The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows little change in the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination. It’s Fred Thompson with 25% and Rudy Giuliani at 23%. The next level features Mitt Romney at 13% and John McCain at 10% while Mike Huckabee earns support from 6% of Likely Republican Primary Voters. (see recent daily numbers).

The Rasmussen Reports weekly analysis notes that the race for the GOP nomination is getting murkier and has no clear frontrunner. In South Carolina, Thompson continues to enjoy a modest lead over Giuliani while Romney has overtaken McCain for third place.

In the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Hillary Clinton attracts 44% support followed by Barack Obama at 22% John Edwards is at 15%. No other candidate attracts more than 2% support from Likely Democratic Primary Voters (see recent daily numbers). Clinton also enjoys a double-digit lead for the first time in South Carolina.

The Rasmussen Reports weekly analysis of this race notes that Clinton is a far more serious frontrunner than Howard Dean was in 2004. However, the former First Lady’s nomination is not inevitable. Clinton made a rare campaign mistake last Friday by proposing that all children born in the United States should receive a $5,000 “Baby Bond.” Voters oppose this concept by a 2-to-1 margin and Larry Sabato believes Clinton may have handed the GOP a “powerful issue” for the fall campaign.

The Rasmussen Reports Election 2008 Presidential Tracking Poll is updated daily, Monday through Friday. Daily results are based upon a four day rolling average and new results are posted each day by noon Eastern.

Daily tracking results are from survey interviews conducted over four days ending last night. Each update includes approximately 750-800 Likely Democratic Primary Voters and 600-650 Likely Republican Primary Voters. Margin of sampling error for each is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Rasmussen Reports provides a weekly analysis of both the Republican and Democratic race each Monday.

Each Monday, full week results are released based upon a seven-day rolling average. While the daily tracking result are useful for measuring quick reaction to events in the news, the full week results provide an effective means for evaluating longer-term trends.