Rasmussen: Huckabee now destroying Romney in Iowa 39-23 (all other single digits)

[rinsd]

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

It was just two weeks ago that Rasmussen Reports released the first Iowa Caucus poll showing Mike Huckabee with an advantage over Mitt Romney. A lot has changed over the past two weeks and Huckabee’s lead has now grown to double digits.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Iowa caucus finds Huckabee with 39% of the vote, Romney with 23% support, and everyone else in single digits. Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson get just 8% of the vote in Iowa at this time. Arizona Senator John McCain is at 6% just one point ahead of Congressman Ron Paul (see crosstabs).

Huckabee’s support in Iowa is up eleven points from the poll conducted in late November. Over the past month, Huckabee has more than doubled his support from 16% on November 12 to 39% today. Romney has lost two points from the previous survey and is down six points over the past month.

Huckabee also leads in South Carolina, is tied for the lead in Michigan, and is near the top with Rudy Giuliani in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Results for the latest polling in New Hampshire will be released later this week.

More at the link - http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/iowa/republican_iowa_caucus

[fascisthunter]

1. Rasmussen...bleh (nt)

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Good

Huckabee is nuts, but Romney is incredibly smart and totally amoral - the damage he could cause would be 20x worse than what Bush has done.

[tritsofme]

3. Polling in Iowa is problematic

Isolating likely caucus participants is hard, even a month out.

It gets a little more accurate towards the end, but I could see Christmas shopping and the whole holiday rush could complicate polling even more.

[Bitwit1234]

4. I guess republicans just love those rapist and murderers.

but then the MSM may not have even reported on it.

[BlueStater]

5. Near-dead Fred needs to just hang it up already.

He's barely alive in Iowa or New Hampshire.