Posted on 01/16/2008 1:59:12 AM PST by Romneyfor President2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain holds a 6-point lead over rival Mike Huckabee in South Carolina three days before the state's crucial presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
McCain, an Arizona senator, leads the former Arkansas governor by 29 percent to 23 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was in third place with 13 percent.
South Carolina's Republican primary on Saturday is the next battleground as both parties choose candidates for November's election to succeed President George W. Bush. Nevada also holds Republican and Democratic nominating contests on that day.
The polling was conducted Sunday through Tuesday, before Romney's breakthrough win on Tuesday night in Michigan scrambled a chaotic Republican race with no clear front-runner.
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If I were a Romney supporter in SC, I would be throwing my vote (and urging others as well) to Huckabee in order to stop McCain.
“If I were a Romney supporter in SC, I would be throwing my vote (and urging others as well) to Huckabee in order to stop McCain.”
Wouldn’t you at least wait to see what kind of a bump Romney got out of Michigan first?
>> South Carolina needs to wake up!
That would take a miracle, at this point. Fred’s in a three-way tie for a distant second place, according to the polls. To McCain of all people.
Fred isn’t moving in the national polls, either. There are theories, but I think the simplest is the right one. People are stupid. The ones who vote Republican are less stupid than the others but still stupid enough to ignore Thompson for whomever the media has spoonfed them.
If I were a Romney supporter in SC, I would be throwing my vote (and urging others as well) to Huckabee in order to stop McCain.
No. We are returning the favor to FREDHEADS.
but because he is a dreaded Northerner.
What? That is ridiculous. 1/4th of the vote will come from Northerners. That is the problem with Republicans. All they do is concentrate on the South. Meanwhile the Democrats are looking to other areas for support. No Republican can win an election with just 10 southern states.
The rolling tracking poll of 813 likely voters in South Carolina's Republican primary had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
This is a Zogby rolling poll taken Sunday through Tuesday, and it is wildly different from Rasmussen (although the candidates are in the same order, just different percentages). But since it is a rolling poll (Rasmussen was a one day Sunday poll only) we should be able to watch for any movement over the next couple of days.
Zogby. LOL!
Romney beating McCain the way he did ought to beat back McCain a bit and destabilize the field a bit.
If Fred Thompson is going to win, he needs to crack some heads. McCain and Huckabee are a bit weakened. It’s up to him.
Yep.
It’s Fred’s turn now.
“The wildly fluctuating Republican race has produced three winners in the first three SIGNIFICANT contests”
What does Wyoming have to do to win any respect from the likes of Reuters?
*rolls eyes*
I don’t know. You are posting to me and I did not originally write that.
Actually, I’m not sure where Fred is in this poll. He’s somewhere behind Romney’s 13% and in 4th place.
Zogby was very wrong in Michigan, but Thompson needs to step up in a big way if he’s making any move with his campaign.
I agree with your post. My co worker wrote that other post.
I just posted the Wyoming bit to you because I knew you were a Romney fan. ;)
No other reason whatsoever.
It is amusing how the media attempts to pretend the whole thing never happened, though.
I don’t think he’ll lose because he is from the north. I think it will be more about his liberal principals.
Why? If I were a Romney supporter in SC, I’d vote for Romney to stop McCain and Huckabee. First, SC is a must win state for Huckabee. If he can’t win in SC, then he really can’t win.
Fred all the way. If not him I’ll have to decided in November whether or not to vote for at best RINO light to keep Hillary out. None of the other candidates interest me one bit.
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