Giuliani Notes: Latest New Hampshire Poll – Rudy Leads McCain?
Politico has the latest poll numbers from the Granite State:
Courtesy of WMUR/CNN. The poll was taken 2/1-2/5 and has a margin of error of +/-5.5%.
McCain: 28%
Giuliani: 27%
Romney: 13%
Gingrich: 9%
Others: 11%
Undecided: 13%
Politico does NOT have it quite right: Here is the revised poll data:
New Hampshire residents likely to vote in the Republican presidential primary a year from now think more highly of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani than any of his rivals, a poll released Tuesday shows.
Giuliani’s net favorability rating — the proportion of people viewing him favorably minus the proportion viewing him unfavorably — was 56 percent, well ahead of Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), 32 percent, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 26 percent, in the University of New Hampshire poll for WMUR-TV in Manchester.
“He’s the lesser-known candidate, but he has that rock star quality,” poll director Andy Smith said of Giuliani. “He has a charisma that was built after 9-11.”
This long before an election, political professionals pay more attention to favorability than voters’ choices if they had to vote today. McCain and Giuliani were essentially tied at about 27 percent on that question among likely GOP primary voters, followed by Romney at 13 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 9 percent.
The GOP portion of the telephone poll reached 311 likely voters from Thursday to Monday and had an error margin of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points.
The question is: Is Mitt Romney ever going to crack into the top two tier?
Stay tuned……..
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