Republicans 2008: Giuliani 28%, McCain 20%

Angus Reid Global Monitor ^ | 1/20/2007 | Staff

[Dark Skies]

Rudy Giuliani is still the preferred presidential hopeful for Republican Party sympathizers in the United States, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 28 per cent of respondents would support the former New York City mayor in a 2008 primary.

Arizona senator John McCain is second with 20 per cent, followed by former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich with 14 per cent, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with eight per cent.

Earlier this month, Gingrich questioned the GOP’s reliance on its conservative base, saying, "Ronald Reagan understood that arguments should be made where we have huge advantages with virtually all Americans. He was brilliant at avoiding base-narrowing appeals and emphasizing base-broadening appeals. A base-motivation party inherently, in the long run, drives away the non-base."

In American elections, candidates require 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the White House. In November 2004, Republican George W. Bush earned a second term after securing 286 electoral votes from 31 states. Democratic nominee John Kerry received 252 electoral votes from 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Bush is ineligible for a third term in office. The next presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.

Polling Data

Republican Presidential Primary Contenders

Rudy Giuliani........28%

John McCain........20%

Newt Gingrich......14%

Mitt Romney.........8%

Source: Rasmussen Reports
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 454 likely Republican voters, conducted from Jan. 8 to Jan. 11, 2007. Margin of error is 5 per cent.

[Dark Skies]

Sift his carefully...I respect you conclusion.

[narses]

He was a great US Attorney. As a policy maker he would be awful.

[TitansAFC]

---"You have yet to be correct about anything, in ANY post, on this thread."---

Considering my posts usually consist of links to polls, that is about as ridiculous a claim as anyone has ever made. The Duncan Hunter stuff was done in facetiousness, since I've seen you trying to sell your Rudy fetish before.

You don't debate people, you just hurl insults. You then make claim as fact things that make me wonder if you actually understand the dictionary definition of the word "fact." Yeah, you Rudy guys (gals) are really winning everybody over.......LOL

But that's okay, you've got the winning strategy: alienate the Conservative grassroots and sell the Iraq War to the Moderates and Liberals. The grassroots will gladly understand that none of their issues matter anymore, only the war, and the Moderates and Liberals will all come lining-up for four more years of GOP Presidency and war based on the sheer character of Rudy Giuliani. Oh yeah, I can just see his swearing-in now.......

As far as Conservative credentials, Newt is a universe ahead of Rudy Giuliani. Outside of assumptions he'll be tough on terror, and a decent record as a prosecutor, Rudy has none. Even his so-called fiscal Conservatism is in question when you account for his funding of Liberal Social programs like abortion, and the fact that he got NY temporarily out of the red by BORROWING tons of money that will have to be paid year by year. Bush "balanced" the budget, too, also by running up massive debts. You don't hear ANYONE calling him a fiscal Conservative anymore, and Rudy deserve the same scrutiny.

Newt won nationally, bucked a generation of history in leading the GOP to power, and was Speaker of the House. Outside of being Mayor of one of the most liberal, if not the most liberal, cities in America, Rudy has won nothing and proven nothing. In his first steps on a national campaign, he lost key campaign documents, has already retooled his staff, and has dropped consistently in state and primary polls for the last few months.

All Rudy has done so far is foul-up and try to reinvent himself. And that's from the already questionable character who's perhaps the single most Liberal candidate to run on the GOP side in my lifetime (arguably Gerald Ford could have been).

You may like him and hurl all the insults you always do. But you are FOOLING yourself if you think that all of us who have been fighting for years on important Conservative issues are just going to give them all up for the sake of getting behind Rudy. Better to lose an election than everything you believe in. To many of us there is more to lose on so many of our key issues - MORE to lose - by electing Rudy than by suffering through four years of Clinton and trying to get it right in 2012.

Rudy can't win. He can't. This ISN'T NY City - it's national.

[narses]

Bingo!

[nopardons]

It's also going to be HELL on FR and probably worse than in '99 and 2000. :-(

The war and terrorism SHOULD be THE number 1 issue; but it remains to be seen if it will be.

[nopardons]

And I've been here longer than all you..........COMBINED! LOL

[nopardons]

Header.........YOU MUST INCLUDE MY NIC IN THE HEADER, when you talk about me!

She, I'm a SHE and unlike YOU, I am a CONSERVATIVE!

No, YOU "check the history"! I am well known, in these parts for posting cogent, coherent, well thought out and correct political history and salient facts. It's just that I don't suffer fools; dear.

Ohm so you plan on voting for Hillary, do you? Thanks for that admission. :-)

[nopardons]

Oh oh......now you've gone and done it......you've insulted both of us. LOL

[nopardons]

Well, we'll see. None of this means much, until the primaries actually start.

[nopardons]

What about the TWO great, Conservative JUSTICES; Roberts and Alito?

[nopardons]

They might, if you removed the burka! :-)

[nopardons]

He was term limited out.

But I do admit that your reply is funny! :-)

[nopardons]

Pataki is an utter disgrace.

That being said, abortion isn't the be all and end all; no matter WHAT you think.

[nopardons]

Sweetums, I AM "the grass roots"!

Your posts have been far more than just links to polls; they've been filled with impugnations, falsehoods, errors, and outright lies!

No, your Hunter remarks were NOT done "facetiously". You're just a clueless, delusional baby; is all.

[hosepipe]

LoL...

[no dems]

Come on HP...you know that McCain is a psycho and Rudy is an effective leader.

Don't be surprised if he gets booted out of the running in the GOP Primaries, if John McManiac runs as an Independent. There is one group already wanting him on their ticket. (www.unity08.com)

[B Knotts]

Yes...I think this is the third poll in a row which has Newt coming in a strong third.

[nopardons]

:-)

[Blackirish]

I think it does mean a lot. Rudy and McCaine have been on top for a long time. Thats a fact. 08 ha been on for a while ..the social right took a hit in 08. The voters are looking for competence....It will take a 100 mill to win this election meaning star power

It's lining up between Rudy ..Romney ...McCaine.

Anyone in single digits is just lining for a VP slot...IMO.

[Sprite518]

Alito was not his first choice. He was forced into it by Conservatives. I did like the Roberts nomination.