A new poll came out today showing Fred Thompson in the lead in South Carolina. I would take it with a grain of salt as its results on both the Democratic and Republican sides are much different than other recent polling. We will need to see more polling to see if this is an outlier or not.

According to the latest Public Policy Polling survey of likely South Carolina primary voters, Sen. Barack Obama leads the Democratic presidential race with the support of 34%, trailed by Sen. Hillary Clinton with 31% and John Edwards with 15%.

On the GOP side, Fred Thompson leads his rivals with 27%, followed by Mitt Romney at 16%, Sen. John McCain at 15%, Rudy Giuliani at 14% and Newt Gingrich at 11%.

H/T PoliticalWire