Poll: New Hampshire Win Rockets McCain to GOP Front-Runner Status (Up 21 Points)

[Hissyspit]

Source: CNN

Poll: New Hampshire win rockets McCain to front-runner status
Republican John McCain jumps 21 points from last poll, now at 34 percent

By Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- John McCain's victory in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary appears to be paying off.
Sen. John McCain wins 34 percent of registered Republicans in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll. The senator from Arizona is the front-runner in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination, according to the first national poll taken after the New Hampshire primary.

McCain has the support of 34 percent of registered Republicans in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey out Friday. That's a 21-point jump from the last CNN/Opinion Research poll, taken in December, well before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary earlier this month.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa Republican caucuses, is in second place in the new survey, with 21 percent of those registered Republicans polled supporting him for the GOP nomination. Check out the poll »

Rudy Giuliani follows with 18 percent, a drop of six points from the December poll, when the former New York City mayor was the front-runner. "Only McCain gained support among Republicans nationally. McCain's now the clear Republican front-runner," said Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/11/2008.poll/index.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. McCain got damn lucky that all the rest of the Repubs

are so spectacularly defective. And it also helps him to have the mummified corpse of Dead Fred Thompson hanging around, making him look slightly less decrepit than he would otherwise. Loons and incompetents like Giuliani and Mittens and Hunter are the best things that could have happened to him.

[bullimiami]

2. the evanjugicals arent going to like that much.

[papau]

3. this is same poll that has Hillary up nine to 49% post NH (53% to 44% in 2 person race)

[sunonmars]

4. Hilary up on 49%

Bloody hell, she ratched that up a notch.

[melody]

5. Haven't they cycled through everybody now?

Is McCain going to be voted "least reprehensible"? That's the only way he'll get the nom.

[hedgetrimmer]

6. Romney has the most delegates... delagates vote

for nominee not polls.

[AZ Criminal JD]

7. Only about 1% of the delegates have been choosen so far

Whoever is in the lead at this point is meaningless. It is the momentum that is important.

[hedgetrimmer]

8. Mute point, here comes the "it's this it's that"

Lets go out back and take turns poking eachother in the eye. That would be just as productive as guessing who's gonna get the nomination, neither of us will be able to see clearly until the totals are in. :toast:

[QUALAR]

9. GOP TURD

Sometimes you get an aerated turd that, regardless of how many times you flush it, floats to the top. Maverick my ass. Check his votes on habeas corpus, torture immunity for Bush, and many others then decide if he gives a shit about the average American.

[DrDan]

10. c'mon . . . the fix is in

rudy will take over that spot on super-Tuesday . . .

The RNC would never let the people decide their destiny . . .

[Acadia Blue]

11. repigs can now march in step. They can not tolerate chaos.