Conservative Wordsmith Susan Baldwin writes: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is leading in the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary by a wide margin, according to the most recent Rasmussen Reports telephone survey. The report shows that Governor Mitt Romney has a nineteen-point lead with a 34% support. "Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information."
"Making the most of his home field advantage, Romney has steadily increased his lead from fifteen points earlier in November, nine-points in October and three-points in September."
"The new primary election poll shows a virtual three-way tie for second place between former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Arizona Senator John McCain at 15% and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee at 14%. For Giuliani and McCain, those figures are a very slight dip from earlier in the month while Huckabee has gained four more percentage points."
"Romney is viewed favorably by 80% of Likely Primary voters, McCain by 75%, and Giuliani by 71%. For McCain, that positive assessment reflects a remarkable comeback from the summer when he was viewed favorably by just 53% of Likely Republican Primary Voters. At the time, he was also viewed unfavorably by 43%.
Huckabee is now viewed favorably by 60% and unfavorably by 31% of Likely Primary Voters in New Hampshire."
"Fred Thompson's decline has been so dramatic that his favorable ratings are closer to Ron Paul's than to the frontrunners. Just 50% have a favorable opinion of Thompson while 44% say the opposite. In September, Thompson earned 19% of the vote in New Hampshire. That has fallen to just 3% today."
"In fact, Thompson now trails Ron Paul who earns 8% support in the latest poll. Paul is viewed favorably by 36% of Likely Republican Primary Voters and unfavorably by 57%. The Texas Congressman brings a surprisingly large campaign bank account to the state and his campaign will present an interesting wild card for voters and other candidates."
"This telephone survey of 881 Likely Republican Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports November 29, 2007. The margin of sampling error for the is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence."
Thanks to New Hampshire: Romney 34% Giuliani 15% McCain 15% Huckabee 14%
for the above story and excerpts. Click this link to read the entire article. rasmussenreports.com Fri Nov 30, 10:37 AM ET
What can I say? When I tell you that Governor Mitt Romney, a Mormon, is the right choice, The Man of Values, some of my evangelical Christian readers take offense. Nevertheless, there are several top evangelical Christian leaders currently supporting Mitt Romney. In spite of this fact, some of my evangelical readers continue to contend that Mitt Romney is going to Hell one day due to his Mormon beliefs, and consistently state that this, in and of itself, is an excellent reason to support someone other than Mitt. They completely ignore Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution.*
I strongly disagree with their contention, as I'm sure many of my readers already know. Like it or not, America was founded on the principle of religious tolerance, and there is no way of avoiding, or getting around, this truth.**
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The original date of this post was
December 2, 2007.
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