A new Fox New South Carolina poll puts John McCain in first place with 25 percent of the vote. Mike Huckabee is second, with 18 percent, followed by Mitt Romney at 17 percent and Fred Thompson, who hails from neighboring Tennessee, at 9 percent.
While there is clearly no love lost between McCain and Romney, it might be in McCain's best interests to have Romney stick in the last through Super Tuesday. It appears that Huckabee and Romney are fighting over the social conservative vote, with Thompson pulling some of that away as well. That leaves McCain to reap the more secular and moderate vote. Take Romney out of the equation and the path to victory looks brighter for Huckabee, especially if he finishes a strong second or even third in Michigan.
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