Scott Rasmussen was the first pollster to capture Mike Huckabee’s rise in the polls in Iowa and elsewhere. Now, he’s seeing something similar for John McCain in New Hampshire:
In many places around the country, Mitt Romney is facing a challenge from Mike Huckabee. However, in New Hampshire, Huck-a-mania never took hold. But, following endorsements from the Manchester Union Leader, the Boston Globe, and Senator Joe Lieberman, John McCain is now challenging Romney in the state he won eight years ago.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the state shows Romney with 31% support, McCain at 27% and no one else close. Rudy Giuliani attracts 13% and Huckabee barely reaches double digits at 11%. This is the first time any candidate has been within single digits of Romney in several months. It remains to be seen whether this is a temporary bounce or a lasting change.
Before the latest endorsements, it was Romney 33% and McCain 18%. In late-November, Romney led by nineteen points. Earlier in November he was up by fifteen.
It seems Romney can’t hold to a lead anywhere.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
McCain is the man. While I might not agree with him on every issue, there’s no questioning his honesty and his strength of character. Compared with shameless bullshitters like Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Mitt Romney, he is a true breath of fresh air.
John McCain stuck his neck out on Iraq early this year and maintained that we needed more troops on the ground, not less, just like he had done since 2003. Everybody else in this race was either running for political cover or rubbing their hands together in glee anticipating the political windfall to come from an impending American defeat in Iraq. John McCain stood alone, and without people like him the remarkable progress that we have seen in Iraq this year would never have happened.
Also, Republicans would do well to make note of the fact that McCain consistently fares the best of any Republican candidate in head-to-head polls against both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. Any Republicans still made at McCain over his stance on the failed immigration bill ought to ask themselves if they really think they’re likely to get a better deal on immigration from a Democratic president. The answer, I think, should be obvious.
McCAIN IN 2008!!!