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Florida Republicans Back Giuliani for President
Angus Reid ^ | 7/26/05

Posted on 07/26/2005 7:06:51 AM PDT by areafiftyone

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – More GOP supporters in the Sunshine State believe former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani would be a good presidential candidate, according to a poll by Strategic Vision. 28 per cent of respondents in Florida want Giuliani to be the Republican nominee in the 2008 election, a four per cent increase since June.

Current Florida governor Jeb Bush is second with 19 per cent, followed by Arizona senator John McCain with 17 per cent. Support is lower for former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich, Tennessee senator Bill Frist, Virginia senator George Allen, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, and New York governor George Pataki.

In the 2004 election, Republican George W. Bush won Florida’s 27 electoral votes with 52 per cent of all cast ballots. In 2000, weeks of recounts and court injunctions concluded in a 537-vote victory for Bush over Democrat Al Gore. Since 1972, the only Democrats to carry Florida in a presidential election are Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Bill Clinton in 1996.

Polling Data

Who is your choice for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2008?
(Republicans only)

 

Jul. 2004

Jun. 2004

Rudy Guliani

28%

24%

Jeb Bush

19%

22%

John McCain

17%

15%

Newt Gingrich

9%

8%

Bill Frist

5%

6%

George Allen

4%

4%

Mitt Romney

2%

1%

Rick Santorum

2%

1%

Chuck Hagel

1%

1%

George Pataki

1%

1%

Bill Owens

--

1%

Undecided

12%

16%

Source: Strategic Vision
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,200 registered Florida voters, conducted from Jul. 16 to Jul. 20, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allen2008; florida; guliani2008; ofcoursetheydo
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To: moasicwolf

But I don't see several other possible candidates for office even on this list.

Where is Rice? As far as Rudy is concerned, he hasn't got any more chance than Kerry.

Not that Kerry didn't come within one state of beating an incumbent President, but Rudy wouldn't even win his own state, and that's the way to lose big time.

Any ticket with Rice on it will counter the beast.


61 posted on 07/26/2005 8:33:15 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Little Ray
I feel your pain, but this is what you will get

And don't say there's no difference.
There's a huge difference.

62 posted on 07/26/2005 8:35:59 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Rudy can't beat her.


63 posted on 07/26/2005 8:37:25 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: JohnnyZ

"or to each against his own"

That's just it, JZ, I don't consider "moderate" to left-leaning candidates to be my "own", even if they have an R after their name. I'm a conservative, not a Republican.


64 posted on 07/26/2005 8:38:56 AM PDT by reelfoot
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To: areafiftyone

They must be polling down in Miami and the southern part of the state.


65 posted on 07/26/2005 8:39:06 AM PDT by Naomi4
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To: bill1952
"Any ticket with Rice on it will counter the beast.

What's her position on the issues. We know where she stands on foreign policy but Americans vote on domestic issues. Being a black female won't get her the nomination her positions on the issues will determine her electability.

66 posted on 07/26/2005 8:39:08 AM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: Mase

I'll be voting with you.

Despite all of the prattle about RINOs and such, allowing her to become POTUS and rule for 8 years with the constant drumbeat of the MSM and her ACLU buds would devastate this country.


67 posted on 07/26/2005 8:40:18 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952

George Allen is my choice.


68 posted on 07/26/2005 8:41:13 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (http://www.busateripens.com)
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To: JohnnyZ

That may be the conservative list but none of these men are electable against Hillary, in my opinion.

Giuliani is certainly more electable than these four conservatives.


69 posted on 07/26/2005 8:41:42 AM PDT by Naomi4
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To: reelfoot
I don't consider "moderate" to left-leaning candidates to be my "own"

Well he is your "own" .... senator, which is what I meant in that particular context.

70 posted on 07/26/2005 8:44:33 AM PDT by JohnnyZ ("I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country." -- Mitt Romney)
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To: Naomi4
Giuliani is certainly more electable than these four conservatives.

And I think exactly the opposite. A pro-gay pro-abortion anti-gun nominee would certainly result in President Hillary and maybe a Democrat House and Senate as well. Conservative turnout and motivation would take a huge hit.

71 posted on 07/26/2005 8:46:06 AM PDT by JohnnyZ ("I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country." -- Mitt Romney)
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To: blaquebyrd
Agreed. I don't believe that she will come out early at all and let the MSM take constant shots at her for years.

Her positions will, I hope, become clear when she is a contender, and Americans do vote on foreign issues, as well.

Look at 04.And I'm not sure it matters where she is on the ticket, VP or POTUS.

That I would suppose, depends on the other half, but I doubt that she would help Rudy win.

72 posted on 07/26/2005 8:46:07 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: stocksthatgoup

I have no problem with Allen/Rice.

But I like it the other way, as well. Rice/Allen.

It's just too soon to tell.
The dems, however, need the MSM drumbeat for years to pursue their agenda.


73 posted on 07/26/2005 8:48:07 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952

I guess I'll have count on Republicrat congresscritters to keep her agenda locked up in Congress, then. I am NOT voting for Pataki or Guiliani. If they are the candidates, the South will abandon 'em and its Hillary! for President. Its up to the GOP to police its candidates.


74 posted on 07/26/2005 8:48:22 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: areafiftyone

NO RINO's. Period. That is one of the dumber things the GOP could do to ensure a Hillary victory in '08.


75 posted on 07/26/2005 8:50:13 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)
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To: JohnnyZ

Aside from being pro-gay, pro-choice, and anti-gun is he ELECTABLE?

Isn't that all most Republicans care about anyway?


76 posted on 07/26/2005 8:51:13 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (I'm a RINO because I'm too conservative to be a real Republican.)
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To: JohnnyZ
I would have been most happy to see Rudy run again the beast in 06, but apparently, he doesn't like that idea.

I think that it is just the thing for him to do.

After all, as Hillary will show, being elected to that state in 06 doesn't stop one from running in 08, and a defeat in 06 would end the Clintons entirely.

He must know something that leads him to believe that he can't win in NY, but if he can't beat a carpetbagger like her in NY, then how can he win in 08?
77 posted on 07/26/2005 8:54:27 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Dead Corpse

If this list is the best the GOP can offer, the death throes are further advanced than I thought.


78 posted on 07/26/2005 8:55:20 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Freedom and Islam are utterly incompatible...)
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To: bill1952
"Americans do vote on foreign issues, as well"

FReepers do but I'm not so sure about the general public. I mean the 50 percent of the general public who even bother. They pay more attention to the candidates wife than they do the candidates stance on foreign affairs. Let's be honest most Americans couldn't tell you who the Secretary of State is. Also the press will make Condi's husband problem an issue. That's an issue your average couch potato, reality show watching American can get their minds around.

79 posted on 07/26/2005 8:55:31 AM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: Little Ray

Well, I don't see either of them getting it.

As far as locking her up in congress, nothing that I have seen in the last 6 years would lead me to that conclusion.


80 posted on 07/26/2005 8:56:54 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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