FACTBOX-McCain gains in presidential polls
(Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, who got a boost from his victory in the New Hampshire primary, has gained ground in new polls released on Sunday.
Here are some results.
-- A nationwide New York Times/CBS News poll showed 33 percent of Republican primary voters backed McCain, an Arizona senator, as their choice, up from just 7 percent a month ago. In second place with 18 percent was former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has focused on later and larger primary contests, was the choice of 10 percent of Republican voters, down from 22 percent last month.
Support for other Republican candidates was in single digits.
Among Democratic primary voters nationally, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York remains the favorite of 42 percent, compared with 27 percent backing Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois -- essentially unchanged since December. John Edwards, former North Carolina senator, remains in third place with 11 percent. The percentage of Democrats who say Obama would be the strongest candidate against the Republicans has more than doubled in a month, to 35 percent, from 14 percent in December.
The telephone poll of 1,061 registered voters was conducted January 9-12 and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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A nationwide ABC News/Washington Post poll showed McCain leads with 28 percent support among likely Republican primary voters, more than double his 12 percent of a month ago. Huckabee and Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, are little changed, at 20 percent and 19 percent respectively. Giuliani lost 10 points, dropping to 15 percent support.
Among Democratic likely voters, Obama's gained 14 points and Clinton lost 11 since the last ABC/Post poll, completed December 9. John Edwards was flat at 11 percent support. Clinton still leads among women, but now by 11 points, versus a vast 39 points last month. Obama now leads nationally among men, 9 points ahead of Clinton.
The ABC News/Washington Post telephone poll of 1,130 adults was conducted January 9-12 and has a 3-point error margin.
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A McClatchy-MSNBC poll in Michigan, where Republicans vote in a primary contest on Tuesday, has Romney leading McCain, 30 percent to 22 percent and Huckabee in third place with 17 percent support. Romney led McCain by 2 to 1 among voters who said the economy and jobs were their top concern. McCain led among voters who said terrorism and security were their top concern. Evangelical Christians represented 46 of the likely primary vote in the poll. Huckabee got 31 percent of their support while Romney got 23 percent.
The Mason-Dixon telephone poll of 400 likely Republican primary voters in Michigan was conducted January 9-11. The margin of error was plus or minus 5 percentage points.
(Source: The New York Times, ABCNews.com, McClatchy Newspapers)
(Compiled by JoAnne Allen; Editing by Eric Walsh)
