Clinton, Thompson lead in new poll

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., top a new poll of S.C. voters in advance of the state’s 2008 Democratic and Republican presidential primaries.
The poll, from Public Policy Polling, shows Clinton with 36 percent of Democrats’ support, followed closely by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois with 33 percent. Given the poll’s margin of error of 4.7 percentage points, the difference between the two is not significant.
Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina was a distant third at 12 percent. U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson were both at 3 percent. No other candidate had more than 1 percent in the poll, released Wednesday.
On the Republican side, Thompson, not yet an official candidate, had the support of 22 percent of S.C. GOP voters, followed by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at 18 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was third with 17 percent and U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona was fourth with 11 percent.
The Republican results have a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
Here are the full results of both polls.
REPUBLICANS
Thompson — 22 percent
Giuliani — 18 percent
Romney — 17 percent
McCain —  11 percent
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — 7 percent
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas — 3 percent
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas — 2 percent
U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California — 1 percent
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado — 1 percent
Undecided— 18 percent
DEMOCRATS
Clinton — 36 percent
Obama —  33 percent
Edwards — 12 percent
Biden — 3 percent
Richardson — 3 percent
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio — 1 percent
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut — 0 percent
Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska — 0 percent
Undecided —12 percent

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[Ryan]

Good news for Hillary!