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California Republican Primary
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | McCain | Romney | Huckabee | Paul | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Results | -- | -- | 42.3 | 34.6 | 11.6 | 4.3 | McCain +7.7 |
| RCP Average | 01/31 - 02/04 | -- | 37.3 | 37.0 | 10.3 | 4.5 | McCain +0.3 |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 02/03 - 02/04 | 833 LV | 33 | 40 | 12 | 3 | Romney +7.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 02/03 - 02/04 | 556 LV | 39 | 38 | 11 | 5 | McCain +1.0 |
| Rasmussen | 02/02 - 02/02 | 693 LV | 38 | 38 | 10 | 6 | Tie |
| Suffolk | 01/31 - 02/01 | 500 LV | 39 | 32 | 8 | 4 | McCain +7.0 |
Recent Commentary & News Stories
- Searching for the Next Vice President - Marc Ambinder, National Journal
- Facts Better for GOP in '08 than '06 - Michael Barone, US News & WR
- The Flip-Flop Brothers: Who Will Suffer? - John Dickerson, Slate
- Obama's Class A Flip-Flop Won't Hurt Him - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
- How to Hit Obama - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
See All California Republican Primary Commentary & News Stories
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | McCain | Romney | Huckabee | Paul | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Results | -- | -- | 42.3 | 34.6 | 11.6 | 4.3 | McCain +7.7 |
| RCP Average | 01/31 - 02/04 | -- | 37.3 | 37.0 | 10.3 | 4.5 | McCain +0.3 |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 02/03 - 02/04 | 833 LV | 33 | 40 | 12 | 3 | Romney +7.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 02/03 - 02/04 | 556 LV | 39 | 38 | 11 | 5 | McCain +1.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 02/02 - 02/03 | 517 LV | 39 | 36 | 9 | 7 | McCain +3.0 |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 02/01 - 02/03 | 915 LV | 32 | 40 | 12 | 5 | Romney +8.0 |
| Rasmussen | 02/02 - 02/02 | 693 LV | 38 | 38 | 10 | 6 | Tie |
| Reuters/CSpan/Zogby | 01/31 - 02/02 | 1185 LV | 34 | 37 | 12 | 5 | Romney +3.0 |
| Suffolk | 01/31 - 02/01 | 500 LV | 39 | 32 | 8 | 4 | McCain +7.0 |
| Mason-Dixon | 01/30 - 02/01 | 400 LV | 40 | 31 | 13 | 3 | McCain +9.0 |
| Field | 01/25 - 02/01 | 481 LV | 32 | 24 | 13 | 10 | McCain +8.0 |
| Rasmussen | 01/29 - 01/29 | 652 LV | 32 | 28 | 11 | 5 | McCain +4.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 01/27 - 01/27 | 506 LV | 37 | 25 | 14 | 4 | McCain +12.0 |
| Politico/CNN/LAT | 01/23 - 01/27 | 437 LV | 39 | 26 | 11 | -- | McCain +13.0 |
| USA Today/Gallup | 01/23 - 01/26 | 552 LV | 36 | 31 | 10 | 4 | McCain +5.0 |
| Field | 01/14 - 01/20 | 377 LV | 22 | 18 | 11 | 7 | McCain +4.0 |
| PPIC | 01/13 - 01/20 | 348 LV | 29 | 17 | 10 | 5 | McCain +12.0 |
| Rasmussen | 01/14 - 01/14 | 471 LV | 24 | 17 | 13 | 6 | McCain +7.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 01/11 - 01/13 | 509 LV | 33 | 13 | 14 | 4 | McCain +19.0 |
| Politico/CNN/LAT | 01/11 - 01/13 | 255 LV | 20 | 16 | 13 | 8 | McCain +4.0 |
| Field | 12/10 - 12/17 | 322 LV | 12 | 15 | 17 | 3 | Huckabee +2.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 12/14 - 12/16 | 497 LV | 14 | 16 | 20 | -- | Huckabee +4.0 |
| PPIC | 11/27 - 12/04 | 346 LV | 11 | 15 | 12 | -- | Romney +3.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 11/30 - 12/03 | 505 LV | 18 | 14 | 14 | -- | McCain +4.0 |
| Field | 10/11 - 10/21 | 315 LV | 12 | 13 | 4 | -- | Romney +1.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 10/12 - 10/14 | 519 LV | 13 | 14 | -- | -- | Romney +1.0 |
| San Jose State | 10/01 - 10/08 | RV | 17 | 11 | -- | -- | McCain +6.0 |
| PPIC | 09/04 - 09/11 | 353 LV | 15 | 16 | -- | -- | Romney +1.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 09/07 - 09/09 | 509 LV | 18 | 14 | -- | -- | McCain +4.0 |
| Field | 08/03 - 08/12 | 348 LV | 9 | 14 | -- | -- | Romney +5.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 08/02 - 08/05 | 520 LV | 16 | 10 | -- | -- | McCain +6.0 |
