Posted on 09/21/2005 7:06:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone
(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is the top presidential contender for GOP supporters in the United States, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 31 per cent of Republican voters would prefer Giuliani as the party’s nominee in 2008.
Arizona senator John McCain is second with 28 per cent, followed by current state secretary Condoleezza Rice with 19 per cent. 12 per cent of respondents would support other contenders or are undecided.
Giuliani garnered national and international attention in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In 2000, McCain won seven Republican presidential primaries in the U.S., but retired from the race after eventual nominee George W. Bush became the frontrunner.
Rice is the second woman—after Madeleine Albright—and the second African-American—after Colin Powell—to serve as state secretary. She previously acted as the White House’s national security advisor during U.S. president George W. Bush’s first term in office.
The next presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.
Polling Data
Who would you vote for as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2008?
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Rudy Giuliani |
31% |
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John McCain |
28% |
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Condoleezza Rice |
19% |
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Other / Undecided |
12% |
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 370 Republican voters, conducted on Sept. 14, 2005. Margin of error is 5 per cent.
Here is the Rassmussen poll:
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September 19, 2005--Senator John McCain leads Senator Hillary Clinton by 8 percentage points in an early 2008 Presidential Election poll. McCain attracts 47% of the vote while Clinton earns 39%. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani holds a 4-point edge over New York's Junior Senator, 47% to 43%. Giuliani is currently the top choice among Republicans for their party nomination. McCain is second. Some had anticipated that Giuliani would get a "Katrina bounce" based upon his performance as Mayor of New York on 9-11. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of American voters believe Giuliani would be better than Clinton at handling a natural disaster. Just 31% think Clinton would be better. Giuliani is also seen better at handling natural disasters than McCain. Fifty-nine percent (59%) say Giuliani would be better while 22% give the edge to McCain. However, in our last survey before Katrina, McCain held a 2-point edge over Clinton while Giuliani was ahead of Clinton by 3 percentage points. It is not clear why McCain gained ground and Giuliani did not.When it comes to handling the situation in Iraq, 49% of voters say Giuliani would be better than Clinton. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say Clinton would be better. |
Voters are evenly divided as to whether Giuliani or Clinton would do a better job managing the economy. They give a slight edge to the Republican on immigration issues.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) have a favorable opinion of Giuliani while 26% have an unfavorable view. For McCain, the numbers are 52% favorable and 28% unfavorable.
Clinton is far more polarizing--44% favorable and 49% unfavorable in this survey. Rasmussen Reports has been following public perceptions of Senator Clinton every other week through the Hillary Meter.
Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.
Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome.
During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined.
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Could you explain it to me?
Make it Giuliani/DeLay and I'm in.
The country needs a powerful, charismatic, articulate leader. Go Rudy!
What does it mean that Gulianni supports abortion? Would he want his daughter to get one?
He supports Abortion because as a public office holder he carried out the law. In that regard Bush also supports Abortion. His Justice Dept would prosecute anyone interfering with an abortion clinic.
If you insist that Catholics can not further the practice of abortion then no Catholic can hold public office as long as the right to an abortion is the law of the land.
BTW, I only ask questions on this topic.
"I love Cheney's style best."
"So do I.
In my mind's eye, I'd love to see a Cheney/Rummy ticket.
Unfortunately, Cheney won't run in '08."
-I don't know for sure of course, but a few months back (I can't remember where), but Cheney gave a very weak maybe. That to me means it will be a sneak attack.
As for as dreaming I was once a fan of a Cheney/Powell ticket and the Cheney/Lieberman ticket.
Senator Lieberman is more of my style than many Republicans, and he stand solid on THE WAR ON TERROR. I gained a lot of respect for the man once he was away from Gore.
NOt too much time, just the errant ability to remember trivial things when I can't even remember to take out the trash.
Interesting combination there!
So what's YOUR solution??
I would love to see Cheney or Gingrich run, with any number of possibilities as V.P. Neither will happen, though. The media will convince the sheeple that Cheney is on his last breath, and I don't believe Gingrich is electable.
I would think Powell would stand a pretty good chance. I honestly would prefer someone with a strong military background.
