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Republicans 2008: Giuliani 28%, McCain 20%
Angus Reid Global Monitor ^ | 1/20/2007 | Staff

Posted on 01/19/2007 2:35:59 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; gingrich; giuliani; gorudygo; mccain; rudy
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To: EagleUSA
. "Newt is the only true conservative in the list";



It is true! And He should be the next president of the US!
41 posted on 01/19/2007 4:16:28 PM PST by SeeSalt
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To: TitansAFC

I'm starting to think Newt JUST MIGHT have a shot. He says he isn't declaring unless nobody else worthwhile shows up...and not till September, but if he sees how well he's polling...who knows?


42 posted on 01/19/2007 4:20:40 PM PST by RockinRight (To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: Beagle8U

WOW! You are missing a terrific city!

And so much history. "The first time I went there I was working on the New York Stock Exchange for a week. I walked a block away to Trinity Church which I knew from my Revolutionary War books. I walked up the stairs and noticed the graveyard at the church ... I buimbled back down the stairs and looked at the first gravestone. I nearly feel over. It was ALEXANDER HAMILTON!!!

Wall Street is right in the middle of American history ... the whole city is. George Washington's favorite church is still there right by Wall Street and was a temporary hospital during 9/11.

It is simply awesome.


43 posted on 01/19/2007 4:27:34 PM PST by BunnySlippers (SAY YES TO RUDY !!!)
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To: oceanview

See # 43.


44 posted on 01/19/2007 4:28:03 PM PST by BunnySlippers (SAY YES TO RUDY !!!)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Yes we do, unfortunately... I was hoping that if GOP won last election, Dems would break up with many deciding the far-left is hurting them nore than benefits. Unfortunately, their "Hail Mary" with Rahm's-Schumer stragey of fielding faux "conservative" Dems, and all-out assault from al-Media and legal system (FBI raids, indictments, insinuations...) worked and now it's "Stupid Party"'s turn to see if they can keep their coalitions together.

Fortunately, it's better to get these out of their system early (like now) and coalesce behind a solid conservative with ideas, imagination, good speaking abilities to deliver these ideas to populace over and above the media waves.

I think Newt is this man, with VP of Condi or Hunter or someone like.

I always thought that breaking up Democrats should happen before "cleaning up GOP house", as many true conservative ex-Democrats (Zell Miller type) could join GOP, and marginal RINOs would go to one of the spinoffs of Democrats, thus dividing them and marginalizing even further the "progressives".

Oh well, we'll have to wait for Democrat Party crack-up some other time, hopefully not too long after 2008.


45 posted on 01/19/2007 4:31:37 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: EagleUSA
Newt is the only true conservative in the list. What a mess.

Are you serious? Newt helped to sell the budget busting prescription drugs plan, the biggest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ. Please note that the vote on that measure was very close and Dubya had to twist arms to get it....thus your man Newt could have made the different in advancing this march to socialism.

46 posted on 01/19/2007 4:31:40 PM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: BunnySlippers

Hmm. Perhaps, Rudy is somewhat reminiscent of a Churchill. Churchill was totally ridiculed as a drunk and everything else, yada, yada, yada, in his day. The exemplary qualities sometimes seem to come out of the blue to rise to the occasion. Churchill's "fireside chats" kept people going in very, very, dark days.


47 posted on 01/19/2007 4:32:09 PM PST by khnyny
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To: Dark Skies
I like Guiliani as a person and as mayor of New York, but still prefer Duncan Hunter for President.

He is a Reagan style Republican.

48 posted on 01/19/2007 4:34:06 PM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: khnyny
Churchill's "fireside chats" kept people going in very, very, dark days.

It was FDR who made the "fireside chats" though perhaps this says something. Come to think of it Rudy seems closer to the Welfare statist FDR than to Churchill.

49 posted on 01/19/2007 4:36:20 PM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: BunnySlippers
I'm sure it is fine if you like that sort of thing. I just don't care for big crowded cites full of liberals.
50 posted on 01/19/2007 4:37:45 PM PST by Beagle8U
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To: Dark Skies
YES, McCain is NOT electable
51 posted on 01/19/2007 4:38:43 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: Dark Skies

Man, that is a pathetic group. I don't think any one of those guys could win.


52 posted on 01/19/2007 4:43:57 PM PST by SMM48
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To: TitansAFC

Hilly vs Newt, and Hilly wins in a 400+ electoral vote rout.


53 posted on 01/19/2007 4:46:56 PM PST by HitmanLV (Rock, Rock, Rock and Rollergames! Rockin' & Rolling, Rockin' with Rollergames!)
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To: Austin Willard Wright
[ Unfortunately, the RINOS (advocates of bigger government across the board) have been in charge for quite some time. GWB is one of them. ]

Exactly right

54 posted on 01/19/2007 5:04:48 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: HitmanLV

---"Hilly vs Newt, and Hilly wins in a 400+ electoral vote rout."---


Seriously.

I bet you were surprised Bush won Texas in 2004.....

(rolling eyes)


55 posted on 01/19/2007 5:07:11 PM PST by TitansAFC (Pacifism is not peace; pacifists are not peacemakers.)
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To: Dark Skies

Anybody but McCain.


56 posted on 01/19/2007 5:07:15 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Defeat the traitor McCain for President. Job #1.)
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To: TitansAFC

Yes, seriously. And no, I wasn't surprised Bush won Texas in 2004. I actually overstated his strength, predicting about 310 or so EVs.


57 posted on 01/19/2007 5:08:18 PM PST by HitmanLV (Rock, Rock, Rock and Rollergames! Rockin' & Rolling, Rockin' with Rollergames!)
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To: BunnySlippers

He has a major speech defect. Like Tom Brokaw, he can't pronounce "L" when it begins a word. I think you'd get awful tired of listening to that in his speeches should he become president.

Sorry, he has too much baggage--multiple wives that he cheated on; his misplaced playbook suggested that he has some questionable foreign business connections; and from what I've read about him and his management style, he's a one man band. His backing of Bernard Kerick for Homeland Security head when the guy was a known womanizer with shady business practices suggests that he lacks judgment. Plus, he chickened out once in an election against Hillary.

No way I'm voting for him.


58 posted on 01/19/2007 5:12:26 PM PST by WestSylvanian
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To: Austin Willard Wright

Oops. Wrong term. Way before my time. Thanks for the clarification. I knew someone would do it.:) The point I was trying to make, was that an improbable leader (Churchill) had some fantastic speeches which inspired and comforted in dark times. BTW, why do you think Rudy is a socialist? Gotta run, but look forward to a reply if you feel so inclined.


59 posted on 01/19/2007 5:12:41 PM PST by khnyny
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To: HitmanLV
Name three states that Bush won which would switch to Hitlery in 2008 because of a Newt/Rudy ticket.

Hitlery going to win Mississippi? Alaska? South Carolina? Georgia? Montana? Indiana? Ohio - where she enjoys an approval rating in the low 30s?

So you're telling me Hitlery will absolutely destroy her husband's two performances without batting a breath?

I don't think so. Methinks your phobia blinds you to her weakness, much less Newt's strength.

Newt took down Clinton and the Democratic party in their PRIME. He bucked history and an obsessed press to get it done. He has no more baggage than any other major contender, and he is a likable guy when he's actually trying to appeal to people. In a national race, the press can't fail to cover his speeches, and then can't ignore the race itself.

Newt/Rudy would win, period.
60 posted on 01/19/2007 5:18:33 PM PST by TitansAFC (Pacifism is not peace; pacifists are not peacemakers.)
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