Top Dogs Slipping in New Hampshire
Bad news for John McCave and Hillary "I'm for change too" Clinton - with only days to go, the numbers are moving away from you in New Hampshire. And those results don't even account for any Iowa bounce for Huckabee and Obama:
In New Hampshire, Clinton's lead over Obama in the Democratic race shrunk slightly to four points, 32 percent to 28 percent. John Edwards, a former North Carolina senator who finished second in Iowa, was in third place with 20 percent.
Among Republicans, McCain's lead over rival Mitt Romney fell by two points to 32 percent against 30 percent. Huckabee, a Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor, gained two points to 12 percent.
"Overall the numbers have not moved that much but there was the beginning of a post-Iowa bounce for Obama and Huckabee," pollster John Zogby said. "We will see more tomorrow but I think we will clearly see them make gains."
Independents, who can participate in either party's primary in New Hampshire, appear to be leaning toward Democrats this year, following a growing national trend. According to Zogby, about 40 percent of the Democratic vote is coming from independents this year while about one fourth of the Republican vote comes from that segment of voters.
Obama, who rode a wave of support for his outsider's message of change to the win in Iowa, leads the Democratic field among independents with 34 percent. Clinton was at 26 percent. On the GOP side, McCain is the top Republican choice for independents at 42 percent, well ahead of Romney at 29 percent.
Labels: Clinton, Huckabee, McCain, New Hampshire, Obama, zogby
posted by John Good @ 1:17 PM
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Americans want change in Washington, there's no doubt about that.
But try as they will to convince voters that they're the candidate for change, it seems obvious to me that candidates who are already firmly entrenched Washington insiders are NOT the ones who will make those changes.
It's exactly that insider same old, same old "experience" so many of the candidates tout that most Americans want to get rid of.
WASHINGTON CANNOT FIX WASHINGTON!
Mitt Romney makes a telling comment:
“People who have been there all their careers don’t begin to have the freedom of movement and the capacity to change Washington. They’ve got lobbyists at every elbow, the deals have been worked out in the Senate cloakrooms are just so overwhelming – the scores that have to be settled, all of the favors that have to honored. You just can’t get the job done in Washington with people that have been in Washington all their lives. So people are saying you know what? We need change.”
To me it seems perfectly clear that the most qualified outsider candidate, the one who is most likely to make real change in Washington, is Mitt Romney.
Romney's MBA and Doctorate from Harvard, his proven record of success in making the right executive decisions time after time, and his lifetime devotion to the family values cherished by most Americans demonstrate clearly that he's the man for the Whitehouse.
I think it's time for Americans to unite behind that man - he's head and shoulders above ALL the other candidates.
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