Fred! Grabs Lead in NC Primary Poll

Via WRAL:


According to a recent survey, Fred Thompson, who has not yet announced his presidential candidacy, has jumped into the lead in the North Carolina Republican primary.

The survey, released by Public Policy Polling, shows 37 percent of likely Republican primary voters would vote for the former senator from Tennessee -- a 12 percent increase from May.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani dropped to second place with 25 percent of likely Republican voters. Former Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney both garnered 14 percent.

Nine percent of Republican voters said they supported a candidate other than Thompson, Giuliani, McCain and Romney and 1 percent said they were undecided.

Not a bad showing at all, especially from someone who has yet to officially declare.

I must also confess that I'm a bit surprised at the strength of Fred!'s showing, leaping to a twelve-point lead over second-place Rudy Giuliani at a time that I didn't think he yet had made significant media penetration outside of the political junkies in the blogosphere.

In the same poll, John Edwards (30-percent) was leading the Democratic herd ahead of Hillary Clinton (26-percent) and Barack Obama (22-percent), suggesting that the recreational use of crystal meth is far more widespread in North Carolina than was previously believed.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at 02:10 PM

Comments

1 Fred will play amazingly well in the South.

Posted by: iamnot at June 07, 2007 02:29 PM (onj4J)

2 Fred Rocks I just went to imwithfred.com and donated for the first time in my life for a candidate.
I also bought everybody in my family a Fred T-shirt at tshirtpoll.com

Posted by: Greg at June 07, 2007 02:43 PM (lJa1y)

3 Thompson/Huckabee is my pick

Posted by: Rich at June 07, 2007 02:50 PM (EblDJ)

4 I'm with Fred! I just added a link to your post to my 2007.06.07 "Forty Four!" Roundup. (I stopped doing daily Fred! roundups and started doing daily Forty Four! roundups after Forty Four's visit with Sean Hannity Tuesday night.)

Posted by: Bill Faith at June 07, 2007 03:08 PM (n7SaI)

5 Fred Thompson is the man. Every conservative should be voting for him...let alone every person in America.

Posted by: Matt at June 07, 2007 03:10 PM (ezZoF)

6 I'm from North Carolina, lived here most my 55 yrs. I'm voteing for Fred Thompson !! Damn the others.

Posted by: Dennis Little at June 07, 2007 03:30 PM (9uGjJ)

7 What no Ron Paul? (j/k)

ImwithFred also (but not in NC)

Posted by: Lord Nazh at June 07, 2007 04:47 PM (ViYz5)

8 As a FREDeralist I'm excited to hear this! I just can't wait for Fred's official announcement in July so this virtually unseen tsunami of support will finally be acknowledged as something more than a "flash in the pan".

RUN FRED! RUN!

Posted by: Da Coyote at June 07, 2007 05:11 PM (Sb8LT)

9 Well in the home of Johnny Edwrads ( I am truely ashamed of that), its good to see. Go Fred. I like Rudy, Mitt, and Sam too! Good crop for the right. Losers on the left eh?

Posted by: NC Boy at June 07, 2007 06:06 PM (gBi1O)

10 Given the man we have in the White House, can we hold the election today?

Because I promise to vote for Fred if we can just end this now.

Posted by: David Terrenoire at June 07, 2007 08:38 PM (tk0b2)

11 Thompson-Hunter!

NC must be populated with trial lawyers if they like Edwards that much.

Posted by: Thomas Jackson at June 10, 2007 04:59 PM (A2ZNt)






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