| American Res. Group | 07/30 - 08/02 | 600 LV | 7 | 18 | -- | -- | Romney +11.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 06/29 - 07/01 | 499 LV | 19 | 9 | -- | -- | McCain +10.0 |
| SPRI | 06/18 - 06/22 | 645 LV | 14 | 5 | -- | -- | McCain +9.0 |
| Datamar* | 06/06 - 06/11 | 572 LV | 5 | 32 | -- | -- | Romney +27.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 06/01 - 06/03 | 543 LV | 21 | 11 | -- | -- | McCain +10.0 |
| American Res. Group | 05/04 - 05/08 | 600 LV | 24 | 11 | -- | -- | McCain +13.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 05/04 - 05/06 | 456 LV | 21 | 12 | -- | -- | McCain +9.0 |
| Mellman Group (D) | 04/09 - 04/12 | 400 LV | 21 | 9 | -- | -- | McCain +12.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 03/30 - 04/01 | 522 LV | 24 | 7 | -- | -- | McCain +17.0 |
| PPIC | 03/13 - 03/20 | 374 LV | 19 | 7 | -- | -- | McCain +12.0 |
| SurveyUSA | 03/03 - 03/05 | 562 LV | 23 | 8 | -- | -- | McCain +15.0 |
| Datamar | 02/09 - 02/13 | 851 LV | 17 | 11 | -- | -- | McCain +6.0 |
| American Res. Group | 01/11 - 01/17 | 600 LV | 18 | 3 | -- | -- | McCain +15.0 |
All Commentary & News Stories
- Searching for the Next Vice President - Marc Ambinder, National Journal
- Facts Better for GOP in '08 than '06 - Michael Barone, US News & WR
- The Flip-Flop Brothers: Who Will Suffer? - John Dickerson, Slate
- Obama's Class A Flip-Flop Won't Hurt Him - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
- How to Hit Obama - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
- McCain Closes the Cash Gap - Jeanne Cummings, The Politico
- Can McCain Save the GOP Brand? - Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
- A Family-Friendly Idea for McCain - Ramesh Ponnuru, Weekly Standard
- Obama Should Keep Gates at Defense - Joe Klein, Time
- VP Choice Isn't Always About Balance - David Shribman, Pitt Post-Gazette
- Why Did Obama Rattle the Jerusalem Issue? - Frida Ghitis, Miami Herald
- Where are Michelle's Feminist Defenders? - Mary Curtis, Washington Post
- Obama's Ever-Changing "Change" - New York Post
- McCain and Bush, Oil Opportunists - Los Angeles Times
- Obama-Gore? - Washington Times
- Obama's Right About Families and Education - James Klurfeld, Newsday
- The Obama-McCain Authenticity Contest - Liz Sidoti, Associated Press
- Obama: A False Moderate? - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
- Countering Race with Class - David Sirota, San Francisco Chronicle
- Obama's Balancing Act on Free Trade - Brian Montopoli, CBS News
- U.S. Shouldn't Alienate Canada on NAFTA - Sen. John McCain, Detroit FP
- U.S. Must Increase Energy Research Funding - Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
- McCain Struggles to Break Free of Bush - M. Reston & B. Drogin, LA Times
- Obama Should Keep Gates at Defense - Joe Klein, Time
- Obama's Flip-Flop Won't Hurt Bid - Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
- The Two Obamas - David Brooks, New York Times
- After Shift, Obama Poised For Huge Cash Edge - Rick Klein, ABC News
- McCain's Oil Epiphany - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
- Drilling: A Cynical Political Calculation - Paul Krugman, New York Times
- The Problem with Obama's New Politics - Mona Charen, National Review
- Why 9/11 Won't Defeat Obama - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
- Social Security is Not a Welfare Program - Larry Lindsey, Wall St. Journal
- The Party of Lincoln Was Left Behind on Civil Rights - John Avlon, RCP
- McCain is No Maverick - Eric Alterman & George Zornick, The Nation
- Obama Should Swap Chicago for Phoenix - Tristram Hunt, Times of London
- All Eyes on New Hampshire -- Again - E. J. Dionne, Seattle Times
- Will There Be Coattails in November? - Reid Wilson, RealClearPolitics
- Public Funding on the Ropes - New York Times
- Obama Flips, Blames It on McCain - Wall Street Journal
- Yes, Drill - but Research, Too - Dallas Morning News
- McCain Scores w/Drilling Proposal - Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Fox News
- Dem Governors Unite Behind Obama - Napolitano & O'Malley, The Politico
