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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Fred Thompson can.
Mike Huckabee: The Slick Televangelist of the 2008 Presidential Race
I’m highly doubtful. But I can understand why you might think so.
Now if only Fred Thompson will. Still waiting... if he can't get past the supposed media conspiracy to deny him the nomination, then I'll be convinced that he can't.
What it implies is that McCain and Edwards would get more support among independents, while holding onto their respective party vote. I don’t find that very surprising. Intra-party races have very different dynamics than national ones.
You missed one!
The Bush's have done their best to ruin the Republican Party but it's really Reagan's fault. He should have sent GHW Bush back to Texas in 1980 and picked someone conservative and capable to be his VP. Letting GHW Bush play lap dog with a giant Christmas card list as VP was a huge disservice to his administration and the nation.
Rudy is the most electable of the GOP field, and that’s why he has my support.
Oh, and Ron “9/11 Truther” Paul can?
I dunno if it’s a conspiracy, but they do seem to be ignoring him.
Your namesake is rolling over in his grave.
So you would give up your values this early in the game? It seems as more and more skeletons are exposed, he is becoming less and less electable.
No way. Ron Paul is completely out of step with the mainstream of the conservative movement and the GOP.
Just to let you know, that poster supports Alan Keyes.
Yes they have! It is good for me, as I hardly listen to any of them anymore.
For the same reason the media is ignoring Fred Thompson.
Glad Fred joined the fray. Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo were getting lonely being the only ones to be ignored.
So is Alan Keyes to be honest.
That does not surprise me at all. Personally, I think Edwards would be the toughest to beat, Hillary the easiest. Thankfully, the dems haven’t seemed to noticed that.
Duncan Hunter could if folks would look at the issues as opposed to what the powers that be are telling us the issues are!
“So you agree with the MSM that those who favor him (apparently Evangelicals) are uneducated and easily manipulated?”
No, I believe the vast majority of his supporters are misguided.
I keep coming back to Mitt Romney, not perfect, but electable and better than Rootie.
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