Opinion Polling for the United States Gubernatorial Elections, 2008

This article provides a collection of scientific, state-wide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the United States of America (U.S.) Gubernatorial elections, 2008.

American Samoa
American Samoa
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

Incumbent: Togiola Tulafono
Primary Date: November 4, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Togiola Tulafono Togiola Tulafono Togiola Talalelei A. Tulafono is the Governor of American Samoa. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He had previously served as Lieutenant Governor, taking this position on January 3, 1997....	Republican: TBD	Lead Margain

Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

Incumbent: Ruth Ann Minner
Ruth Ann Minner
Ruth Ann Minner is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. She is a member of the Democratic Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Delaware and two terms as the first female Governor of Delaware.-Early life...

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Primary Date: September 9, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Jack A. Markell Jack A. Markell Jack A. Markell is an American businessman and politician who has been Governor of Delaware since 2009. Markell, a member of the Democratic Party from Centreville, in New Castle County, Delaware, served as State Treasurer of Delaware from 1999 to 2009 and was elected as the 73rd Governor of...	Republican: William Swain Lee William Swain Lee William Swain Lee is an American lawyer and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served as a judge of the Delaware Superior Court. He was the 2004 and 2008 Republican candidate for Governor of Delaware.-Early life and family:Lee was...	IPOD: Mike Protack	Lead Margain
Survey USA	October 27–28, 2008	62%	27%	5%	35
Rasmussen Reports	October 10, 2008	62%	34%	not an option	28
Survey USA	September 22–23, 2008	64%	29%	5%	35
Fairleigh Dickinson	September 17–21, 2008	61%	27%	not an option	44

Montana
Montana
Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

Incumbent: Brian Schweitzer
Primary Date: June 3, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Brian Schweitzer Brian Schweitzer Brian David Schweitzer is an American politician from the U.S. state of Montana. Schweitzer is its 23rd and current governor, serving since January 2005. Schweitzer currently has one of the highest approval ratings among governors in the nation, with polls regularly showing a rating of above 60...	Republican: Roy Brown Roy Brown (Montana politician) Roy Brown is a former Montana State Senator from Billings, Montana Senate District 25. He served four terms in the Montana House of Representatives and was elected to the State Senate in 2007. He was the Republican nominee for the Governor seat in Montana with Steve Daines in 2008...	Libertarian: Stan Jones	Lead Margain
Public Policy Polling	November 2, 2008	62%	36%	not an option	26
Rasmussen Reports	October 1, 2008	56%	41%	not an option	15
Rasmussen Reports	July 29, 2008	59%	35%	3%	24
Rasmussen Reports	June 30, 2008	61%	32%	3%	29
Mason Dixon/Lee Newspapers	May 19–21, 2008	55%	30%	2%	25
Mason Dixon/Lee Newspapers	December 17–19, 2007	55%	30%	not an option	15

New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

Incumbent: John Lynch
Primary Date: September 9, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: John Lynch	Republican: Joe Kenney Joe Kenney -External links:...	Lead Margain
Survey USA	October 29–30, 2008	65%	28%	37
Survey USA	October 4–5, 2008	67%	24%	33
Strategic Vision	September 22–24, 2008	68%	23%	45
Concord Monitor/Research 2000	September 22–24, 2008	58%	32%	16
Suffolk University	September 21–24, 2008	61%	16%	45
University of New Hampshire	September 14–21, 2008	66%	17%	49
American Research Group	September 13–15, 2008	62%	31%	31
American Research Group	July 19–21, 2008	60%	27%	33
University of New Hampshire	April 25–30, 2008	68%	17%	51

North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

Incumbent: Mike Easley
Mike Easley
Michael Francis "Mike" Easley is an American politician who served as the 72nd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina, from 2001 to 2009. He is member of the North Carolina Democratic Party and became the first North Carolina governor to admit to a felony in a deal that halted a lengthy...

