The Latest Gallup on 2008

Here are the results of the latest Gallup poll on 2008, with last month's results in parentheses:

Republicans
McCain 28 (26)
Giuliani 28 (28)
Rice 12 (13)
Gingrich 8 (7)
Romney 4 (5)
No Opinion 7 (7)

Seven other candidates scored 2% or less.

Democrats

Clinton 33 (31)
Obama 20 (19)
Gore 12 (9)
Edwards 8 (10)
Kerry 6 (7)
No Opinion 5 (6)

Seven other candidates scored 3% or less.

Interestingly, despite the massive media publicity Barack Obama has received over the last month or so, nearly half the Democrats taking part in the survey (47%) responded "no opinion" when asked to provide a favorable/unfavorable rating. More specifically, 33% of Democrats said they have never heard of Obama, and another 14% said the name sounded familiar but they didn't know enough to form an opinion.

On the other side, 69% of Republicans had "no opinion" of Mitt Romney.

In overall favorability, Rudy topped all '08 hopefuls at 77%. More importantly, and circling back to my post the other day about Rudy vs. McCain and the "likeability" factor, Giuliani scored a 92% favorable rating among Republicans. McCain favorable rating with Republicans is 63%.

Hillary's favorables are also worth a mention. She does well among Democrats (86%), but significantly less well with Independents (48%) and she gets the lowest rating of any Democrat in registering a crossover favorable rating from self-described Republicans (13%). Even John "Botched Joke" Kerry gets a 16% favorable rating among Republicans in this poll, and Al Gore gets 19%.

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