Public Policy Polling found Mike Huckabee winning 30 percent of GOP primary voters in Iowa. Huckabee up in another Iowa poll

Another poll shows former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with an early leg up against his Republican rivals in next year’s Iowa caucuses.

The survey from Democratic-allied Public Policy Polling found Huckabee winning 30 percent of GOP primary voters in the Hawkeye State. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney garnered 18 percent of respondents, followed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 15 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 13 percent.


A number of state and national polls suggest an early lead for Huckabee, most recently a GOP survey that gave him a more narrow edge over Romney in Iowa. And a national Gallup survey released Monday that measured the likely GOP field’s name recognition and favorability found that Huckabee is the best known of 13 possible candidates.

According to the PPP poll, almost a third of voters are undecided about who would be their second choice, pointing to a wide-open race if the first-in-the-nation caucus contest yields the usual multiple rounds of voting.

Large proportions of Iowa Republicans still don’t know enough to form opinions about candidates like Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum and John Thune.

The automated survey had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.