28Mar07 ~ Today-Gallup National Poll

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March 27, 2007

DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton 35 percent
Barack Obama 22 percent
Al Gore 17 percent
John Edwards 14 percent
(all other candidates below 5 percent)

REPUBLICANS
Rudy Giuliani 31 percent
John McCain 22 percent
Fred Thompson 12 percent
Newt Gingrich 8 percent
(all other candidates below 5 percent)


The USA Today-Gallup national poll of 1,007 adults was conducted March 23-25 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The Democratic sample of 493 Democrats and those who lean Democratic and the Republican sample of 429 Republicans and those who lean Republican each had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

OF INTEREST: Giuliani's 24-percentage point lead in this poll in early March was down to 9 percentage points. Edwards, who announced recently he would stay in the race despite his wife's cancer, bumped up slightly from 9 percent in early March to 14 percent. Fred Thompson, the politician/actor who is considering a bid, was third among Republicans.