New Hampshire: Giuliani Catches Romney in CNN Poll

CNN’s Political Ticker has a couple of interesting posts up today about the (state of the) campaigns for president:

Giuliani Catches Romney in New Hampshire: “It’s a dead heat in New Hampshire, according to our new poll of likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters.” All in all, 25% of Republican primary voters say they’ll vote for Governor Romney, against 24% for Giuliani. This is, as far as I’m concerned, quite surprising, at least at this point in time: Romney had a constant lead in this early and important primary state. I considered it to be very difficult for others to catch up with Romney and especially in a relatively short amount of time.

If Giuliani and Romney are thinking that the fight for NH will be a two-persons battle, they may very well be mistake: John McCain will - from now on - advertise in the granite state. His first ads will hit the airwaves today. The ad offensive comes at a time that McCain is already rising in the polls: 18% of those asked say they’ll vote for the Senator from Arizona.

One day after news broke that Barack Obama is trailing Clinton by 23% in most recently conducted poll, the Senator from Illionois has asked his supporters to “step up their efforts in New Hampshire.” This ‘appeal’ contradicts his earlier statement that he doesn’t “worry about polls.”
The people at CNN also wonder why it is that Governor Romney isn’t “catching on” in South Carolina. He’s spent bigtime in that state, but receives only little support. One explanation: (a lack of) name recognition. Another explanation: perhaps they simply don’t like Romney.

For more, I’d say visit CNN’s Political Ticker: I visit it every single day, a couple times.