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Survey of Georgia Registered Voters Conducted by 20/20 Insight, LLC May 8-10, 2013 1,662 Registered Voters (2.

4% Margin of Error) = RV

Q1

Generic State Ballot RV 38 42 16 4 -4

Democratic Candidates Republican Candidates Depends on the Candidates Not Sure Democratic - Republican margin

Q2

Now I am going to read you the names of a few people and things. For each one, I will ask you to rate them on a scale of 1 to 5, just like how restaurants are reviewed in the newspaper, with 1 being the worst rating and 5 being the best. If you have heard of the person or thing, but have no opinion, that's fine, and if you haven't heard of them that is fine too.

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Paul Broun Phil Gingrey Karen Handel Jack Kingston Michelle Nunn

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Survey of Georgia Registered Voters Conducted by 20/20 Insight, LLC May 8-10, 2013 1,662 Registered Voters (2.4% Margin of Error) = RV

Q3 Republican Primary Voters Only For comparison, the results of a parallel survey with job titles but not biography: 13 19 16 18 34 Q3 Paul Broun, a Congressman from Athens Phil Gingrey, a Congressman from Marietta Karen Handel, the former Secretary of State Jack Kingston, a Congressman from Savannah not certain at this time/none of these candidates

The results of this survey with the accompanying biographies of each candidate read:

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Paul Broun is a Congressman from Athens. He is one of the most conservative members of Congress and has served since 2007. Broun has been endorsed by former Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul. He has focused on cutting federal spending and taxes, and has advocated for the repeal of Obamacare. Before his election to Congress, he was a family physician. Phil Gingrey is a Congressman from Marietta. He is a conservative who has served in Congress since 2002, and before that was a member of the Georgia state Senate and a physician who delivered babies. He has focused on cutting federal spending and taxes, and as chairman of the Congressional Doctors Caucus has worked to repeal and replace Obamacare. Jack Kingston is a Congressman from Savannah who has served since 1992. He is a conservative who has served on the House Appropriations Committee for several years where he has focused on budget issues and has been recognized for his efforts to cut federal spending and taxes. He has also voted to repeal Obamacare. Karen Handel is the former Georgia Secretary of State. She is a conservative who also served as the chairwoman of the Fulton County Commission, where she worked to reduce county spending and cut taxes. In recent years, she worked for the Susan B. Komen foundation that funds efforts to fight breast cancer. While there, she worked to end the foundation's funding of Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services.

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Not Certain at this time or none of these candidates

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All voters were then given a general election matchup that includes one of the bios from above (with the words 'the Republican' inserted after the name). They were also read this biographical statement about Michelle Nunn (descriptions were rotated randomly): Q4 Michelle Nunn, the Democrat, lives in Atlanta and is the founder and CEO of an international non-profit that promotes community service and which mobilized over four million volunteers in twenty countries around the world. She is also the daughter of former United States Senator Sam Nunn.

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A B C D vs Paul Broun vs Phil Gingrey vs Karen Handel vs Jack Kingston Average Vote 42 46 47 42 44 45 46 39 48 44 13 8 14 11 12

And now we have a few final questions to make sure a representative sample of all voters has been called.

Q5

Age RV 16 26 37 18 3

18-29 30-44 45-64 65 & Older Refused To Say

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Q6

Gender RV 53 44 3

Female Male Rather Not Say

Q7

And do you come from a Hispanic or Spanish speaking background, or not? RV 5 91 0 4

Yes No Not Sure Rather Not Say

And can you tell me what you consider to be your main race RV 63 25 2 1 0 1 3 0 5

White Black/African American American Indian/Alaska Native Asian Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Some Other Race More Than One Race Not Sure Rather Not Say

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Q8

Length of Ga Residence RV 46 51 3 36 9 4

Entire Life Lived Elsewhere Refused Elsewhere: Ga since before 2000 Elsewhere: After 2000, Before 2008 Elsewhere: After 2008

Q9

And now think about how often you vote in elections. As you know, the main elections are held every four years for President, but there are also elections for things like Governor, Congress, Mayor and School Board. And in addition to the November elections, the political parties hold primary elections that decide who their nominees will be in the summer. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 meaning hardly ever and 5 meaning you never miss an election, even a primary, how often would you say you vote?

RV 4 3 9 21 56 7

1 (Almost Never) 2 3 4 5 (Even Primaries) Not Sure

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Q10

Thinking about the political parties, can you tell me what party you consider yourself to be a member of? RV 36 35 23 2 4

Democrat Republican Independent Third Party Not Sure

[D/R combined with followup about what party they usually choose in two way race] 42 45 Total Democratic Base Vote Total Republican Base Vote

Q11

Vote in 2012 Presidential Election was for RV 43 48 2 5 2

Barack Obama, the Democrat Mitt Romney, the Republican Some Other Candidate Refused Did Not Vote

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Q12

DMA: CODED NOT ASKED RV 5 63 5 3 8 6 2 7

Albany Atlanta Augusta Columbus Macon Savannah Tallahassee/Thomasville Fringe/Out of State

Q13

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: CODED NOT ASKED RV 6 8 8 6 6 7 6 7 8 9 7 9 7 6 63 37

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Republican Held Seat Democratic Held Seat

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Survey of Georgia Registered Voters Conducted by 20/20 Insight, LLC May 8-10, 2013 1,662 Registered Voters (2.4% Margin of Error) = RV

Statement of Methodology: 20/20 Insight, LLC surveyed 1,662 Georgia Registered Voters from May 8-10, 2013. These interviews were then weighted to representative Georgia Registered voters. The surveys margin of error is +/-2.4% at a confidence level of 95%. 20/20 Insight, LLC conducts surveys using automated interactive voice response (IVR) technology. This is what is often referred to in the media as a robo poll.

No live human operators spoke to respondents, who used their touch-tone phones to answer questions. Every respondent heard the exact same prompt for each question, except where noted a computer randomized the order in which they heard questions, ballot choices or names. To keep the average call length to a reasonable amount of time, some questions were read only to a sub-sample or split-sample of respondents. Respondents had up to 5 seconds to answer each question after the full prompt was read, and could answer early at any time once they heard their choice. On average for this survey, respondents spent more than 7 minutes on the phone, and slightly more than 30% of those called who initially agreed to take the survey did not complete it due to dropoff or some other factor. The frequencies reported in this survey include the weighted results from ONLY the 1,662 modeled respondents who answered every question including the demographic profile. Additional demographic weighting was applied to the survey using statistical information available from the Georgia Secretary of State. More than 79% of poll respondents, representing more than 57% of the final weighted survey result had a final weight applied of less than 1.5. A weighting of 1 would mean no weighting was applied. This weighting, and other factors such as refusal to be interviewed may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify. 20/20 Insight, LLC employed multiple callbacks over successive days and at different hours during the day and also attempted to convert those who initially decline to participate in order to reduce any respondent bias introduced by only interviewing the subset of the general population that answers a call on any random night. A "raking" weighting methodology was used - first the survey was raked to match Georgia's racial and ethnic population, then the survey was adjusted for age and finally the survey was adjusted for gender.

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