The latest Iowa
poll finds support for Edwards and Richardson among Iowa
Democrats has slipped since a similar poll in August,
allowing Clinton and Obama to tighten their grips on
first and second place. Romney has built on his lead
among Iowa Republicans, while Huckabee has surged into
a virtual tie with Giuliani for second place.
DEMOCRATS:
-Hillary
Rodham Clinton, 29%
-Barack
Obama, 27%
-John
Edwards, 20%
-Bill
Richardson, 7%
-Joe
Biden, 5%
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REPUBLICANS:
-Mitt
Romney, 36%
-Rudy
Giuliani, 13%
-Mike
Huckabee, 13%
-Fred
Thompson, 11%
-John
McCain, 6%
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The University of
Iowa Hawkeye poll was conducted by telephone October
17-24 among a random sample of 285 likely Republican
caucus-goers and 306 likely Democratic caucus-goers.
The results from the poll have a margin of sampling
error of plus or minus 5.8 percentage points for Republicans
and plus or minus 5.5 percentage points for Democrats.