According to a survey done by Performance Marketing Insider it seems that marketers are overwhelmingly going to vote for Mitt Romney for President. The survey, in which over 300 marketers responded, shows a significant lead for Romney at 53% vs. 29.3% for Barack Obama. This survey was targeted mainly to professionals within the industry via linkedin.
Interestingly enough 12.1% of the marketers replied that they would vote for someone else instead of the two main candidates. While they did not specify whot hey were going to vote for, it is possible they would consider Gary Johnson, a Libertarian Party candidate, who is the former governor of New Mexico. However, considering the humorous side of the industry, its possible they will vote for Rosanne Barr. Both independent candidates favor legalizing marijuana… and I think Rosanne actual favors making marijuana usage compulsory.
We tried to get answers from those who replied on why they were voting one way or another, but most of them were not willing to go public on their voting reasons. However, Kevin De Vincenzi, the CEO of XY7.com was willing to go on the record on why he was going to vote for Mitt Romney. According to De Vincenzi, he believed that “we need a business man to run the country and not some socialist.” We are pretty sure he meant it.
Paul Angles, an Internet marketing Consultant on the other hand is going to vote for Obama. He made it clear that he is a staunch supporter of Obama because he has seen Democrat Presidents fix the economy, and according to him with Obama in office , “the economy has been pulled back from the abyss, the private sector has taken off, Wall Street has boomed, and the deficit is down.” He thinks that if you vote for Romney, you are making a huge mistake because “Romney wants to double-down on Bush’s policies. Obama wants to double-down on Clinton’s. I’ll take what clearly works over what clearly fails.”
Should be noted that 1% of the poll said they weren’t going to vote and 4% wasn’t sure who they were going to vote.