- Does Obama Know What He's Talking About? - Scott Johnson, Power Line
- A Feminist Would Be Insane to Vote for McCain - Katha Pollitt, The Nation
- Obama's Best Veep Choice is Gone - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
- McCain's Terror Errors - Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times
- Questions from an Obamacon - Larry Hunter, The New Republic
- Obama's Chivalry Gap - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
- Obama to Break Pledge, Opt Out of Public Financing - Jake Tapper, ABC News
- Democrats, Not So Fast - Ross Baker, USA Today
- The Not So Simple Politics of Iraq - Marie Cocco, Indianapolis Star
- McCain Should Give Up on Evangelical Support - Froma Harrop, Prov Journal
- Can Obama Defend America? - Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
- Promises Aren't Plans, Senator Obama - Ralph Peters, New York Post
- It's Not What They've Done, But What They'll Learn - John Ibbitson, G & M
- Obama and McCain Spout Economic Nonsense - Karl Rove, Wall St. Journal
- Oil Lessons - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
- Obama's Promise of Change - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
- Dismantling the Myth of McCain - David Moberg, In These Times
- The '08 Battles for the U.S. Senate - Larry Sabato, UVA Center for Politics
- What Obama Meant By 'Undivided' Jerusalem - Joel Mowbray, RCP
- The Obama Two-Step - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
- Obama, The Post-Post 9/11 Candidate - Philip Klein, American Spectator
- Using 9/11 For Partisan Gain - Michael Scherer, Time
- Obama: NAFTA Not So Bad After All - Nina Easton, Fortune
- McCain and Obama's Gas Fight - Amy Walter, National Journal
- Obama and 9/11 - Max Boot, Commentary Magazine
- McCain's Message Problem - John Dickerson, Slate
- Michelle Obama's Subtle Makeover - M. Powell & J. Kantor, New York Times
- Calling All Fathers - Kathleen Parker, RealClearPolitics
- McCain Attacks Gitmo Ruling at His Peril - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
- Sweeping and Wrong Conclusions - Peter Wehner, National Review Online
- Tim Pawlenty's Proletarian Chic - Noam Scheiber, The New Republic
- Time For Obama to Slaughter Some Sacred Cows - Blake Dvorak, RCP
- A McCain-Lieberman Ticket? - Walter Shapiro, Salon
- The Problem with Obama's Father's Day Speech - Bruce Walker, Am. Thinker
- Iraq's Foreign Minister Has a Chat with Obama - Washington Post
- The Energy Tide is Turning - Investor's Business Daily
- Bush Will Seek to Drop a Drilling Ban - Sheryl Stolberg, New York Times
- Envisioning McCain's Supreme Court - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
- Why Hasn't Obama Pulled Further Ahead? - Jake Tapper, ABC News
- Can Georgia Be Obama's Ohio? - Jay Newton-Small, Time
- George Will's Weak Case Against McCain - Mark Levin, NRO
- When Obama is Off the Teleprompter - John Podhoretz, Contentions
- Full Metal McCain - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
- Where the Electorate Stands - Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic
- Why McCain Wouldn't Be Bush III - Andrew Romano, Newsweek
- It's Obama's Race to Lose - Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
- McCain's Desperate Debate Gambit - Paul Waldman, American Prospect
- George Will is Wrong About Boumediene - Ed Whelan, NRO
- Obama as a Great Hope, No Matter His Color - Les Payne, Newsday
- Obama and the Cheney Option - Steve Kornacki, New York Observer
- Has Affirmative Action Run Its Course? - Jonathan Kaufman, WSJ
- Obama Raises Hopes for Fatherhood - E. J. Dionne, Houston Chronicle
- McCain's Posturing on Guantanamo - George Will, Washington Post
- The Unraveling of Joe Lieberman - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
- Democratic Unity Still Out of Reach - Matthew Dallek, The Politico
- Independent Voters To Be Key in Nov. - Balz & Cohen, Washington Post
- What Obama Can Learn from Gates - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
- McCain Aims to Avoid the Dole-Drums - Holly Bailey, Newsweek