Romney regains lead in Iowa (UPDATED)
This week all eyes will be on Iowa. As the Sunday morning talking heads continued saying “Mike Huckabee leads in Iowa” all morning long, two polls came out that said otherwise.
According to a new ARG poll, Mitt leads Huck 32 to 23. McCain comes in third with 11. All other candidates are in single digits.
A McClatchy - MSNBC poll shows Romney with a 4% lead over Huckabee, within the margin of error. Huckabee dropped 8 points.
(UPDATE) A new Reuters poll just came out showing “Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, held a statistically insignificant one-point edge over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 29 percent to 28 percent.”
December 30th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
ROTFL!
Check this one out.
This is the first time two ads in a row have shown Romney leading- and his folks have been seizing on anomylous polls showing positive results for literally weeks. Each time, several new polls come out in succeeding days establishing a pattern that
has Huckabee still ahead.
The race will be close, and it remains volatile. But this is the third time Romney has “regained the lead” in as many weeks- and it usually lasts a day or two at most before a larger number of polls with bigger samples say exactly the opposite.
December 30th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Bob - thanks for the comment.
You are right. Iowa has always been near impossible to poll. This one is going to be tight to the very end.
However, no matter who polls put in the lead, they are all saying that Romney has at minimum, closed the gap since the Huckaboom.