In a surprising twist, White House hopeful Sen. John McCain has gained nine points in the latest Rasmussen Survey of likely GOP voters in South Carolina and pulled into a solid second place. Mike Huckabee gained five points while Mitt Romney dropped eight.
Here are the totals:
Mike Huckabee 28%
John McCain 21%
Mitt Romney 15%
Fred Thompson 11%
Rudy Giuliani 10%
Ron Paul 4%
Expect thes numbers to change significantly after tomorrow night’s New Hampshire primary.
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[...] Rodgers wonders whether Fred Thompson’s South Carolina bus tour will help him in the same way his Iowa one did: The tour will be 11-days, leading up to the Palmetto State’s [...]
Now with his second win, Mitt Romney is the clear front-runner in both total delegates earned as well as total votes received. Romney now has more delegates than McCain and Huckabee combined.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#R
*** Although McCain lost Michigan by a whopping 9.25%, the news of the loss was not all bad.
Exit polls show that McCain won among voters that identified themselves as Union Members, Democrats, and Atheists. He also won among those who
• want abortion “legal”
• are “angry” with Bush
• earn less than $30,000/yr
• “never” attend church
• want a path to citizenship for Illegal Immigrants, and
• disapprove of the war in Iraq
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#MIREP