New Hampshire Poll: Clinton Fizzling, Romney Sizzling

Published: December 12, 2007, 4:03 pm

Tags: elections, mitt romney, bill clinton, mike huckabee, newsweek blogitics, barack obama, hillary clinton, 2008 elections, polls, democrats, republicans, politics

Forget all the talk about this being an election year in which the leading candidates in each party were almost certain to get the nomination. It’s wild-card...after wild-card…with at least one campaign showing signs of extreme concern. The news for the Demmies: Hillary Clinton’s lead has evaporated in New Hampshire (she is a contender but now is on the ropes). The news for the Republicans: former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney still has a solid lead (so he will remain very much a contender). It can be seen in this poll: Barack Obama has chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in New Hampshire, and the two Democratic presidential hopefuls are now locked in a statistical tie less than one month before the first-in-the-nation primary, a CNN/WMUR Poll released Wednesday shows. Clinton has dropped 5 percentage points since the CNN/WMUR November survey, while Obama has gained 8 percentage points, according to the poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire

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