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Rasmussen: McCain Takes Narrow Lead In South Carolina
A new Rasmussen poll in South Carolina shows John McCain enjoying a post-New Hampshire bounce, grabbing a narrow lead over Mike Huckabee. Here are the numbers, compared to the poll conducted this past Sunday:
McCain 27% (+7)
Huckabee 24% (-4)
Romney 16% (+1)
Thompson 12% (+1)
Giuliani 6% (-4)
Paul 5% (+1)
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Any polls showing a bounce for Clinton out of New Hampshire?
January 10, 2008 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
The race for fifth place is heating up! Just 1% more and Ron Paul passes 9iu11iani...
hahahaha
January 10, 2008 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that would be interesting if McCain took SC. Somehow I am still expecting Huckabee to win there, but if McCain does, I would have to say that the GOP race is already won for him.
January 10, 2008 10:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Now that would be interesting if McCain took SC. Somehow I am still expecting Huckabee to win there, but if McCain does, I would have to say that the GOP race is already won for him."
The major problem for Huck is that Michigan comes before South Carolina. At this point a McCain victory in Michigan on Tuesday seems highly probable. And while McCain lost SC in 2000 to GWB, he still had a solid performance there, receiving more than 40% of the vote if memory serves me correctly.
January 10, 2008 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would not wish to exclude this possibility, but I would note that a Huckabee victory in MI is not so terribly improbable either. I am given to understand that the Dutch Reformed (a big Republican voting block in western MI) really go for Huckabee. I am sure that the Grosse Point Yacht Club set prefer McCain, but it is anybody's guess who will win that contest. Just look at the difference between the Strategic Vision and Rossman polls up top.
January 10, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's pretty frightening. I'd be much more concerned about facing McCain in a general than Huckabee, and one would think that South Carolina would be easy Huckabee territory.
January 10, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
C'mon GOP slime machine, work your magic!
January 10, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg DeLassus:
Really? Why would the Yacht Club set prefer McCain over Cape Cod Mitt?
Maybe you should find a better term for the MI defense/business set. MI must have a business or industrial park that would characterize them better in the geographical/identity sense.
January 10, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Each of the Republican candidates is, in their own special way, a nut-case.
Bloomberg could screw things up.
January 11, 2008 1:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
On a related issue, the South Carolina Republican Party primary is set for Jan. 19, which is in violation of national party rules.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party primary, scheduled for Jan 29, is within guidelines set at the national level of the Democratic Party.
As a result, the South Carolina Republican Party not only will lose delegates to the National Republican Party convention but the separate primary will cost South Carolina millions more in taxpayer dollars.
hancock
January 11, 2008 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink