 16%. See an example for Iowa below.

Initial Primary Results

Place
Iowa	25%	25%	13%	21%	10%	0.6%	5%	0.3%
New Hampshire	39%	9%	9%	23%	0.7%	17%	1.5%
South Carolina	28%	17%	40%	13%	0.4%
See Primaries below for others

Super Tuesday is the Tue., usually Feb. or Mar., when the greatest number of delegates (usually 20-40%) are up for grabs.

Primary Schedule and Results               (Click on candidate name for a google search)

Date	Deli- gates	State	Deli- gates	Type	Deli- gate Allo- cation
Home State						MA	PA	GA	TX
Tue Jan 3	28	Iowa	28	(nonbinding) caucus	N/A Caucus' result in both bound and unbound delegates based on state rules	25%	25%	13%	21%
Tue Jan 10	12	New Hampshire	12†	(modified) primary	proprtnl Delegates are allocated proportionally to the popular vote.	39%	9%	9%	23%
Sat Jan 21	25	South Carolina	25†	(open) primary	proprtnl	28%	17%	40%	13%
Tue Jan 31	50	Florida	50†	(closed) primary	WTA Winner-Take-All.	46%	13%	32%	7%
Sat Feb 4	28	Nevada	28	(binding) caucus	proprtnl	50%	10%	21%	19%
Tue Feb 7	128	Colorado	36	(nonbinding) caucus	N/A	35%	40%	13%	12%
		Minnesota precincts	40	(nonbinding) caucus	N/A 1	17%	45%	11%	27%
		Missouri ‡	52	(nonbinding) primary	Conv The delegation will be elected on the floor of the state convention based on stated presidential preference.	25%	55%		12%
Feb 4-11	24	Maine	24	(nonbinding) caucus	N/A	39%	18%	6%	36%
Tue Feb 28	59	Arizona	29†	(closed) primary	WTA	47%	27%	16%	8%
		Michigan	30†	(open) primary	AP/CW At-large delegates are proportional, Congressional District delegates are Winner-Take-All. See below.	41%	38%	7%	12%
Feb 11-29	29	Wyoming	29	(binding) caucus	N/A	44%	28%	1%	12%
Sat Mar 3	43	Washington	43	(nonbinding) caucus	Conv	38%	24%	10%	25%
Tue Mar 6	437	Alaska	27	(binding) caucus	Proptl	32%	29%	14%	24%
(Super		Georgia	76	(modified)	Proptl	26%	20%	47%	7%
Tuesday)		Idaho	32	(binding) caucus	Proptl	62%	18%	2%	18%
		Massachusetts	41	(modified)	Proptl	72%	12%	5%	10%
		North Dakota	28	(binding) caucus	N/A	24%	40%	8%	28%
		Ohio	66	(modified) primary	AP*/CW At-large delegates are proportional, Congressional District delegates are Winner-Take-All. See below. * If any candidate receives more than 50% of the votes it becomes WTA.	38%	37%	15%	9%
		Oklahoma	43	(closed) primary	proprtnl* If any candidate receives more than 50% of the votes it becomes WTA.	28%	34%	28%	10%
		Tennessee	58	(open) primary	proprtnl# If any candidate receives more than 66% of the votes it becomes a WTA contest.	28%	37%	24%	9%
		Vermont	17	(open) primary	AP*/CW	40%	24%	8%	26%
		Virginia	49	(open) primary	AP*/CW	60%	-	-	41%
Sat Mar 10	49	Kansas	40	(binding) caucus	AP/CW	21%	51%	14%	13%
		U.S. Virgin Islands	9	(binding) caucus	N/A	26%	6%	5%	29%
Date	Deli- gates	State	Deli- gates	Type	Deli- gate Allo- cation
Tue Mar 13	119	Alabama	50	(open) primary	proprtnl*	29%	35%	29%	5%
		Hawaii	20	(binding) caucus	proprtnl	45%	25%	11%	19%
		Mississippi	40	(open) primary	proprtnl	31%	33%	31%	4%
		American Samoa	9	Caucus	N/A
Sat Mar 17	(52)	Missouri ‡	(52)	(binding) caucus	Conv
Sun Mar 18	23	Puerto Rico	23	(open) primary	WTA	83%	8%	2%	1%
Tue Mar 20	69	Illinois	69	(open) primary	N/A	47%	35%	7%	9%
Sat Mar 24	46	Louisiana	46	(closed) primary	AP/CU At-large delegates are proportional, Congressional District delegates are unbound.	27%	49%	16%	6%
Tue Apr 3	98	District of Columbia	19	(closed) primary	WTA	68%		10%	12%
		Maryland	37	(closed) primary	WTA	49%	29%	11%	9%
		Wisconsin	42	(open) primary	WTA	43%	38%	6%	12%
Tue Apr 24	231	Connecticut	28	(closed) primary	AP*/CW	68%	7%	10%	13%
		Delaware	17	(closed) primary	WTA	56%	6%	27%	11%
		New York	95	(closed) primary	proprtnl *	63%	9%	13%	15%
		Pennsylvania	72	(closed) primary	N/A	58%	18%	11%	13%
		Rhode Island	19	(modified) primary	proprtnl	63%	6%	6%	24%
Tue May 5-6	24	Maine	24	(closed) caucus		8%			83%
Tue May 8	132	Indiana	46	(open) primary	AU/CW	65%	13%	6%	16%
		North Carolina	55	(modified) primary	proprtnl	66%	10%	8%	11%
		West Virginia	31	(modified) primary	proprtnl	70%	12%	6%	11%
May 15	63	Nebraska ‡	35	(nonbinding) primary	Conv	71%	14%	5%	10%
		Oregon	28	(closed) primary	proprtnl	72%	10%	6%	13%
May 18-19		Minnesota state convention	40	(nonbinding) caucus		6%			75%
Tue May 22	81	Arkansas	36	(open) primary	proprtnl *
		Kentucky	45	(closed) primary	proprtnl
May 29	155	Texas	155	(open) primary	proprtnl
Tue Jun 5	299	California	172	(closed) primary	WTA
		Montana	26	(nonbinding) primary	3
		New Jersey	50	(modified) primary	WTA
		New Mexico	23	(closed) primary	proprtnl
		South Dakota	28	(closed) primary	proprtnl
Tue Jun 26	40	Utah	40	(modified) primary	WTA
14-Jul	(35)	Nebraska‡	(35)	(binding) caucus	Conv
Date to be determind		Guam	9		N/A
		Northern Marianne Islands	9		N/A
Total Deligates			2,286			681	270	157	79
August 27th-30th - 40th Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida

A candidate must accumulate 1,144 delegate votes to win.
Source:
Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries and Primaries 2012 at Wikipedia
Preliminary 2012 Presidential Primary and Caucus Schedule at White House 2012
and Republican Delegate Allocation at TheGreenPapers.com

proptnl - Delegates are allocated proportionally  
WTA - Winner-Take-All
AP/CW - At-large delegates are proportional, Congressional District delegates are Winner-Take-All
AP/CU - At-large delegates are proportional, Congressional District delegates are unbound
AU/CW - At-large delegates are unbound, Congressional District delegates are Winner-Take-All
Conv - The delegation will be elected on the floor of the state convention based on stated
              presidential preference.
Open - Anyone feom any Party or unaffiliated registartion can vote in either the primary or caucus.
Modified - Only registered Republicans and Registered Independent
                 or unafilated voters can vote in the primary or caucus.
Closed - Only registered Republicans can vote in the primary or caucus
* If any candidate receives more than 50% of the votes it becomes a WTA contest.
# If any candidate receives more than 66% of the votes it becomes a Winner-take-all contest.
1 The state, district or territory convention can vote to bind some or all of the delegates
3 This is simply a high-profile strawpoll. The real contest happens later.

† Penalties:
Several States were penalized 50% of their delegates, because they violated Republican National Committee (RNC) rules such as moving primary dates up prior to Super Tuesday.

       Delegates
 State      Normal Penalty
Arizona        58    29
Florida        99    50
Michigan       59    30
New Hampshire  23    12
South Carolina 50    25

Some of the rules are determined by the national committee for each party and some by state organizations.

How is the number of delegates per state determined?
There are 56 voting units; 50 states, which get all 4 categories of delegates (below), 5 Territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands & Northern Marianas) and the District of Columbia, which only get base at-large and party delegates.
State delegate counts are reached based on a formula of:
a. Congressional Districts - 3 per district (435 districts) = 1,305;
b. Base at-large - 10 per state, 6 per territory = 560;
c. Party official delegates - 3 per state/territory) = 168;
        (Includes 132 superdelegates)
d. Bonus delegates are given to states that elect a Republican Governor and for each Republican U.S. Senator that represents their state (1 [e.g. New York] dto 34 [Texas] per state) = 396.
2012 Totals Before penalty: 2,429 delegates
Source: White House 2012
See also Republican Delegate Allocation | TheGreenPapers.com

Terms:

• Proportional = Delegates are handed out based upon the percentage of their total votes
• Winner-Take-All = The winner takes all of the states delegates to the convention
• Winner-Take-All (by distrcit) = Delegates are handed out by the congressional districts candidates win in
• Open = Anyone from any Party or unaffiliated registartion can vote in either the primary or caucus
• Modified = Only registered Republicans and Registered Independent or unafilated voters can vote in the primary or caucus
• Closed = Only registered Republicans can vote in the primary or caucus
• Primary = Primaries are similar to general elections. Voters cast secret ballots at polling places, and can come and go as they please.
• Caucus = Caucus' require voters to get together face-to-face and discuss who to vote for. They can last 15 minutes or several hours.

