CNN Poll: Huckabee would lose to top Democrats by double digits

[cal04]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/10/poll.head.to.head/index.html

While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests.

In head-to-head matchups -- the first to include Huckabee -- the former Arkansas governor loses to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York by 10 percentage points (54 percent to 44 percent), to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois by 15 points (55 percent to 40 percent) and to former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina by 25 points (60 percent to 35 percent).

The poll comes on the heels of a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Monday that showed Huckabee doubled his support nationally among likely Republican voters in the last month and is in a statistical dead heat with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. View complete poll results

But Huckabee's double-digit deficits with the leading Democrats likely suggest that the Arkansas Republican still lacks widespread name recognition nationally, according to Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.

[enid602]

1. devine intervention

Maybe that's why God is supposedly surging his campaign's current successes.

[Gman]

2. Little surprise here

"Huckabee" ends with a vowel.

[cali]

3. So does Obama. n/t

[DrFunkenstein]

4. I Have Thought This All Along

I have dreamed that the Republicans would split their votes across a ton of candidates and end up nominating a "true conservative."

[tekisui]

5. He is superficial and a one-note huck.

No Independent or Democrat would vote for him, how could he win?

For that matter what repuke could pull any independents this year?

Rudy? no.
Romney? hell no.
Thompson? :rofl:
Mccain? not with a Democrat option.

[bunkerbuster1]

7. Their best bet is to put McCain out there and hope the Dem stumbles badly.

McCain can be their placeholder candidate a la BobDole in 1996.

There's little for the GOP to lose if McCain goes down gracefully. Of course, the national party will never concede the race this early but I won't be surprised to see this happen come next November.

[aquart]

10. "There's little for the GOP to lose if McCain goes down gracefully. "

Could you translate that into English? I haven't a clue what it's supposed to mean.

[bunkerbuster1]

14. I was likening the situation to 1996, when Bob Dole was cannon fodder

If the election of 2008 is a write-off, there's no point in sacrificing / putting through the general election mill one of their rockstars.

You can come back after a primary defeat and run again and win. Coming back after being beaten in the general? Only Nixon has done that in living memory.

[Joe Bacon]

6. Gee, HUCK SINN may win the battle but he'll lose the war!

It's just amazing to see how every Republic Party candidate is dissolving like an Alka Seltzer tablet.

Plop plop fizz fizz O what a relief it is... :evilgrin:

[last_texas_dem]

8. I like those numbers

I just saw this on CNN a few minutes ago, and loved the results. I do think much of it is due to Huckabee's lack of name recognition, and I think if he ended up being the Repug candidate he'd actually be a pretty tough candidate to face. But as an Edwards leaner, seeing Huckabee getting slaughtered 60-35 against JRE was awesome to see!

[EV_Ares]

9. Certainly good news. This guy is such a wacko, sort of scary, you

never know who can get elected these days.

[readmoreoften]

11. Well, heck. Go Edwards. /nt

[Strelnikov_]

12. Go Huckabee n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

18. Absolutely!!!

Go Mike!

[Apollo11]

13. Wait till everyone gets to learn about Huckabee's beliefs regarding marriage.

Huckabee is on the record supporting the position that married women should always obey their husbands.

[CTyankee]

16. "graciously submit" was his phrase. A match up with him could be fun to watch.

And Huck will sink like a stone once he is asked if he approves of contraceptives, or teaching evolution vs. creationism in public schools. Any repuke with half a brain who "overlooks" those items in the general campaign signals serious cognitive disorders...

[LiberalArkie]

15. No Republican wants to be in charge of the what's coming down in a few years.

[Colobo]

17. That's now. Wait until September. We would still beat him

but not by much. Fundies would back him for real.