Clinton, McCain leads shrink in New Hampshire: poll

[TeddyKGB]

Source: Reuters

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain hold shrinking leads in New Hampshire three days before the state's presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Saturday.

Most of the polling in the four-day tracking survey was taken before the Iowa caucuses on Thursday, when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee sailed to wins in the opening test of the presidential campaign.

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.

Read more: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2008-01-05T134259Z_01_N04274456_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-POLITICS-POLL.xml

[Triana]

1. Well at least they MENTIONED Edwards...

...that's an improvement.

[durtee librul]

2. LOL!!! You're right, at least he got mentioned! n/t

[balantz]

5. Who's Edwards?

[krabigirl]

7. I know! About time...

[BlueManDude]

3. Obama is not only beating Hillary - he's hurting McCain. Very good.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Zogby tracking poll:

Bounce revisited

Actually, the relatively small bounce in that Zogby poll isn't an indicator that Obama's not getting an Iowa bounce.

I just spoke to Zogby, who said 80 percent of the poll calls -- which were placed over 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. yesterday -- were made before Obama's victory was known.

"If you take just that 20 percent -- which is a fairly small group -- you see the movement," Zogby said. "Obama up around 8, Hillary down around 4."

Again, that's a tiny sample, a bit over 100 people. But I'd misread Zogby to suggest there won't be much of a bounce; instead, it seems to suggest the opposite.

But I'm sure we'll be drowning in data soon.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Bounce_revisited.html

[balantz]

6. I can't get in at the Rasmussen site,

does anyone have today's numbers? Edwards INCLUDED!