“Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is surging in a new poll, while U.S. Sen. John McCain, Ariz., has virtually collapsed. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, Ill., shows surprising crossover support.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also saw a significant drop in the poll of likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers, which was conducted by University of Iowa political science professor David Redlawsk.
Romney topped the poll with 26.9 percent of respondents saying they intend to support him at the January caucus. He is up 10 points since the last University of Iowa poll in late March. Giuliani was well behind at 11.3 percent, down 9 points, while McCain fell an astonishing 17.7 points to 3.2 percent, putting him in sixth place.
Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, Tenn., was at 6.5 percent, while U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, Kans., and U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, Col., each got 4.2 percent.
Perhaps most surprising of all, Obama actually finished third as the preferred general election candidate of registered Republicans, at 6.7 percent, behind Romney (21.8 percent), and Giuliani (10 percent), but ahead of Thompson (5.2 percent) and McCain (1.8 percent).”
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