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John Zogby conducted polls May 14 and 15 that included 511 likely participants in the Democratic caucus (margin of error is +/-4.4) and 478 likely participants in the Republican caucus (margin of error is +/- 4.6).
On the Republican side of things “I Dunno” continues to hold the lead at a steady 22 percent. The Democratic participants still trend toward Sen. John Edwards, although his support dropped a percentage point since the end of March (still well within the margin of error).
Click “read/comments” below to see the full results.
The full results are:
|
Republicans |
5/15/07 |
3/28/07 |
1/16/07 |
| Giuliani | 18% | 25% | 19% |
| McCain | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| Romney | 19% | 11% | 5% |
| F. Thompson | 9% | 7% | ? |
| T. Thompson | 4% | 5% | 1% |
| Gingrich | – | ? | 13% |
| Rice | – | ? | 9% |
| Brownback | 2% | 3% | 1% |
| Huckabee | 2% | 2% | 1% |
| Tancredo | 3% | 1% | 2% |
| Hagel | <1% | 1% | 2% |
| Not sure | 22% | 22% | 22% |
|
Democrats |
5/15/07 |
3/26/07 |
1/16/07 |
| Edwards | 26% | 27% | 27% |
| Clinton | 24% | 25% | 16% |
| Obama | 22% | 23% | 17% |
| Biden | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| Richardson | 6% | 3% | 1% |
| Kucinich | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Dodd | <1% | 1% | <1% |
| Not Sure | 16% | 15% | 13% |
The first thing which jumps out is the continued increase of confidence in Gov. Mitt Romney. Polling at just five percent four months ago, he has now worked his way into 19 percent of the respondent’s hearts and has morphed the GOP contest into more of a three-way race.
The way the numbers are distributed for the Republican candidates, it appears that most of the support Romney gained came from his opponent Rudy Giuliani. If that is the case, it will be interesting to see if this a temporary bounce due to Giuliani’s own press issues these past few days.
Not much has changed for the Iowa Democrats. Most notable in the numbers is the three percent increase for Gov. Bill Richardson, although this — and all the pluses and minuses up and down the board — fall well within the margin of error.
On both sides of the aisle there seem to be many individuals who have yet to make up their minds.
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