[Daryn Kagan, Cnn Anchor:] We're going to look past Arizona and Michigan. What does the political landscape look like for both the Republicans and the Democrats? To get a lay of the land, we turn now to Gallup Poll's editor in chief. That's Frank Newport. Good morning, Frank.
[Frank Newport, Gallup Poll Editor In Chief:] Good morning, Daryn. In fact, we just finished polling last night. We polled Sunday and Monday night after the South Carolina primary this is nationally to see what impact all of it's having on Republicans and Democrats across the country, and there's some good news for both Bush and for McCain, we think, in what we're finding here. Let's show you first how registered Republicans across the country are choosing between Bush and McCain. The change came after New Hampshire there when McCain went up on that bottom line to 34 percent. But since there in three surveys we've conducted, not much change. Bush maintains his very comfortable lead over John McCain as the first choice for the nomination among Republicans nationally. South Carolina didn't have any impact either way on John McCain. But when we look at the favorable ratings of the two candidates, it looks as if George W. Bush may be taking a slight hit as he moves further to the right, at least as it's perceived, and is somewhat more critical, again, as is perceived. His favorable ratings have gone from 66 percent pre-New Hampshire to 58 percent in our poll as of last night down a little. John McCain jumped from 51 after New Hampshire to 67 percent as a lot more people got to know him, and he stayed fairly high. So, at this point, nationally, among everybody, Republicans and Democrats, McCain has a more positive image than George W. Bush. Now, on the Democratic side, there's not been a lot of there was a debate last night, but no real primaries have occurred since New Hampshire, and that top line is Al Gore. He's maintaining among Democrats a very comfortable lead over Bill Bradley. We'll see in March whether Bradley's able the break out of that. But we can look at the November hypothetical match-ups. This is, who would you vote for in November? among likely voters. And here we see McCain has a real edge. Bush beats Gore by just five points, but in our last three surveys since New Hampshire, we found that Senator John McCain beats Gore much more comfortably in this last poll, as you can see, by over 20 points. That's because John McCain is appealing to Independents and soft Democrats around the country as of this point. That's where we stand. We'll see what happens after the primaries today. Back to you.
[Kagan:] Frank, thanks for those latest numbers.