Superdelegates are party leaders and elected officials ("PLEOs"). All the superdelegates are free to support any candidate for the nomination.
For Republicans, in 2012, there are potentially 3 superdelegates in each state, consisting of the state chairman and two RNC committeemen/women. However, certain states either have no superdelegates or have them but whose votes are bound by the results of the state vote. In 2012, there are a total of 132 Republican superdelegates.

In some states, delegates are bound, or "pledged" to vote for the primary winner in voting at the national convention. In other states some or all delegates are "unpledged," and free to vote for any candidate they wish at the convention.

See:
The Green Papers Election 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 Glossary

Poll/Results	Date
CNN	28-Dec	25%	22%	16%	14%	11%	9%	1%
Insider Advantage *	29-Dec	17%	17%	13%	17%	11%	12%	3%
Rasmussen	29-Dec	23%	22%	16%	13%	13%	5%	3%
NBC News/Marist	30-Dec	23%	21%	15%	13%	14%	6%	2%
Des Moines Register	31-Dec	24%	22%	15%	12%	11%	7%	2%
Insider Advantage	2-Jan	23%	22%	18%	16%	10%	6%	2%
PPP (D)	2-Jan	19%	20%	18%	14%	10%	8%	4%
Average *		23%	22%	16%	14%	12%	7%	2%	5%
Results	3-Jan
Entrance Polls	8:30 PM	24%	22%	24%	13%	9%	5%	1%
Daily Kos LiveBlog	7:15 PM 48% Reporting	23.8%	21.9%	24.4%
MSNBC	10:40 PM 98% Reporting	29,657	25,926	29,662
Final †		29,805 24.53%	21.4%	29,839 24.56%	13.3%	10.3%	5.0%	0.6%	0.3%

Daily Kos: Daily Kos Elections Iowa Republican caucuses liveblog thread #8

Speculated candidates, Palin, Huckabee, Daniels, Thune, Giuliani, Trump and Christie never entered the campaign.
As of Dec. 4, 2011, Pawlenty and Cain had withdrawn or suspended their campaigns.

Silver comments, "Gingrich is a difficult case, a former Speaker of the House (it's hard to get more establishment than that), led the 1994 Republican Revolution, but has more recently aligned himself with Tea Party groups."

As of Dec. 5, intrade says there is a 30% change that Palin, Trump, Bloomberg, Paul OR Bachmann will run for President as Independent or 3rd party candidate.

Ratings for each candidate on the issues that are important to conservatives: the economy and jobs, gun rights, low taxes, runaway government spending and small government, abortion, foreign policy, the war on terror, national defense, stopping the onslaught of illegal aliens, and border security. The highest score is a 10, the lowest a 1.

Michele Bachmann-9, Herman Cain-8, Newt Gingrich-8, Rick Santorum-8, Ron Paul-7, Rick Perry-7, Gary Johnson-6, Mitt Romney-3, Jon Huntsman-1,

We have assigned all candidates a Patriot Rating based on comprehensive analysis of many factors. Among these are their record, experience, capability, character, leadership qualifications and, of course, a demonstrated ability to abide by their prescribed oath "to support and defend" our Constitution. We evaluate their record of defending Essential Liberty, and their support for restoration of constitutional limits upon government -- including the judiciary -- the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. The rating is from 1 to 10, the higher the better. We do not rate candidates on "electability."

Newt Gingrich-6, Mitt Romney-6, Rick Perry-6, Herman Cain-5, Rick Santorum-4, Ron Paul-3, Michele Bachmann-3

Future Republican debate schedule | Washington Times Communities:

January 26  - Jacksonville, FL
February 22 - Mesa, Arizona
March 1     - Georgia
March 5     - Simi Valley, CA
March 19    - Portland, OR

Links:
Schedules at 2012 Election Central: Debates | Primary/caucus
Election 2012 Polling and News, Republican Presidential Candidates, Obama,
Positive Intensity | Gallup.com
WSJ.com: Candidates & Races - Election 2012 | Poll Tracker
Conservapedia - Presidential Election 2012 | Definition of a Conservative
Intrade Prediction Markets
2012 GOP News, Polls and Blogs for Republicans & Conservatives | Race42012.com
RealClearPolitics - Latest Polls
2012 Election Central
Tea Party Support Falls Even in Strongholds, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com, 11/29/11
Politics and Elections at PewResearch.org
CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
Romney Strategy in Question WSJ.com 12/1/11

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