Getting a little interesting.
Obama, Huckabee Lead in New Iowa Poll Sunday, December 2, 2007 11:33 AM
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama and surging Republican Mike Huckabee built leads in a new poll in Iowa, just over a month before the key state's leadoff nominating contests.
Obama edged out national Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton by 28 points to 25, in the poll published in Sunday's Des Moines Register newspaper, confirming his upward trend in several recent polls in the state.
Former senator John Edwards was third on 23 percent in the poll, which shows the race is still a dog fight between the top three contenders.
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, meanwhile kept up his come-from-nowhere charge to lead the poll on the Republican side on 29 percent, a stunning 17 point percent rise since October.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has spent millions of dollars in the state and led the polls for months, came in second on 24 percent, with former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani on 13 percent.
On the Democratic side, Obama rose six percent in the poll since October, while Clinton was down four percent.
However, polling political support in the midwestern state is notoriously difficult, given the quirky nature of the caucuses, which require activists to show up to a political meeting on a frigid winter night to choose a candidate.
Nearly half of Democrats and 61 percent of Republicans in the poll said they could still change their mind on their favored candidate before the caucuses. Analysts predict the Iowa caucuses on January 3 could either bolster the sheen of inevitability Clinton has been building around her campaign, or set the stage for a nationwide contest with any candidate who beats her.
The telephone survey of 500 likely Iowa caucus goers was conducted last week and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
The Des Moines Register poll also appeared to confirm rising support for Obama among women voters -- a key part of Clinton's power base.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Obama,_Huckabee_iowa/2007/12/02/53815.html
