Huckabee 29% new GOP leader in Iowa Poll (Mitt 24, Rudy 13, McCain tied with Paul)

Mike Huckabee has leaped ahead of Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney in Iowa, seizing first place in a new Des Moines Register poll of likely Republican caucus participants.

Huckabee wins the support of 29 percent of Iowans who say they definitely or probably will attend the Republican Party's caucuses on Jan. 3. That's a gain of 17 percentage points since the last Iowa Poll was taken in early October, when Huckabee trailed both Romney and Fred Thompson.

Other poll findings indicate that the former Arkansas governor is making the most of a low-budget campaign by tapping into the support of Iowa's social conservatives.

Romney, who has invested more time and money campaigning in the state than any other GOP candidate, remains in the thick of the Iowa race with the backing of 24 percent of likely caucusgoers. But that's a drop of 5 points since October for the former Massachusetts governor.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071201/NEWS09/71130037/-1/caucus

I think this will hurt Guiliani and Romeny the most...McCain has his footing back...and I think "moderate" Republicans(a relative term of course) and indies may switch to McCain

is it just me, or does that name sound like it should belong to a Sinclair Lewis character?

Come'n lookie this har paper, GeorgieMae.. didn' I tell ye that sweet Jesus lovin' boy'd git right outn fronta them Yanks and cityslicker fellers?? Mark mah wurds, baby Jesus dun laid hands on that'n, he did..be right nigh on gospel hour soon too now..

They know this election is a dead loss. They're going to sit back, let us win, hope we botch it, and start working to take Congress back in 2010.

"Second place isn't that bad." LOL! The reality is...if Mittens doesn't win in Iowa, he's in really deep shit going into NH. Rudy's loving it as he's counting on Huckleberry to cripple Mittens, knowing full well that Huckleberry doesn't have the $ to compete on Feb 5.

Personally, I would LOVE to face Mittens in the GE but not bad enough to actually root for him in Iowa...

but not smart enought to keep asswipes like hucklefuck from shoving his nose up his butt to get votes off the fundamentalist cretins in iowa!!!!

But the Huck is Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC has almost 17 million members, second only to the Catholics. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore were all SBC when they were elected to office as Democrats.

If the Huck gets the nomination it could be a tighter race than hoped.