"This is really wonderful news!"
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.
Of Course I stopped being a republican in 2001 after moving back to Illinois and saw what passes for pubbies here.
"This is really wonderful news!"
And isn't he pro-choice?
I don't think I would vote for him.
McCain '08 is an MSM pipe dream.
Personally if its a choice between McCain and Rudy I'll take Rudy any day. Most of the other Republicans have been polling in the single digits and watching them on TV talking head shows is like watching paint dry! They are so dull I have to turn it off!
Guiliani is an effective leader. We need one now.
Amazing, MSM wants us to pick a New England politican when we just rejected another New England politican.
No one on that list wil be elected.
People don't realize just how liberal on several issues Rudy truly is. That and the fact that Fox refuses to report on his association with such corrupt individuals as Ray Harding and Bernard Kerick (Kerick is even a Fox commentator!).
Still I will vote for Rudy over McCain. And I believe it is going to come down to those two. Just a gut feeling.
Guiliani is a fine guy. But he's not Presidential. We better have someone good under wraps or I'm advancing Thomas Sowell as the man.
If Giuliani had been put in charge of FEMA, disaster relief wouldn't have to be turned over to the DOD. He has a place a place at the table - just not at the head of the table...
Guliani endorsed Mario Cuomo in 1994.
Some Republican.
I still like an Allen/Giuliani ticket.
I could vote for Sen. McCain (while holding my nose).
I don't think I could vote for Mr. Giuliani for president. At that point, the Republican Party would have entirely abandoned a key constituency of its base, and that would be that. I think I'd have to go third-party at that point.
LOL The Giuliani haters are out in full force. But I knew when I posted this thread they will be here.
Very well-said.
All I believe is that if McLaim is the GOP candidate...Hildabeast WINS!
I hate to say this, but Hillary WILL WIN if Giuliani or McCain doesn't run. No Republican right now can beat Hillary!
Giuliani is anti-gun, believes in national gun registration.
Giuliani is pro-homosexual, haviong dressed as a woman in drag for homosexual event.
He's pro-choice.
He refused to have NY City cops cooperate with INS in turning over illegal invaders.
Giuliani would make a great Democrat.
McCain - the less said the better.
Pence, Allan, or Tancredo are the only real Republicans out there, maybe Santorum also.
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