PPP: Huckabee and Palin leading in Missouri

[Tender Branson]

27% Huckabee
25% Palin
15% Gingrich
14% Romney
  5% Paul
  3% Pawlenty
  2% Thune
  1% Daniels
  9% Others/Undecided

Favorables among GOP voters:

76-13 Huckabee
72-20 Palin
57-25 Gingrich
47-27 Romney

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_MO_1206.pdf

[Tender Branson]

Romney does rather badly in the state compared with his result there in 2008.

Must be some of his 2008 voters crossing over to Gingrich or Palin or else, or just people who didn't vote in 2008.

[Tender Branson]

This is great news....for Mitt Romney.

10% in North Carolina
12% in Montana
14% in Missouri

Can any Romney hack try to pass these numbers off as good news.  He'd be ok if he was cleaning up in the 2008 Obama states but he's not.  He's only doing so in some, but not all, of the 2008 Obama blue states.

Good showing by Palin in a state that borders the Huckabee strongholds of Iowa and Arkansas.  Iowa probably is not too different from Missouri right now.

I agree with this. Romney seems not to be in good shape in most of the states polled so far.

I guess Romney doesn't really have a chance in Iowa and will focus on NH instead. He won't have a chance in SC either and will focus on Nevada.

Besides, if Huckabee decides not to run, Palin will get a boost from his voters, because in the national PPP poll that was out a couple days ago, Palin was the clear 2nd choice of the Huckabee voters. That should help her immensely in Iowa, where Huckabee was strong in 2008 and expecially in South Carolina where I could see her in a tight battle with Gingrich.