voter opinions are coming into focus, and Esquire and Yahoo! News have joined forces to examine how voters view the presidential candidates and how President Obama and Mitt Romney conduct themselves: Who do you trust to take us to war? Who better understands American families? Who's a bigger liar? What do voters think of Mormonism? Of the potential repeal of Obamacare? Who would you choose to take care of your dog?

Esquire and Yahoo! News asked prominent national pollster Gary Langer of Langer Research Associates to survey more than a thousand Americans about those topics, and many more, in the days following the political conventions. We asked questions most pollsters don't — on religion, race, personal values, class, and personality — and over the following weeks, we will report our findings. (The complete survey will be available in early October in the November issue of Esquire as well as on Yahoo! News and Esquire.com's The Politics Blog.)

This week, we begin with the basics:

The numbers change, though, when we ask all Americans to predict who they think is going to win:

Or, in a scenario straight from Ann Coulter's imagination:

That's all for now. To see the full results of these survey questions, click here, and we invite you to check back next week for the latest findings.

METHODOLOGY

This Esquire/Yahoo! Poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone Sept. 7-10, 2012, among a random national sample of 1,002 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points for the full sample, 4.5 points for registered voters and 5 points for likely voters. The survey was produced for Esquire/Yahoo! News by Langer Research Associates, with sampling, data collection and tabulation by Interviewing Service of America of Van Nuys, Calif.

(Chart Design by Katelyn MacLachlan for The Politics Blog)

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