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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (20493)	6/12/2007 12:30:03 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Law Order' star Thompson surges in US presidential survey Jun 12 08:52 AM US/Eastern Fred Thompson, a former senator and star of the TV police drama "Law Order", surged into second place behind Rudy Giuliani in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in a new poll released Tuesday. The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll also singled out Senator Barack Obama as the most electable Democrat, even though Democratic voters say they prefer Senator Hillary Clinton by a wide margin. In a field of nine candidates vying for the Republican 2008 nomination, Thompson favored by 21 percent of Republican voters, compared to 27 percent for former New York mayor Giuliani, the poll showed. That put Thompson, who has yet to formally declare he is in the race, well ahead of Senator John McCain, with 12 percent, and ex-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, at 10 percent, in the poll. When the poll stripped out all but the four leaders as possible choices, Giuliani still led with 32 percent, Thompson drew 28 percent support, McCain was at 17 percent and Romney at 14 percent, with the rest of the voters undecided. Given the poll's margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points, those figures put Giuliani and Thompson in a statistical tie. The poll noted that Thompson's steadily edging closer to the race -- he has been making political speeches and giving broad hints that he could run -- has most hurt Romney, who has styled himself as the candidate of the most conservative Republican voters. Conservatives have moved to Thompson, weakening Romney's own support base. Meanwhile the poll confirmed Clinton's lead over Obama for the Democratic nomination, 33 percent to 22 percent. Out of a field of eight, undeclared candidate former vice president Al Gore came in third with 15 percent, and former senator John Edwards fell back to eight percent for fourth. When the top three declared candidates were put up against each other, Clinton stayed on top with 42 percent to Obama's 32 percent and Edwards took 20 percent. However, in matchups with possible Republican candidates for the November 2008 presidential vote, Obama showed sharply better than Clinton. Clinton was 10 percentage points down to Giuliani's 49 percent, and was also topped by McCain, 45-41 percent, and Romney, 43-41 percent, highlighting the widely discussed issue of her "electability" as a woman and the wife of a former president, Bill Clinton. In similar matchups, Obama tops Giuliani by five percent -- within the poll's margin of error; 12 points over McCain, and 16 points over Romney. The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll surveyed 1,183 adults around the country between June 7 and June 10.