The Results

Well, 1.1% of you think Fred Thompson will be the Republican nominee and 0.4% went for Duncan Hunter. Both were a point or two higher on our poll before they dropped out of the race.

A little over half of you think it'll be John McCain and you may be right. It sure didn't look that way a month or two ago, and you still have a lot of prominent right-wingers saying he's "not acceptable." Actually, I think most folks in either party will find anyone who they think can win acceptable.

When I put this up a week ago, I said that I thought four of them had a shot at it. I meant Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain and Romney, of course. Just since then, everyone in the press seems to have given up on Giuliani, and Huckabee ain't looking so possible, either. I don't know which of the other guys is going to make it but I'm thinking Romney at the moment. Maybe I'll put this poll up again in a month and see what kind of results we get then.

In the meantime, here are the final numbers. I'll have the Democratic version up in a day or so.

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