Herman Cain 20%
Newt Gingrich 19%
Mitt Romney 14%
Michele Bachmann 10%
Ron Paul 10%
Rick Perry 5%
Rick Santorum 4%
Jon Huntsman 2%
Gary Johnson 1%
The Council on American-Islamic Relations boasts that a "capacity crowd" turned out for its 14th annual fundraising banquet earlier this week. But there was at least one prominent no-show: congressman and former presidential candidate, Ron Paul.
Paul, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has become a darling of the Wahhabi lobby in Washington. But WND has learned that he turned down an invitation to speak at CAIR's confab in Washington at which a number of CAIR officials were slapped with a legal summons.
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If the 2008 Republican presidential primary were held today, whom would you support if the candidates are:
| Nov. 2007 | May 2007 | Feb. 2007 | |
| Rudy Giuliani | 30% | 28% | 28% |
| John McCain | 17% | 18% | 21% |
| Mitt Romney | 13% | 7% | 10% |
| Fred Thompson | 12% | 13% | n.a. |
| Mike Huckabee | 5% | 2% | 1% |
| Ron Paul | 2% | -- | 1% |
| Duncan Hunter | 1% | 2% | 1% |
| Tom Tancredo | -- | 1% | 1% |
| Newt Gingrich | n.a. | 8% | 11% |
| Tommy Thompson | n.a. | 3% | 1% |
| Sam Brownback | n.a. | 2% | 1% |
| Chuck Hagel | n.a. | 1% | -- |
| Other | n.a. | n.a. | 2% |
| Undecided | 20% | 15% | 22% |
Source: Marist College Institute for Public Opinion / WNBC
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 306 Republicans and Republican leaning independents, conducted from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2007. Margin of error is 5.5 per cent.