TRENTON (AP) … Recent strong showings by Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are shaking up New Jersey's Feb. 5 presidential primary, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani had huge
leads in New Jersey's presidential primary polls. But the latest Monmouth
University/Gannett New Jersey Poll finds things changed after Obama won his
party's Iowa caucuses and McCain won the Republican primary in New
Hampshire.
Clinton still leads in New Jersey but has seen her advantage shrink from
19 to 12 points, while McCain is now about even with Giuliani, the poll
found.
Giuliani, a former New York mayor, held a 32-point lead over McCain, an
Arizona senator, in October. But McCain now has support from 29 percent of
likely Republican voters, compared to 25 percent for Giuliani, the poll
found.
Among other Republicans, Mike Huckabee has 11 percent, Mitt Romney 9
percent and Ron Paul and Fred Thompson 5 percent each.
""It appears that Mayor Giuliani's strategy to ignore the early states
may have taken him off the radar screen here,'' said Patrick Murray, the
Monmouth University Polling Institute director. ""Many of his supporters
have now moved to Sen. McCain, which, ideologically, is probably an easy
switch for New Jersey Republicans.''
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Poll: McCain erases Giuliani lead in NJ; Obama gains
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