Wouldn't it be funny if it were Powell/Rice?
The left would implode.
If Hillary comes out as the candidate, we are going to have to have someone who is not extreme right.
Who knows. And you know what? WHOEVER the pubby candidate turns out to be, that is who I am voting for. And it is not blind partisanship that would make me do that. Anyone is better than a dem, and not voting at all is not an option for me. And like it or not, there is no point to voting a third party.
I would just like to ask you and others of the same mind - just who do you think it is you are "punishing" when you stand on principle and let the RATS win by default?
"I would just like to ask you and others of the same mind -just who do you think it is you are "punishing" when you stand on principle and let the RATS win by default?"
People knew about Arnold, and didn't like McClintock.
McClintock was never going to win in California. He doesn't have the personality for it. Arnold is also much better than Gray Davis.
I think most of us that voted for Arnold really wanted Davis out of there.
Yet more bullsh*t designed to introduce the "power of suggestion" (aimed at the stupid, the ignorant, and the weak-minded) into what needs to be a thoughtful, serious decision - who will the leader of the FREE-world.
The key word above is "FREE". With RINO's in charge, our country, as envisioned by our founding fathers, will become much less free than it already has become.
RINO-Rudy and RINO-McShame rate nothing more than an EXTREME BARF-ALERT and our total disdain.
No pro-gay, pro-death (for innocent babies), gun-grabbing, RINO's for me, and MANY like me.
Wonder if Newt Gingrich will run. He would be far better than rinos McCain and/or Guiliani.
That was true in The Peoples Republic of California, but in a NATIONAL election for the leader of the free world, there won't be the same mass numbers of "fruits and nuts", both demonRAT and so-called "republicans" (RINO's) voting.
Who, in their right minds, and not depending on emotion alone, could get "starstruck" with RINO-Rudy (or McCain, or any other RINO)?
At least McCain has war-time military service in his past. What does RINO-Rudy have? Let's review:
Cheating on his wife, gun-grabbing, abortion-loving, gay-adoring, etc.
And how could anyone be "starstruck" by a balding little man with a speech impediment? He looks like a mix between Mr. Burns (Homer's boss on the Simpson's) and Heinrich Himmler (former bureaucrat post office worker, before he became the sadistic head of Hitler's Gestapo SS).
It never ceases to AMAZE me.
That was true in The Peoples Republic of California, but in a NATIONAL election for the leader of the free world, there won't be the same mass numbers of "fruits and nuts", both demonRAT and so-called "republicans" (RINO's) voting.
Who, in their right minds, and not depending on emotion alone, could get "starstruck" with RINO-Rudy (or McCain, or any other RINO)?
At least McCain has war-time military service in his past. What does RINO-Rudy have? Let's review:
Cheating on his wife, gun-grabbing, abortion-loving, gay-adoring, etc.
And how could anyone be "starstruck" by a balding little man with a speech impediment? He looks like a mix between Mr. Burns (Homer's boss on the Simpson's) and Heinrich Himmler (former bureaucrat post office worker, before he became the sadistic head of Hitler's Gestapo SS).
It never ceases to AMAZE me.
Only those who vote for people of by their accomplishments and judge by looks only those putting themselves up for pagents.
Dear Sabramerican,
If a Catholic political leader says, "I will uphold the laws concerning abortion even as I work to change them, to make abortion illegal" then one might argue that that is acceptable.
But if a Catholic political leader says, "I will uphold the laws concerning abortion, and I believe that they should not be changed," then he is no longer in harmony with the teaching of the Catholic Church.
Regrettably, Mr. Giuliani is of the latter group, not the former. He endorses abortion "rights," and is opposed to any changes regarding them. Leading Catholic figures, including then-Cardinal Ratzinger, currently Pope Benedict XVI, have stated that individuals like these should be barred from the reception of Catholic sacraments.
That's an indication that the fellow who is Pope Benedict XVI views these political leaders as no longer Catholics in good standing.
sitetest
Same as I wrote above. You will have few if any "real" Catholics in office.
It's a cheap trick for someone who has no say to tell you that he/she is working on "changing things".
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