N.H. poll: Both races close
Today's Boston Globe carries news of one more UNH poll of likely voters in New Hampshire. On the Democratic side, the numbers are:
- Barack Obama -- 30 percent
- Hillary Clinton -- 28 percent
- John Edwards -- 14 percent
- Bill Richardson -- 7 percent
- Dennis Kucinich -- 4 percent
- Joe Biden -- 3 percent.
On the Republican side, the numbers are:
- Mitt Romney -- 28 percent
- John McCain -- 25 percent
- Rudy Giuliani -- 14 percent
- Mike Huckabee -- 10 percent
- Ron Paul -- 8 percent
- Fred Thompson -- 3 percent.
The margin of error for both samples is +/- 4.9 percentage points. Full results here (pdf).
This is the second UNH poll released in the past week. Putting the results side by side, as we did after a similar polling pair a month ago, suggests this snapshot of the race just before Christmas:
- Clinton: 28-38 percent vs. 35-36 percent in mid-November
- Obama: 26-30 vs. 21-22
- Edwards: 14-14 vs. 13-15
- Richardson: 7-8 vs. 10-12
- Romney: 28-34 vs. 32-33 in mid-November
- McCain: 22-25 vs. 17-18
- Giuliani: 14-16 vs. 16-20
- Huckabee: 10-10 vs. 5-5
- Paul: 5-8 vs. 7-8