[deport]

This is going to be two interesting run ups to the primaries with both parties having a lot of early entries. Wasn't there something like 6 or more in some of the democrat debates last time?....

Polling Data

If the 2008 Republican presidential primary were held today, for whom would you vote if the candidates were:

	Dec. 2006	Aug. 2006	Mar. 2006
Rudy Giuliani	30%	27%	29%
John McCain	23%	25%	22%
Newt Gingrich	9%	14%	8%
Mitt Romney	8%	5%	4%
Sam Brownback	3%	n.a.	n.a.
George Pataki	2%	4%	2%
Duncan Hunter	1%	n.a.	n.a.
Chuck Hagel	--	3%	1%
Other	1%	3%	3%
Not sure	22%	14%	22%
Would not vote	2%	1%	1%

Source: Opinion Dynamics / Fox News
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 900 registered American voters, conducted on Dec. 5 and Dec. 6, 2006. Margin of error for the sample of registered Republican voters is 5 per cent.

[gitmo]

Newt.

[Vigilanteman]

Interesting. Romney, Duncan Hunter and "Would Not Vote" are the only ones extending their share in every single vote . . . and all three are STILL in the single digits.

[StockAyatollah]

If that list is all that the Republicans have to offer, then I'll probably be choosing the Constitution Party candidate.