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Primary Date: May 6, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Beverly Perdue	Republican: Pat McCrory	Libertarian: Michael Munger Michael Munger Michael Curtis Munger is an economist, chair of the political science department at Duke University, and was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 2008....	Lead Margain
Rasmussen Reports	October 23, 2008	47%	51%	not an option	4
Survey USA	October 18–20, 2008	43%	46%	7%	3
Survey USA	October 5–6, 2008	45%	46%	4%	1
Rasmussen Reports	September 30, 2008	46%	50%	not an option	4
Civitas Institute/ Tel Opinion Research	September 17–20, 2008	41%	43%	3%	2
Public Policy Polling	September 17–19, 2008	44%	43%	not an option	1
Elon University	September 15–16, 2008	35%	37%	not an option	2
Research 2000/Daily Kos	September 8–10, 2008	42%	47%	not an option	5
Civitas Institute/ Tel Opinion Research	September 6–10, 2008	40%	39%	not an option	1
Survey USA	September 6–8, 2008	41%	49%	5%	8
Garin Hart Yang	September 5–7, 2008	46%	40%	not an option	6
Democracy Corps/ Greenberg Quinlan Rosner	August 20–26, 2008	46%	46%	not an option	0
Public Policy Polling	August 20–23, 2008	43%	38%	4%	5
Survey USA	August 9–11, 2008	47%	44%	5%	2
Public Policy Polling	July 23–27, 2008	46%	37%	6%	9
Civitas Institute/ Tel Opinion Research	July 14–16, 2008	43%	40%	2%	3
Survey USA	July 12–14, 2008	47%	46%	3%	1
Public Policy Polling	June 26–29, 2008	42%	41%	5%	1
Civitas Institute/ Tel Opinion Research	June 11–13, 2008	43%	41%	2%	2
Rasmussen Reports	June 10, 2008	47%	46%	not an option	1
Public Policy Polling	May 28–29, 2008	43%	39%	4%	4
Survey USA	May 17–19, 2008	52%	45%	not an option	7
Civitas Institute/ Tel Opinion Research	May 14–17, 2008	43%	42%	not an option	1
Public Policy Polling	May 8–9, 2008	45%	45%	not an option	0
Rasmussen Reports	May 8, 2008	39%	45%	4%	6
Rasmussen Reports	March 20, 2008	45%	42%	not an option	3
Rasmussen Reports	February 26, 2008	44%	38%	not an option	6
Public Policy Polling	February 26, 2008	41%	41%	not an option	0
Rasmussen Reports	January 28, 2008	42%	38%	not an option	4
Public Policy Polling	January 21, 2008	41%	39%	not an option	2
Rasmussen Reports	December 19, 2007	39%	42%	not an option	3
Public Policy Polling	December 12, 2007	41%	39%	not an option	2
Institute/ Tel Opinion Research	November 12, 2007	36%	39%	not an option	3

Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

Incumbent: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
Primary Date: March 9, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Popular Democratic: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá Aníbal Acevedo Vilá Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer. He served as the eighth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth of the United States, from 2005 to 2009. He is a Harvard University alumnus and a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law,...	New Progressive: Luis Fortuno Luis Fortuño Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset is the governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America. Fortuño is also the president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico , a member of the Republican National Committee, and will be president of the Council of State...	Lead Margain
El Vocero	October 30, 2008	31%	49%	18
Primera Hora	October 24–27, 2008	38%	41%	3

Washington

Incumbent: Christine Gregoire
Primary Date: August 19, 2008

Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Christine Gregoire Christine Gregoire Christine O'Grady "Chris" Gregoire is the 22nd and current Governor of the state of Washington, and a member of the Democratic Party. Gregoire defeated Republican candidate Dino Rossi in 2004, and again in 2008. She is the second female governor of Washington...	Republican: Dino Rossi Dino Rossi Dino Rossi is an American commercial real estate executive, former Washington State Senator, two-time Republican candidate for Governor of Washington, and former Republican candidate for United States Senate. His first run for the Governor's mansion in the 2004 election became the closest...	Lead Margain
Survey USA	November 2, 2008	52%	46%	6
Survey USA	October 27, 2008	50%	48%	2
Rasmussen Reports	October 22, 2008	50%	48%	2
Survey USA	October 13, 2008	48%	47%	1
Rasmussen Reports	October 2, 2008	48%	48%	0
Survey USA	September 21–22, 2008	50%	48%	2
Strategic Vision	September 14–16, 2008	46%	48%	2
Rasmussen Reports	September 10, 2008	46%	52%	6
Elway Poll	September 6–8, 2008	48%	44%	4
Survey USA	September 5–7, 2008	47%	48%	1
Survey USA	August 11–12, 2008	50%	48%	2
Rasmussen Reports	August 6, 2008	50%	46%	4
Elway Poll	July 27–31, 2008	52%	36%	16
Strategic Vision	July 25–27, 2008	47%	45%	2
Survey USA	July 13–15, 2008	49%	46%	3
Moore Information	July 9–10, 2008	45%	45%	0
Rasmussen Reports	July 9, 2008	52%	44%	6
Elway Poll	June 18–22, 2008	47%	39%	8
Rasmussen Reports	June 9, 2008	50%	43%	7
SurveyUSA	June 7–9, 2008	50%	47%	3
Rasmussen Reports	May 12, 2008	52%	41%	11
SurveyUSA	April 7, 2008	48%	47%	1
Rasmussen Reports	April 2, 2008	47%	46%	1
Rasmussen Reports	February 28, 2008	46%	47%	1
University of Washington	February 7–18, 2008	53.7%	42.1%	11.6
Strategic Vision	October 5–7, 2007	47%	45%	2
Strategic Vision	March 24–26, 2006	38%	51%	12

West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

Incumbent: Joe Manchin III
Primary Date: May 13, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Joe Manchin III	Republican: Russ Weeks Russ Weeks Russ Weeks is a former Republican State Senator from West Virginia the 9th Senatorial District. Weeks was elected in 2002, defeating Senate Judiciary Chairman Bill Wooton. Weeks had not served in public office prior to being elected. He was defeated in 2006...	Lead Margain
Rasmussen Reports	October 20, 2008	71%	21%	50

Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

Incumbent: Mitch Daniels
Primary Date: May 6, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Jill Long Thompson	Republican: Mitch Daniels Mitch Daniels Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. is the 49th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his first four-year term as governor on January 10, 2005, and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin on November 4, 2008. Previously, he was the Director of the...	Lead Margain
Public Policy Polling	November 2, 2008	37%	60%	23
WSBT/South Bend Tribune	September 29–30, 2008	46%	47%	1
Survey USA	September 28–29, 2008	37%	53%	15
Rasmussen Reports	September 17–18, 2008	40%	56%	16
Indianapolis Star/ Selzer & Co.	September 14–16, 2008	42%	46%	4
Survey USA	August 16–18, 2008	38%	52%	12
TargetPoint Consulting	July 13–22, 2008	35%	53%	18
Real Clear Politics. Big Daniels Lead	June 22–29, 2008	36%	50%	14
Survey USA	June 21–23, 2008	45%	50%	5
Indiana Legislative Insight	May 27-June 1, 2008	35%	51%	16
Beneson Strategy Group	May 20–22, 2008	39%	46%	7
Downs Center/Survey USA	April 28–30, 2008	49%	46%	3
WISH-TV	April 23–24, 2008	45%	45%	0
Howey Gauge	April 23–24, 2008	36%	55%	19
Research 2000/ South Bend Tribune	April 21–24, 2008	45%	45%	0
Indianapolis Star/ Selzer & Company	April 20–23, 2008	44%	43%	1
SurveyUSA	April 14–16, 2008	47%	48%	1
Indianapolis Star/WTHR	November 13–16, 2007	44%	43%	1

Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

Incumbent: Matt Blunt
Matt Blunt
Matthew Roy Blunt served as the 54th Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was elected to serve in the Missouri General Assembly in 1998 and as Missouri's Secretary of State in 2000.A Republican, Blunt was elected...

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Primary Date: August 5, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Jay Nixon	Republican: Kenny Hulshof	Lead Margain
Public Policy Polling	November 2, 2008	57.9%	38.4%	19.5
Survey USA	November 2, 2008	54%	39%	15
Survey USA	October 26, 2008	55%	38%	17
Rasmussen Reports	October 14, 2008	57%	38%	19
Survey USA	September 23–24, 2008	54%	37%	17
St. Louis Post Dispatch/ Research 2000	September 22–24, 2008	49%	42%	7
St. Louis Post Dispatch/ Research 2000	September 15–18, 2008	50%	43%	7
Rasmussen Reports	September 11, 2008	54%	39%	15
Rasmussen Reports	August 7, 2008	53%	42%	11
Survey USA	July 29–31, 2008	48%	42%	6
Research 2000/ St. Louis Post-Dispatch	July 7–10, 2008	52%	35%	17
Rasmussen Reports	July 7, 2008	49%	38%	11
Public Policy Polling	July 2–5, 2008	47%	37%	10
Rasmussen Reports	March 24, 2008	48%	37%	11

North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

Incumbent: John Hoeven
Primary Date: June 10, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Tim Mathern Tim Mathern Tim Mathern is a state senator in North Dakota. He also unsuccessfully ran for Governor of North Dakota in 2008.Mathern grew up on a dairy and grain farm near Edgeley, ND with 12 brothers and sisters. He attended public school in Edgeley before attending Cardinal Muench Seminary in Fargo...	Republican: John Hoeven John Hoeven John Henry Hoeven III is the junior United States Senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Republican Party. He is expected to become the state's senior senator when Kent Conrad retires from the Senate in January 2013.Hoeven served as the 31st Governor of North Dakota,...	Lead Margain
Rasmussen Reports	September 8, 2008	28%	68%	40
Rasmussen Reports	July 8, 2008	27%	67%	40

Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

Incumbent: Jon Huntsman
Primary Date: June 24, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Bob Springmeyer	Republican: Jon Huntsman Jon Huntsman, Jr. Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr. is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah. He also served in the administrations of four United States presidents and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.Huntsman worked as a White House staff assistant for...	Lead Margain
Dan Jones & Associates/ Deseret News	September 8–11, 2008	13%	77%	54
Salt Lake Tribune/ Mason-Dixon	August 13–15, 2008	9%	73%	62
Dan Jones & Associates	June 16–19, 2008	11%	78%	67
Rasmussen Reports	June 19, 2008	19%	66%	47
Dan Jones & Associates	May 13–19, 2008	13%	77%	64

Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

Incumbent: Jim Douglas
Primary Date: September 9, 2008

Poll Source	Dates administered	Democrat: Gaye Symington Gaye Symington Gaye R. Symington is the former Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly...	Republican: Jim Douglas Jim Douglas James H. Douglas is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. A Republican, he was elected the 80th Governor of Vermont in 2002 and was reelected three times with a majority of the vote...	Independent: Anthony Pollina Anthony Pollina Anthony Pollina is a Progressive American politician, who has run several times for elected office in the state of Vermont.-1984 US Congressional Election:...	Lead Margain
Research 2000	September 11–14, 2008	33%	48%	7%	41

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American SamoaAmerican SamoaAmerican Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

DelawareDelawareDelaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

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West VirginiaWest VirginiaWest Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

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American Samoa
American Samoa
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...