Mike Huckabee Iowa Poll Watch: Huckabee Leads Romney By 5 Points
Republican presidential hopeful, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, second from right, pauses during a campaign stop in Bedford, N.H. Saturday, Dec.1, 2007.
The latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll has been released and Mike Huckabee is now leading.
- Mike Huckabee – 29% (12%, 10-1 thru 10-3)
- Mitt Romney – 24% (29%)
- Rudy Giuliani – 13% (11%)
- Fred Thompson – 9% (18%)
- John McCain – 7% (7%)
- Ron Paul – 7% (4%)
The new Iowa Poll, conducted over four days last week, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Mike Huckabee has SURGED in Iowa while Romney and Thompson have declined. Romney who has spent over $7 million in Iowa is now losing in a state he has led for weeks/months.
Watch for the negative ads against Huckabee to accelerate. But, will such ads be effective or timely with the Christmas season starting.
Stay tuned…….
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5 Comments
Eric Dondero
Flap, the Social Cons need to understand that the more they play up Huckabee, the more they turn off libertarian-minded voters from the GOP.
Huckabee is almost the polar opposite of a “fiscally conservative/socially tolerant” libertarian Republican. He’s “fiscally centrist/socially conservative.” If Giuliani (or Fred Thompson) is not the Nominee, you’ll likely see a massive revolt amongst fiscal cons to the Libertarian Party.
Ahh, but the LP always runs “Losertarians,” you say. Right you are. But not this year. They’ve attracted a well-spoken, well-funded, glitzy exciting candidate in Wayne Root, the “King of Vegas.”
Huckabee wins the nod and overcomes Rudy, watch for a great many libertarian Republicans voting for the Libertarian Party on the Presidential level, while still backing local GOP candidates.
Flap
Eric,
I see very few scenarios where Mike Huckabee wins more than Iowa and/or perhaps South Carolina. He simply does not have the resources and the political traction in large NE and Western states, including California.
Rudy will be the nominee and will win the general election in a close race against Hillary.
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