Question: Which one of the following Republican candidates would be your first choice for president? (Among those who don’t volunteer a first choice) Toward which candidate would you say you are leaning, or would say you support the most? And who would your second choice be?

Sam Brownback. John Cox. Rudy Giuliani. Mike Huckabee. Duncan Hunter. Alan Keyes. John McCain. Ron Paul. Mitt Romney. Tom Tancredo. Fred Thompson.

Romney 29%
Thompson, F 18%
Huckabee 12%
Giuliani 11%
McCain 7%
Tancredo 5%
Paul 4%
Brownback 2%
Keyes 2%
Hunter 1%
Not Sure/Uncommitted 9%

About this Poll
The Iowa Poll, conducted for The Des Moines Register by Selzer & Co. Inc. of Des Moines, is based on interviews with 399 registered Iowa voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the Democratic caucuses and 405 registered voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the Republican caucuses.

Interviewers contacted randomly selected voters registered as Democrat, Republican or no-party by using randomly selected telephone numbers from the Iowa secretary of state’s voter registration list.

Percentages based on the full sample may have a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. Republishing the copyrighted Iowa Poll without credit to The Des Moines Register is prohibited.

The poll was conducted Oct 1-3.