Poll: McCain rising, Clinton steady
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans, Democrats nationally.
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Rasmussen Reports - The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) tied with former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson (R) in an Election 2008 match-up. Both candidates attract support from 45% of voters. Given a Clinton-Thompson match-up, 5% of voters say they&#39;d pull the lever for some other candidate and 4% are not sure.
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New York Sen. Hillary Clinton still  holds a 20-point lead over her rivals for the Democratic  presidential nomination but she and Republican front-runner  Rudy Giuliani are in a dead heat, according to an NBC News/Wall  Street Journal poll released on Wednesday.
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But it still helps for presidential candidates to be likable. Forty percent found Hillary Rodham Clinton likable, compared with 54 percent for Barack Obama, 45 percent for John McCain and 31 percent for Mitt Romney. Clinton's rating has not changed since the first AP-Yahoo News poll in November, while the others' have improved slightly.
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Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain were decidedly upbeat in separate appearances on Monday morning.
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Clinton and Obama in predicted dead heat, while Republican primary is called for McCain
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Hillary Rodham Clintonâs victory was a surprising show of strength after her loss in Iowa. John McCain reprised his 2000 primary win, beating Mitt Romney.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Republican Mitt Romney climbed into a tie with John McCain three days before a critical presidential primary in Florida, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
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Rasmussen Reports - Once again, the Rasmussen Reports national telephone poll of the Democratic Presidential nominating competition shows New York Senator Hillary Clinton with a solid lead. It&#39;s a bit bigger lead this week than last--12 points instead of eight--but the general dynamic of the race remains unchanged.
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Rasmussen Reports - For the third straight week, New York Senator Hillary Clinton enjoys 35% support among those likely to vote in a Democratic Presidential Primary. The stability of her support has become the defining feature of the Democratic Presidential competition. In fact, over the past three months, the former First Lady&#39;s support has stayed within three points of the 35% mark in every weekly Rasmussen Reports poll except one.
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Republican John McCain raised nearly $12 million in January. Propelled by victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina, he solidified his place as the leading candidate for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York holds a solid lead over her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, while the contest for the Republican nomination appears even more unsettled than it did when it began five months ago, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Rasmussen Reports - After weeks of turmoil and change, the race for the Republican Presidential nomination has stabilized.
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John McCain sought to keep his momentum going strong. Mitt Romney looked to keep his candidacy afloat. And Mike Huckabee simply wanted to keep defying expectations.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton won heated presidential nominating battles in separate contests in South Carolina and Nevada on Saturday, gaining strength in an chaotic White House race where no candidate has been able to sustain momentum.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain has opened a lead over rival Mitt Romney in the campaign for Michigan's Jan. 15 primary election, according to a poll released today.
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John McCain appears to be steamrolling his way to the Republican nomination; Mitt Romney can't seem to catch a break.