2008 Hopefuls

(Boston Globe) Sept. 28, 2007 Mitt Romney’s path to the Republican presidential nomination has been clear and unwavering: Focus on winning in Iowa and New Hampshire, and use that momentum in states where he is less well-known.

That strategy looked as if it was working: Polls showed Romney dominating the GOP field in the two states, where he has campaigned the most and has vastly outspent his rivals.

But a CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center released Wednesday showed that Romney had dropped 10 percentage points since mid-July, and that former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Arizona Senator John McCain were nipping at his heels. Other surveys this month have also shown the race narrowing.