[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This is a poll of adults, not voters, much less voters likely to vote in the primaries. If, like Rasmussen, you screen for these things, it puts Thompson closer to Giulani.

[codercpc]

My point was that regardless of the numbers, every single poll shows that Fred has gone down in the past month (to his pre announcement numbers or worse), and that others, in this case Huckabee and Romney are the beneficiaries. Even your Rasmussen poll shows the exact same trend. Oct 1st Fred was at 25% today he is at 17%.
That is an 8% drop, and Huckabee picked up 6% with Mitt at 2%.

Rudy and Fred are close, but it was the trend I was looking at not necessarily the numbers.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/daily_presidential_tracking_polling_history

And if you take a average of all the polls, Rudy leads by 13.2%

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-192.html#polls