NPR: Weekend Does Little to Clarify Races in Iowa

Weekend Does Little to Clarify Races in Iowa

Well, that weekend didn't do much to clear up the situation in Iowa.

After more scrambling around the state by the candidates, NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the races look tighter than ever. Most of the campaigns are aiming for the undecided caucus-goer, which some polls put as high as one in five.

On the Republican side, it appears that Mitt Romney's negative ads about Mike Huckabee have brought him back to the pack, after a surge when he appeared to be pulling away. A new Mason-Dixon poll shows Romney ahead 27 percent to 23 percent (but only 400 likely caucus goers, margin of error +/- five percent). A Zogby poll (934 likely caucus goers, +/- 3.3 percent) shows Huckabee with a one-point lead, 29 to 28 percent.

Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Sen. Hillary Clinton spent the weekend emphasizing her experience again, and also telling NBC's Tim Russert that her husband wouldn't be a part of any national security council meetings in her administration. The Zogby poll shows her with a small lead over Sen. Barack Obama at 31 to 27 percent. John Edwards sits at 24 percent. But the Edwards people are stressing the Mason-Dixon poll, which shows their guy with a one-point lead over Clinton and two over Obama: 24 to 23 to 22.

8:49 AM ET | 12-31-2007 | permalink

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