Fred Thompson Surges to Within Six of the Lead in New Hampshire - Rasmussen 9/18/07

Blogs For Fred Thompson ^ | September 18, 2007 | brkcmo

[blogsforthompson.com]

Fred Thompson has surged to within six points of the lead in New Hampshire, moving to third place behind Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani according to a new Rasmussen Poll in the state! This represents a huge move up for Fred in a very short time. Here are the numbers followed by the Rasmussen recap........

[deport]

Maybe the biggest plus in NH for Thompson at this time is his negatives have gone down and his positives have risen from 38% to 62% as people begin to become of aware of him and his campaign.

Survey of 500 Likely GOP Voters
September 16, 2007

New Hampshire GOP Primary
Mitt Romney	25%
Rudy Giuliani	22%
Fred Thompson	19%
John McCain	12%
Mike Huckabee	4%
Some other candidate	5%

[ansel12]

The Stepford candidate should just go away, Fred is showing him the door.

[ejonesie22]

Rather rapidly too...

[Names Ash Housewares]

Boy, Fred better be careful, or he just might win huh?

[RockinRight]

I don’t want Fred to win NH, I want him to come in second...since the winner in NH pretty much never gets the nomination.

[ejonesie22]

Good point, don’t want to foul up the mojo...

[Politicalmom]

I want him to win EVERYTHING in a massive landslide, proving that “political pundits” are morons, the GOP elites are losers, and that Americans recognize quality and always come through when it counts.

:)

[kevkrom]

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that Fred Thompson is the top choice for 28% of Likely Republican Primary Voters. In the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Rudy Giuliani is the favorite for just 19%. John McCain is preferred by 14% and Mitt Romney attracts support from 12%. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee remains atop the second tier at 6% (see recent daily numbers).

Today's numbers are identical, except Huckabee is at 5% (must be the huge "Voter Values Debate" bounce). Plotting the last 20 and then using a 4-day moving average (since it's a 4-day sample) shows that over the last week or so, the numbers have stabilized at their current levels, so it was no surprise that the weekly Rasmussen tracked Friday's daily almost exactly. Thompson isn't showing any sign of losing his "bounce", with his last six results being a very consistent 28/28/28/27/28/28. Guiliani has trickled down to just under 20% but seems to have stopped the bleeding. McCain is the only candidate trending up over the last few days, but it could be statistical noise. Romney continues to be at the 13% +/- 3% level, though consistently on the low side for the last week.

[Rick_Michael]

[festus]

Rudy just needs to be exposed.

He's probably pretty fond of that too...........