It was a busy week in the race for the GOP nomination. John McCain picked up key endorsements, Mike Huckabee picked up a campaign manager, Mitt Romney decided to go negative on Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani moved to rebuild his support in Florida, and Fred Thompson moved to Iowa for the duration.
All year, Iowa has been a must-win state for Barack Obama and John Edwards. Now, with just two-and-a-half weeks to go until voters finally get a say in Election 2008, Iowa is becoming more and more important to Hillary Clinton.
Former Senator John Edwards now leads Senator John McCain 46% to 39%. Edwards leads former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee 49% to 37%.The new survey shows little movement in the hypothetical general-election race between Edwards and McCain.
New York Senator Hillary Clinton continues to hold a huge lead in Presidential Primary.
Mitt Romney’s strategy for winning the Republican nomination was to win the early states and build momentum. Rudy Giuliani’s plan was to accept defeats in the early states and come back strong on January 29 in Florida and in many large states on February 5.
Senator Barack Obama and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani are now tied in the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey, with each drawing 43% of likely voters.
The issue of torture has again jumped to the fore with the revelation that in 2005 the Central Intelligence Agency destroyed videotapes of interrogations of terrorism suspects, some three years after the interrogations were conducted.
Huck-a-mania has not made its way to New Hampshire. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the state shows former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 33% support and a fifteen point lead. That’s the third straight Rasmussen poll to show Romney leading by at least fifteen points in the Granite State.
In the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, New Hampshire has joined Iowa in the too close to call category.
The campaign of Congressman Ron Paul, the Texas libertarian and Republican, continues to generate prolific media coverage about its prolific fundraising, enthusiastic supporters, innovative Internet and other strategies, and its candidate's willingness to sharply differentiate himself from the GOP mainstream.
Despite all the hoopla and negative campaigning and Oprah, the Democratic race in Iowa remains pretty much the same as its been for the past month—way too close to call.
It was just two weeks ago that Rasmussen Reports released the first Iowa Caucus poll showing Mike Huckabee with an advantage over Mitt Romney.
Intangibles matter in campaigns and 26% of Americans believe that Hillary Clinton seems to be the most Presidential of the Democratic candidates.
Twenty-three percent (23%) now want the troops brought home immediately. That’s down three points from a week ago and five points from the week before.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may have the "home state" advantage in Massachusetts, where he's lived only a few years.
In his home state of Arizona, a resurgent Senator John McCain is now toppling top Democratic opponents by 20%+ margins.
In some ways, the Democratic Presidential Nomination is the same as it’s been all year. Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner, Barack Obama is a serious challenger, and John Edwards is somewhat in the running.
While pundits and analysts have pored over the details of Mitt Romney’s speech last week, nearly half the nation’s voters could not identify which Republican had given a major speech on faith and religion.
For months, Rasmussen Reports has used words like fluid, murky, and muddled to describe the state of the race for the Republicans Presidential nomination. Those words still apply today.
As Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have gained ground in recent polling, some pundits have speculated that the nomination of these once long-shot candidates might provide a real opening for Michael Bloomberg.
