Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #13077

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.

If the Republican Primary for President of the United States were today, would you vote for ...(names rotated) Rudy Giuliani? Mike Huckabee? John McCain? Mitt Romney? Fred Thompson? Or some other Republican?

587 Likely Republican Primary Voters	All	Gender		Race		Party Affiliation			Ideology			Age				<50 / 50+		Region			Top Issue For Next President
Margin of Sampling Error: ± 4.1%		Male	Female	White	Black	Republic	Democrat	Independ	Conserva	Moderate	Liberal	18-34	35-49	50-64	65+	18-49	50+	Upstate	Midlands	Low Coun	Economy	Environm	Health C	Iraq	Terroris	Social S	Educatio	Immigrat
Giuliani	13%	13%	14%	13%	**	13%	**	11%	12%	19%	**	20%	14%	10%	13%	16%	11%	7%	16%	17%	16%	**	13%	13%	12%	23%	**	10%
Huckabee	30%	30%	30%	31%	**	30%	**	33%	33%	24%	**	22%	28%	37%	30%	26%	34%	31%	33%	27%	30%	**	27%	27%	37%	23%	**	30%
McCain	10%	11%	8%	10%	**	10%	**	5%	9%	11%	**	11%	7%	9%	13%	9%	11%	8%	8%	13%	5%	**	14%	15%	10%	17%	**	9%
Romney	19%	16%	23%	20%	**	20%	**	17%	19%	21%	**	15%	19%	19%	24%	18%	21%	20%	17%	21%	22%	**	20%	19%	16%	9%	**	23%
Thompson	18%	18%	19%	18%	**	19%	**	18%	20%	11%	**	26%	22%	16%	13%	23%	14%	23%	17%	15%	19%	**	20%	19%	18%	12%	**	21%
Other	6%	9%	3%	6%	**	5%	**	10%	4%	12%	**	4%	8%	7%	4%	7%	6%	7%	5%	6%	7%	**	4%	5%	3%	15%	**	6%
Undecided	3%	2%	4%	2%	**	2%	**	6%	3%	2%	**	2%	2%	3%	4%	2%	3%	4%	3%	1%	1%	**	2%	3%	4%	0%	**	1%
Total	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Composition of Likely Republican Primary Voters	100%	57%	43%	95%	3%	86%	2%	9%	71%	20%	1%	15%	30%	32%	24%	45%	55%	34%	34%	32%	17%	2%	11%	11%	18%	6%	3%	27%

** Too few respondents of this type were interviewed for this data to be meaningful.