DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 2, 2007
Huckabee Leaps Past Romney In Iowa Poll
Obama Edges Slightly Past Clinton, Edwards Among Democrats
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Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has opened up a small lead over Mitt Romney for the first time in Iowa polls, according to the latest survey conducted by the Des Moines Register. (AP)
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The poll for The Des Moines Register had Huckabee with 29 percent, ahead of Mitt Romney who had 24 percent. Rudy Giuliani was third with 13 percent.
Huckabee's surge among Iowa Republicans continues with a poll indicating for the first time that he's opened up a small lead over Romney, who has held the top spot in Iowa polls for months. Giuliani is far behind in third place, with other candidates in single digits.
Among the Democrats, in what is still a 3-person race, Barack Obama had 28 percent, followed by Hillary Rodham Clinton with 25 percent and John Edwards with 23 percent.
The Democratic race continues to focus on three front-runners, but Obama appears to have some momentum.
The poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. It comes a little more than a month before Iowa's January 3 precinct caucuses.
DEMOCRATS:
Barack Obama, 28 percent
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 25 percent
John Edwards, 23 percent
Bill Richardson, 9 percent
Joe Biden, 6 percent
Christopher Dodd, 1 percent
Dennis Kucinich, 1 percent
Not sure/Uncommitted, 7 percent
REPUBLICANS:
Mike Huckabee, 29 percent
Mitt Romney, 24 percent
Rudy Giuliani, 13 percent
Fred Thompson, 9 percent
John McCain, 7 percent
Ron Paul, 7 percent
Tom Tancredo, 6 percent
Duncan Hunter, 1 percent
Not sure/Uncommitted, 4 percent
The telephone poll for The Des Moines Register of 500 voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the Democratic caucuses and 500 voters who definitely or probably will attend the Republican caucuses was conducted Nov. 25-28. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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See all 42 CommentsSticking together is common among any group, gang, fraternity or organization, unfortunately the main group, the American group, the United States group has lost all notion of this "sticking together" concept of late and has instead digressed into too many sub-groups, all with their own agendas working at cross purposes to the central group! United We Stand!
Alot of people don''t know anything about the Mormon religion. Dancing with the Stars was the most watched show on TV the last few weeks. People who loved that show because of people''s dancing ability were upset that Marie Osmond''s Mormon fans said they would vote for her to win even though they admitted she had no dancing talent...just because Mormons stick together. People were pissed and maybe now would not trust a Mormon candidate for President. Okay...it is just a theory don''t rip me a new ****** over it.
Huckabee has stirred up the old hatred and bigotry that this country has been trying to do away with since President Kennedy''s era--bigotry based on ***, religion or color. He is hitting below the belt and unconstitutionally since the constitution clearly states there shall be no religious test for president.
Also, by focusing on Mitt Romney''s religion, he is trying to divert attention from his less than stellar record as Governor. If he gets folks all hot and bothered about Romney being a Mormon maybe they will forget to look at how he was called out numerous times for ETHICS VIOLATIONS and how he raised taxes 50% or how he supported gay civil unions (not a very conservative position.
Maybe the secret will get out anyway with a little help from blogs like this one. BIBLE BELT BIGOT & HUCKSTER HUCKABEE IS A LIBERAL IN PASTORS CLOTHING!!!
Posted by johndevinejr
I see you would prefer the coddling of BIG NANNY GOVERNMENT spending billions of tax dollars give you free health care which you will be paying for - see it ain''t free - someone has to fund it. I bet you want to see government issued light bulbs and more abortions because according to some of you clowns babies are now polluting the planet. The list of stupidy goes on and on and on and you just sit there and welcome it. The Dimnowits will steal more public dollars than you can image. Like their Schip healthcare hype. Instead of securing money for poor children their aim is to let prosperous families drop their healthcare and come on board with their Schip proposal thus expanding universal healthcare. You just don''t see the forest for the trees now do you? P.S. Can you explain the term BC and AD?
"He also publicly supported creationism, a philosophy advocated by fervent Christians, arguing that students should be exposed to the study of the doctrine as well as evolution." (from The Washington Post)
Teaching creationism in schools is like taking the science class to the base of Mount McKinley and telling them it it 10 feet tall and made of graham crackers. It is absurd.
Anyone who is unencumbered by reality should not be President of the United States.
Posted by johndevinejr
So, really, how did the earth evolve? How did man stand upright? Where did man come from? What came first the chicken or the egg?
My God the GOP has really lost its mind.
Posted by antoniof123
The Rebpublicans are at least exploring possible alternatives to the current tax structure. Huckabee is talking about a Fair Tax and I believe Thompson is talking about a Flat Tax. The ideas are important and at least they are on topic. What are the Dems on topic for. Global warming, *** in the Military, Abortion and Impeach Bush. Real hot button issues, now, right?
Posted by kissamaarse
Somebody''s gotta meddle in America''s bedroom. If it ain''t abortion, giving condoms to young kids and birth control to 11 year olds, it''s downgrading parental controls and condoning rape by Planned Parenthood. So plese if you don''t think BIG NANNY GOVERNMENT HAS''T MEDDLED IN THE BEDROOM, THINK AGAIN.
My God the GOP has really lost its mind.
Posted by floridasandy
floridasandy, when will republicans start to pay down the Iraq war debt that they have championed over the last 4 years? It is naive to think that you can spend 7 BILLION a month in Iraq and are entitled to no tax increases.
There have been very few moments in this campaign season when a candidate has made me want to stand up and cheer; one of those was Huckabee''s response to Romney that we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents do.
Romney & Guliani are the two biggest scum bag hypocritical dirt throwing ppolls in the race and the GOP would do well to avoid them like the plague.
But if they choose to nominate either one of them I''ll be ok with it.
Posted by atyou10
I would have thought the first "CEO" president would have had enough sense not to run his company/country like Enron, I would have thought he would have picked up that business acumen from Harvard, my bad.
Mike Huckabee is not racist and would not Preach from the Oval Office, there is no indication he Preached from the Governors office, so why would anyone expect that? Mike Huckabee strikes me as more of an Independent than a Republican. I like Huckabee because he''s a nice person, a rare bird in Politics these days, no more mean people!
The Democrats just settle for the corruption, but they at least spare us the ugliness of the open advocation of the other principles listed above. A vote for the Democrats is a vote to still lose your money, but at least we can say no to "racism" and all the other "isms".
Mitt Romney on the contrary was a Baker Scholar, the highest honor given to MBA graduates at Harvard. Look at what he did at Bain Capital it went from $1 million to more than $40 billion during his tenure. He took the 2002 Olympics from a $300+ million deficit to a $100 million profit in less than 3 years! While govenor of Massachussets he completely elimated a $3 billion deficit!
He''s got everything: smarts, tons of highly successful leadership experience, a role model family almost a throw back to "Leave it to Beaver" or "My Three Sons". It''d be nice for a change to have a president whose marriage and family are highly functional and where people can give pause and think, "what a nice family".
Mitt Romney is a class act and it is amazing that someone of his caliber is willing to put himself and family throught all this. He is by far the most capable person we''ve had running for president in decades. Even Bill Clinton with his Rhode Scholar doesn''t have as good a resume as Mitt Romney and I don''t think I need to go into the moral differences.
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