Posted on 12/11/2007 6:23:28 AM PST by tlb
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests.
In head-to-head matchups -- the first to include Huckabee -- the former Arkansas governor loses to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York by 10 percentage points (54 percent to 44 percent), to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois by 15 points (55 percent to 40 percent) and to former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina by 25 points (60 percent to 35 percent).
The poll comes on the heels of a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Monday that showed Huckabee doubled his support nationally among likely Republican voters in the last month and is in a statistical dead heat with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
But Huckabee's double-digit deficits with the leading Democrats likely suggest that the Arkansas Republican still lacks widespread name recognition.
The poll also shows that Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona would do best against leading Democrats. He beats Clinton (50 percent to 48 percent), ties Obama (48 percent to 48 percent) and loses to Edwards by a smaller margin (8 points) than the other Republican candidates do.
In addition to Huckabee, Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney lose to all three top Democrats in the survey.
On the Democratic side, Edwards performs best against each of the leading Republicans. In addition to beating Huckabee by 25 percent and McCain by 8 percent, the North Carolina Democrat beats Romney by 22 percentage points (59 percent to 37 percent).
While the survey shows McCain and Edwards performing best in their respective fields, both candidates continue to significantly trail their parties' front-runners significantly.
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Drudge Report excerpt: "He'll (Huckabee) easily be their McGovern, an easy kill," mocked one senior Democrat operative Tuesday morning from Washington.
I’ve had enough of the Bushes too. No thanks.
I see you are from Arkansas :-)
Come on...can’t you at least argue that I could be wrong?!!
It’s early for Huckabee in the polls but I can’t really see him being able to handle Hillary in the debates.
I agree with you but I think he would be Obama or at least I hope he could if he is the nomination. Of course this poll will be taken seriously here...lol.
Good, because Ronald Reagan's son Michael feels the same way.
“If conservatives could take a sheet of paper and write down everything they wanted in a candidate…Duncan Hunter is that man". - Michael Reagan
“It’s early for Huckabee in the polls but I can’t really see him being able to handle Hillary in the debates.”
EXACTLY. It’s a setup by the DEMS. Go look at Drudge.
Huck’s got to work on his glass jaw...
Electability = perception that one can deliver a desired outcome or product
Electability = the “he can win New Jersey!” pipe dream
Never mind the fact that the only way for a Republican to win a wretched state like Jersey is to run like a Democrat. Just win, baby!
This poll is extremely suspicious:
1) the source the Corrupt News Network
2) DNC leak on DRUDGE the same day
3) other polls conflict with it
untrustworthy DNC denies leak?:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1207/DNC_denies_Drudge_item_came_from_them.html
I’m always dissappointed to hear some say I’m voting for anyone because he’s the most “electable”. How about the best one on the issues. We all cave to quickly.
The best on the issues has to be somewhere between Hunter, Fred, and Mitt. Not Rudy or the Huckster. If we could all agree on that it would be a start.
Duh! This is yet another reason why Hucksterbee would be an atrocious candidate.
One big problem facing the GOP is voter fraud, with the ACLU working to facilitate it.
"[ACLU] asked registrars in Virginia's 1st Congressional District to make sure poll workers tell voters in today's special election that they don't have to show photo identification. . . . ACLU executive director Kent Willis . . . asked registrars yesterday to have poll workers inform voters that THEY CAN CAST BALLOTS EVEN IF THEY DON'T HAVE IDENTIFICATION." (The Washington Times, December 11, 2007)
There are other polls from just a copule of weeks ago that show all the GOPers, including Huckabee, beating Hillary (http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1393). I always find it interesting how polls can differ so much from pollster to pollster, from week to week.
Well, it is looking more and more like our choices will be demonrats, even though a few insert an “R” after their names.
I agree. And MSM would come out strong for Hillary and trash him as they did in the final days of Bush vs Kerry.
I never said pick him because he is likable, I said he would own Hillary in the debates..
Why bother, you make up crap on the fly...
Maybe this is there way of attempting to stop any potential conservative support
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