Posted on 11/13/2005 2:28:18 PM PST by RWR8189
November 12, 2005--Unlike the Democrats, there is no clear frontrunner for the Republican Party's 2008 Presidential nomination.
Three candidates, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Senator John McCain all are favored by more than 20% of GOP voters. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist are the only other Republicans to reach the 5% level of support.
McCain is the leader among the minority of Republicans with an unfavorable opinion of George W. Bush.
If the three leading candidates do not run, "Not Sure" takes over the Republican lead at 30%. In that scenario, Gingrich is the top choice for 27% of Republicans and Frist is next at 11%.
Senator Chuck Hagel, Senator George Allen, and Congressman Tom Tancredo were also included in the survey. None of them reached the 5% level of support.
A plurality of Rice supporters favor Gingrich if the Secretary of State is not in the running. A plurality of both the McCain and Giuliani supporters move to the Not Sure category.
New York Governor George Pataki attracts more of Giuliani's vote than any other Republican.
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A separate survey conducted earlier this year found both McCain and Giuliani leading the Democrat's frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
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You mean Romney: pro-Roe v. Wade, pro-domestic partner benefits, pro-homosexual Scoutmasters, appoints openly homosexual judges? They'll chew him up and spit him out in Iowa, S.C., and Super Tuesday down south.
And the bad news is most conservatives are packing heat.
No, I was merely correcting a misstated assertion.
It's not shocking.
Only fanatics hate McCain. I don't love the guy, but the amount of hate and rediculous hyperbole against him around here is absolutely rediculous. It's illogical and destructive.
I decided to read some of safisoft's post and he is on a one man jihad to trash condi with unsubstantiated rumor and inuendo.
I'd say out of the last 100 posts safisoft has made 60 are probably gratuitous trashing of Condi.
Further, he has been accused by at least 3 different freepers of gratuitous insults.
I suggest you read them for yourself.
please read post 285
Rice, too anti-semetic?! AHAHAHA!!! crazy talk.
Because she is black.
Personally, I would love to have condi be president.
I do too, but he does not pass the republican litmus test of being pro life.
read post 285 and read this person's other posts too.
Condi would be fabulous and you and the rest of your kind are more than welcome to go and form your own party.
I think Condie is very good as a VP.
I guess I must be a fanatic then...especially after McCain co-sponsoring the McCain-Feingold Act which is nothing but an assault on the First Amendment and gave absurd amounts of power to George Soros and MoveOn.org.
McCain isn't fit to be called a Republican. He's nothing but a Democrat with an "R" by his name.
Dude...either chill out or increase your medication.
Interesting. I think that maybe JIMRob should ... I dunno. The creep really twists my shorts. I'd suggest a ZOT. I try to keep my head down with my opinions. I was semi-banned here once; so I'm not sure what I can say or not say.
"All three are Pro Abort!"
Absolutely irrelevant. Out of the three, who will work the harest to protect this nation?
Any of them are better than Hillary.
Too many ex-wives between the two.
McCain, for all his faults, has always been pro-life.
Who do you all think will be on the ticket? I have no opinion at this time of any of them, except it would be a cold day before I ever voted for the likes of mccain
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