Rasmussen: Fred Thompson stays ahead in GOP primary

[Tender Branson]

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Thompson: 27% (-)
Giuliani: 24% (+1)
Romney: 13% (+1)
McCain: 12% (+1)
Huckabee: 3%

Six other candidates--Senator Sam Brownback, Congressman Ron Paul, Congressman Tom Tancredo, former Governor Tommy Thompson, Congressman Duncan Hunter, and former Governor Jim Gilmore—split 4% of the vote. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure.

Thompson has a 16-point advantage over Giuliani among conservatives while Giuliani holds an even larger edge among moderate voters. However, in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, there are always more conservative voters than moderates.

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[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

F.Thompson is the weaker opponent to Clinton, he is losing to Ms. Clinton by an average of 3.5 pts compared to -2.4 pts by Giuliani.

[DownWithTheLeft]

F.Thompson is the weaker opponent to Clinton, he is losing to Ms. Clinton by an average of 3.5 pts compared to -2.4 pts by Giuliani.

This might be too much for you to handle but there is a thing called name recognition and the election beng a long way away

[Sam Spade]

Time will tell whether Rasmussen is catching something the other pollsters are missing, or is just way off base.

[Tender Branson]

F.Thompson is the weaker opponent to Clinton, he is losing to Ms. Clinton by an average of 3.5 pts compared to -2.4 pts by Giuliani.

This might be too much for you to handle but there is a thing called name recognition and the election beng a long way away

From an earlier thread:

Increased name recognition doesn´t add more votes to Thompson as seen in the Rasmussen polling. When Thompson was first polled in March he led Clinton by 1% and yet he was only known by 59% of voters. In the May poll Clinton led by 5% over Thompson, yet he was now known by 76%.

[AndrewTX]

I'm not taking anything for granted in the 2008 election, and I don't trust GE polls yet.  Things can change and Thompson can crush Clinton, and at the same time Clinton could really cream Giuliani.

 The only polls I'm worried about is primary polls, and anything that isn't Zogby.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I think F.Thompson's views on immigration are going to hurt him more than anything else, perhaps not so much as for Giuliani. And in 2000 and 2004, Bush was able to get that off the table for the GOP where it won't be in 2008.