Yesterday I tweeted the question whether pollsters ever use ranked choice voting to see if someone like Mitt Romney is likely to do well if he is a strong second choice candidate of many voters. In response, Rob Richie points me to this Suffolk poll.  Among the findings: “In the event that their first choice dropped out of the Republican primary, those polled named Romney (21 percent) over Perry (20 percent) as their “second choice.” Paul received 9 percent as a second choice.”

The poll is dated (from 9/21), but it does seem a useful question for pollsters to ask.