From USAToday, Feb 6, 2008:
“Is Mike Huckabee’s continued presence in the race hurting Mitt Romney? In our latest USA Today/Gallup poll Huckabee supporters were asked for whom they would vote if the race came down to John McCain or Mitt Romney.
The results? McCain wins over Romney as the second choice of Huckabee voters by more than a 2 to 1 margin, 64% to 28%. Indeed, McCain beats Romney 42% to 24% with Huckabee in the race (Huckabee gets 18% of the vote, Ron Paul gets 5%, and Alan Keyes gets 2%). With a narrowed-down ballot focused just on McCain and Romney (forcing Huckabee voters to choose between the two front-runners), McCain wins 53% to 30% — a slightly expanded margin.
In other words, it does not appear as if Huckabee supporters would be supporting Romney at any unusually high rate if Huckabee were to drop out of the race.
Where did the LIEberal Rag USA Today conduct their poll?
In latte shoppes?
NONE of the Huck voters I know would EVER vote for McCain.