Here Are The Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #13077

Geography Surveyed: South Carolina
Data Collected: 12/07/2007 - 12/09/2007
Release Date: 12/10/2007 10:35 AM ET
Sponsors: WCSC-TV Charleston, WSPA-TV Greenville

South Carolina GOP Primary: Huckabee Vaults from 5th Place to 1st -- In a South Carolina Republican Primary for President of the United States today, 12/10/07, 41 days to the vote, Mike Huckabee finishes first, 11 points atop Mitt Romney, who is tied with Fred Thompson for 2nd. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released 1 month ago, Huckabee has leapfrogged John McCain, who is down from 14% to 10%; Rudolph Giuliani, who is down from 26% to 13%, and Romney and Thompson, who are flat. SurveyUSA research conducted exclusively for WCSC-TV Charleston and WSPA-TV Greenville. Upstate, in the past month: Huckabee gained 17 points, Thompson gained 6, Giuliani lost 13, Romney and McCain lost 6. In the Midlands, in the past month: Huckabee gained 23 points, Romney gained 3, Giuliani lost 12, McCain lost 8, Thompson lost 3. In the Low Country: Huckabee gained 16, Giuliani lost 16, McCain, Romney and Thompson were flat. 27% of SC GOP voters name Immigration as the issue the next President should focus on ahead of all others. On Immigration, SurveyUSA's SC month-on-month tracking graph is a microcosm of the entire race: Thompson is flat. Romney is flat. McCain is flat. Giuliani is down 9. Huckabee is up 16.

Filtering: 2,200 South Carolina adults were interviewed by SurveyUSA 12/07/07 through 12/09/07. Of them, 1,877 were registered to vote. Of them, 587 were identified by SurveyUSA as being likely to vote in the 01/19/08 South Carolina Republican Primary. As always, click the Triangle T to see SurveyUSA's tracking graphs with interactive pull-down windows -- a SurveyUSA exclusive.