Nope. They came from Rooty. Fred’s downturn seems to be split between McCain and Romney.
The gain for huck is virtually identical to the loss for rooty. It is right down to the exact day. I ran the numbers through Excel and the graph from the last week of November to Friday 7 Dec is VERY obvious.
I wonder what agenda the author of this has?
What I think we are seeing is the fight for dominance in the Republican party.
Rudy supporters have, and always will be WOT, and Security Conservatives. They are the security moms looking for a Leader. They want someone who will not back down from the terrorists, and will NEVER be appeasers to the "politically correct". They may be social conservatives, but have decided that in this election, those issues must take a back seat to our Nations dominance in the WOT. They may want abortion and gay marriage illegal, but when that day comes, they want to Thank God, and not praise alah.
Hucks supporters, are the opposite, they see the Nation as a failure if they fail to protect the most innocent among us, the unborn. They are willing to overlook his weakness in security issues, as long as he is a strong social conservative.
It is the fight we have been seeing on this very board since the beginning, with one exception, for some reason the social conservatives seem to have chosen Huckabee as their savior, as opposed to the conventional wisdom here, that it would be Fred.
Fred is now saying that Iowa is make or break for his campaign, this after months of hearing that Iowa and New Hampshire didn't matter. I hardly think that Fred is going after Rudy voters, he is going after Huck. Who will win remains to be seen, but I don't think that the Huck voters (regardless of your charts) originally came from Rudy, they came straight from Mitt, and Fred. They were looking for the best Social Conservative, not the best WOT, Security Conservative.