Thompson Increases Lead Over Giuliani

Fred Thompson has increased his lead over Rudy Giuliani in this week’s Rasmussen Reports survey of likely Republican primary voters.  (Rasmussen actually called my home with this poll last week, but we only got it on voicemail so we did not participate.)  Although Fred drops to 27% from last week’s 28%, Rudy drops from 27% to 23%.  Thus, Fred is now up by 4% as opposed to last week’s 1% and the previous week’s tie with Rudy.  This definitely marks a trend.

Now we also have evidence that Fred is moving up in the General Election match-up, too.  While Rudy leads Barrack Hussein Obama by 3% – 44%-41% — Fred is coming up strong and only trails Obama by 2% — 43%-41%.  Not a bad position to be in without having even declared his candidacy.  It will be interesting to see the numbers of Fred vs. Hillary! once that match-up has been polled (especially since Hillary! has the highest number of voters who say they would never vote for her — 46% — and Fred has the lowest number who would never vote for him — 31%.