Mitt Romney has re-asserted his lead in the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows that Romney holds a nine-point advantage over Rudy Giuliani in the Granite State. That’s up from a three-point lead in September.

The New Hampshire poll also contains good news for John McCain and Mike Huckabee, each of whom has gained four percentage points since mid-September. McCain and Huckabee have also been gaining ground in the daily Presidential Tracking Poll which measures support on a nationwide basis. The big loser in New Hampshire this month is Fred Thompson who lost two-thirds of the support he enjoyed shortly after entering the race.

Romney now has support from 28% of Likely Primary Voters while Giuliani earns the vote from 19%. McCain at 16% and Huckabee at 10% are the only other Republicans in double digits. Thompson attracts just 6% of the vote and is trailed by Tom Tancredo (3%), Ron Paul (2%), and Duncan Hunter (2%). Fourteen percent (14%) remain undecided.

Romney is also ahead in Iowa where Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee are in a virtual tie for second. In Iowa, six-out—ten voters said they might change their mind before the caucus and vote for someone else. The current New Hampshire poll finds that roughly half of the potential voters for this first-in-the-nation primary are open to changing their mind.

Giuliani is viewed favorably by 77% of Likely Primary voters, Romney by 75%. Positive reviews for McCain come from 69% while only 51% say the same about Thompson. Forty-five percent (45%) have a positive impression of Huckabee who remains an unknown to 19% of the state’s voters.

Thompson has accomplished something once thought impossible—he now has higher negative ratings among Republican Primary Voters than McCain. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of those likely to vote in New Hampshire’s primary have an unfavorable opinion of the former Tennessee Senator.

Fifty-five percent (55%) of the state’s GOP Primary Voters say that Republicans are likely to win the White House in 2008.

Sixty-five percent (65%) believe U.S. troops should remain in Iraq until the mission is complete.

Forty-six percent (46%) say the nation’s best days are still to come. Thirty-six percent (36%) say they have come and gone.

Nationally, the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination is wide open and getting more competitive by the day.

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