WaPo Poll: Huckabee Gaining, Clinton Maintains Large Lead

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 06:12:35 PM EST
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The Washington Post released results from a new presidential poll today.

Among all Republicans and GOP-leaning independents, Giuliani's national lead is as low as it has been since the campaign began. And among likely Republican voters, 25 percent now back Giuliani, while 19 percent back Huckabee, whose support jumped from 9 percent last month. Romney ranks third at 17 percent, with Thompson at 14 percent and McCain at 12 percent. In the new poll, Giuliani is at his lowest level to date among conservatives, down nine points over the past month to 19 percent.

For the Dems:

The Democratic race has changed little nationally, according to the new poll, with Clinton now enjoying the support of 53 percent of likely Democratic voters to 23 percent for Obama. Edwards remains in third with 10 percent. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Joseph Biden Jr. (Del.), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) registered in the low single digits.

These are national numbers and don't reflect the much closer numbers in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

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WaPo Poll: Huckabee Gaining, Clinton Maintains Large Lead | 5 comments (5 topical)

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Excavating Huckabee's AIDS Quarantine Comments (none / 0) (#1)
by glanton on Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 06:28:54 PM EST

Has paid off for him?

Clinton's lead evaporating, Obama gaining ground (none / 0) (#2)
by Aaron on Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 02:37:38 PM EST

Everywhere (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina) that the American people are getting to see the Democratic candidates firsthand, and compare them alongside one another, Hillary Clinton is slipping, and Barack Obama is gaining. And it is they who will decide who represents them in the coming presidential election.

CNN N.H. Poll: Obama, Clinton tied

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barack Obama has chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire, and the two Democratic presidential hopefuls are now locked in a statistical tie less than one month before the first-in-the-nation primary, a CNN/WMUR Poll released Wednesday shows.
Clinton has dropped 5 percentage points since the CNN/WMUR November survey, while Obama has gained 8 percentage points, according to the poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Clinton is now at 31 percent to Obama's 30 percent.

They'd better put Bill to work quick, otherwise the Clinton candidacy is going to be relegated to the pages of history much sooner than she had hoped. I bet Al Gore is chuckling quietly to himself whenever no one is looking.

Bill Clinton to aid Hillary's campaign

WASHINGTON - Bubba to the rescue!
Alarmed by his wife's slide in the polls and disarray within her backbiting campaign, a beside-himself Bill Clinton has leaped atop the barricades and is furiously plotting a cure - or coup.
"She's in big trouble and he knows it," a top Democratic operative and Hillary Clinton booster told the Daily News.

I'd join Gore in chuckling (none / 0) (#3)
by glanton on Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 02:49:42 PM EST

If Obama had some positions other than "let's be hopeful," let's "inspire" insurance companies to do right by the uninsured, etc.

Neither of the two frontrunners can dethrone Republican rule.

Perhaps Edwards would also fail, but at least he'd get a real conversation going. At least he'd go down swinging. And maybe, by prioritizing what is right over pandering, he could even win.


: I didn't know you were a Republican :-) (none / 0) (#4)
by Aaron on Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 03:21:29 PM EST

Come on glanton, don't hate, climb on the Obama wagon, we've got room for you and everyone else.
It's a new day in America, a day were the words hope and inspiration are not just a campaign slogan and a con job, at least I hope not. :-)
In a previous post I read a comment where someone said they can't wait for primary season to be over, where as I've never enjoyed a primary season so much.
Getting out and talking to people, and being engaged in democracy, I find it to be fantastically invigorating. For the first time in my life I actually feel like an active participant in the creation of my country's future.
It feels good to have enough confidence in a candidate to take a firm stand, an experience that I've certainly never had before.
People stop me on the street and in restaurants, apparently seeing my Obama pin that I'm always sporting these days, and ask me about him. It seems that many Americans are far more engaged in the election process now, then in years past, and I think that's good for our country and democracy.
I'm rather cynical by nature, especially when it comes to politics, so it's a refreshing experience to look upon the political process in a constructive positive light, I like it, and I want more, and I want my nation to be a country that I can be proud of once again. So I'm going to do whatever I can do to assure that in 2009, the American people have the best possible representative sitting in the White House. And I think that if our system is to work, work the way it was intended to, then this primary process must be a crucible where our candidates are placed under heat and pressure, in order to evaluate the content of their character and fitness for office.
For the first time, perhaps in my life, I've begun to have confidence in the process, and perhaps this newfound confidence is a direct result of my resolve and participation in that process.
I support Obama because I believe his views represent the best future, not only for the Democratic Party, but for the United States of America.
Obama 08, strength, leadership, unity

Hum (none / 0) (#5)
by Jgarza on Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 04:57:18 PM EST

Somehow if Clinton was so confident that her 30 point national lead meant something I don't think she would have tried to attacked Barack for admitting he used cocaine 30 years ago.

Clinton Sleaze

Shaheen said Obama's candor on the subject would "open the door" to further questions. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" Shaheen said. "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."

Yeah thats a smart statement: Clinton says Obama can't win because he is too honest.