Poll: GOP presidential race muddled in S.C.

By: Associated Press | SCNow
Published: December 04, 2007

THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans in South Carolina

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THE NUMBERS

Rudy Giuliani, 19 percent

Mitt Romney, 19 percent

Fred Thompson, 18 percent

John McCain, 13 percent

Mike Huckabee, 10 percent

Ron Paul, 6 percent

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OF INTEREST:

The Jan. 19 South Carolina contest stands as a three-way tie — and one or more other candidates could be in contention, too. It is the best of the three important early voting states for Thompson, who has a modest lead among men and less-educated Republicans. Just over half the state's GOP voters are white evangelicals, yet Huckabee — who dominates their support in Iowa — gets backing from only one in eight of them in South Carolina. He's the candidate of only seven percent of non-evangelicals. Conservatives here have yet to coalesce around one candidate.

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The telephone poll, by The Associated Press and the Pew Research Center, was conducted Nov. 7-25 and involved interviews with 468 likely Republican voters in South Carolina. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.

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COMPLETE RESULTS: http://people-press.org