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Poll: Huckabee Narrowly Leads In Georgia, Has Sucked Away Thompson's Support
The new poll in Georgia by the GOP firm Strategic Vision shows Mike Huckabee shooting to the top. Huckabee has 23% support, Fred Thompson 20%, Rudy Giuliani 17%, John McCain 11%, and Mitt Romney 10%. Huckabee was at only 7% in the last Strategic Vision poll of Georgia, back in October. His newfound support seems to have come almost entirely from his fellow Southerner Fred Thompson, who was at 39% back then.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton has 34%, Barack Obama 27%, and John Edwards 12%. In October, Hillary had 40%, Obama an identical 27%, and Edwards 11%.
In addition, GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss easily beats all his Democratic challengers, winning by greater than 2-1 ratios.
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By the way, there is a new UNH poll out. Since their mid-Nov poll, it shows Clinton down 5 to 31, Obama up 8 to 30, Edwards up 3 to 16, Richardson down 5 to 7.
In addition to the obvious point that Clinton's lead went from 14 to 1 in the last month, I think Edwards gaining a bit is good news for him insofar as he might be able to translate a strong finish in Iowa into momentum in NH.
December 12, 2007 7:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
By the way, although hopefully the UNH poll will get its own thread, it is not entirely off topic here.
It has become increasingly obvious that Clinton has not established a "firewall" in any of the early states. Accordingly, I have seen an increasing number of people suggest that Clinton could still win the nomination after losing all of the early states by winning the big states on Super Tuesday.
Georgia, however, is one of the bigger states on Super Tuesday, and this poll suggests it would not act as much of a firewall either (nor, I suspect, would other Southern states, New England states, or Midwestern states, if someone else wins SC, NH, and Iowa). And a New York victory alone would probably not be enough in public perception or delegates to win the nomination for Clinton.
So, if a Clinton "firewall" exists at all, it probably has to be California. Accordingly, if Clinton does in fact lose in Iowa and NH (and of course it is still entirely possible she will win those states), I think it will be most interesting to see subsequent polls in California.
December 12, 2007 8:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
DTM,
Hating Clinton in California . . . Metro areas are anti-Clinton . . . The red portion of our state loves the corporate-sponsored jack-boots thingy though.
In Los Angeles, there are no Clinton bumperstickers until you hit the Riverside County line . . . Then its all pro and anti Her Royal Crownship all the way.
December 12, 2007 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's as if the repuplican clowns instead of coming out from the big tent
to greet America are instead all trying to crowd back into the fundamentalist volkswagon.
even after haveing seen said volkswagon crash and burn repeatedly over the last
6 years with George and Dick driving it over the cliff with Larry Craig and
Ted Haggard and James Dobson in the back seat.
Well hell - if they all want to get in
who are we to stop them.
December 12, 2007 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
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December 12, 2007 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink