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Ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gains in poll of Alabama voters
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 30, 2007 08:33am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Birmingham News |
| News Date | Friday, November 30, 2007 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Friday, November 30, 2007KENT FAULKNews staff writer
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has pushed his way into the small pack of leading Republican presidential contenders favored by Alabamians, according to a new poll.
Meanwhile, state Democrats continue to overwhelmingly support Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, who maintains a commanding lead over Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, according to the poll by the Capital Survey Research Center.
The center, an arm of the Alabama Education Association teachers lobby, called 875 likely voters statewide. The poll was taken Nov. 19-20 and Nov. 26-27. The margin of error is plus or minus 5 percent in the Republican primary and 4.7 percent in the Democratic primary.
The vote is Feb. 5.
Huckabee, who recently has gained more national attention with his campaign, was favored by 17 percent of likely Republican voters, up from 9 percent and 2 percent in the October and September polls.
Huckabee is now statistically even with former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said Gerald W. Johnson, director of the polling center. "Alabamians reflect national trends. We are not some aberration here in the South,"he said. |
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