Posted on 11/14/2007 12:41:26 PM PST by jmc813
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is forcing polls to adjust and quickly. A poll released Tuesday by CBS and NY Times shows Paul at 8% in New Hampshire ahead of Fred Thompson and tied with McCain in Iowa.
This follows polls released by the Boston Globe in association with the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, and the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion that also showed Ron Paul passing Fred Thompson in New Hampshire.
“The polls confirm what we already know: Congressman Paul is catching on in the early primary states,” said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. “His unifying message of freedom, peace, and prosperity is resonating strongly with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and we’re rapidly gaining support nationwide.”
The CBS-New York Times poll was conducted November 2-12. On November 5, the Ron Paul campaign brought in a record-breaking $4.2 million online, and an additional $1 million to end the week.
Yesterday John Zogby told Sean Hannity that Ron Paul may embarrass some frontrunners in New Hampshire by getting 15-18% of the vote.
The adjustments by pollsters and pundits polling results regarding Ron Paul raise the issue of whether polls are an inaccurate and lagging indicator of a candidates support. Paul had been sitting at 1-2% for months in media generated polls despite raising considerable funds and drawing large crowds. Paul rallied a crowd of 5,000 in Philadelphia last weekend.
Fox News and the Iowa GOP have decided to use 5% in Iowa or National polls as a bar to exclude candidates from a presidential debate in early December. Visit the USA Daily Forum to discuss this and other issues.
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Who was polled?
This idiot is WORSE than a dumbocrat!
Not sure if this is an approved news source for FR, can’t recall.
But I’ll ping the list.
This race is WIDE open. Vote for the true conservative. Go Hunter.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why New Hampshire has become irrelevant for the GOP nomination; the nutbags and backbenchers do their best in that state.
Neither Iowa nor NH will make any difference for the GOP. South Carolina will tell the tale.
Not Rudy?
Rudy does it for me. If the choice comes down to Rudy or Hillary, I’ll probably stay home.
Totally agree. It irks me that some folks are trying to choose the lesser of two evils and backing someone just because they seem electable and "can beat Hillary".
I'm backing Hunter because he's the best man.
The race is indeed wide open. Go Thompson! And congrats to Dr. Paul and his supporters.
Can someone tell me why Fred Thompson does so horribly in NH?
Hunter is the one candidate that I agree with everything that he says. Here’s hoping that he steps out and gets recognized by the undecided voters.
Voting for Rudy is the same as a vote for Hillary, IMO.
You just answered the question....
NH...
BS too early on any polls anywhere.
“Can someone tell me why Fred Thompson does so horribly in NH?”
Time will tell.
This time around, it looks like FL will tell the tale.
But it is good to see RP rising a bit.
The Ron Paul campaign thus far has been pretty much as grassroots as it gets. It’s hard to dislike that approach, no matter how you feel about the candidate.
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