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.
I pray to God, for the sake of my country, Rudy is not the republican candidate. We need a conservative, not a gun grabbing asspirate loving baby hooverer type.
Newt is not nearly as "Conservative" as you seem to think he is.
Three states that Dubya won but Newt wouldn't win are:
Nevada
New Mexico
Ohio
add Colorado and maybe even Florida. Newt is a poor national candidate.
At least a President Hillary! will once again unite the Republican party in a common cause.
Viva La Revolution!
Socialist is too wrong a word but Rudy is no friend of limited government, even in his rhetoric. If president, we can pretty much guarantee that he'd bring in national health insurance.
Newt is not nearly as "Conservative" as you seem to think he is.
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Einstein was right - everything is relative. And there is alot more to getting elected. But the Repubs and America will lose BIG in 2008 if the Repub candidate is not a fighter. Someone who will stand up against Hitlery or who ever, and expose the socialists for what they are.
BTTT
Newt has "mojo"? What are YOU on? LOL
Newt is "absent from the news"? He's been all over every single cable show and lots of talk radio shows for YEARS; he's been on Sean's radio show, O'Reilly's T.V. show, and Sean's T.V. show, all in one day/night, OFTEN, and that's when he isn't pushing a book and NOTHING much is going on in the news. He's almost more exposed than Paris Hilton; for crying out loud.
Rudy will NOT take VEEP; Newt might. But a ticket with two guys who have had six wives between then and Newt's adultery record is far worse than Rudy's, is NOT a winning ticket!
I live in Nevada and the GOP brand is damaged. Dubya couldn't win an election for dog catcher right now. Of course, he isn't running in 2008 but the GOP will need a strong candidate to win SW voters in 2008.
The GOP brand name is severely damaged in Ohio and I can easily see them going dem in 2008, especially if the GOP fields a weak candidate.
I think Newt is a better behind the scenes guy these days. He was savaged in 1995 and never really recovered. He comes across as a smug, unlikeable man to most people.
Don't hitch your wagon to Newt's star.
Jim.......is this still a Conservative forum? Why do you tolerate people like this? Do you really need the money that bad?
Mine too; but, Haley is NOT going to run and will NOT allow himself to be drafted.
Godbert.....still running to Mommy.....
Try standing your ground and debating the merits.
A coin flip would be pretty accurate...
I say Newt/Rudy because people like me won't support Rudy as President.
The debate happens here every day between the only-Rudy-and-none-else folks and the never-Rudy folks. Surely you can see Rudy is incapable of uniting the party behind him. And I refuse to believe for one second that he's going to be able to sell an unpopular war to a bunch of squishy voters who want out of Iraq yesterday, much less in numbers enough to overcome the loss on the right, both in votes and grassroots efforts.
Rudy will lose too much of the base, and might get Perot-ed.
I certainly wouldn't vote for the man right now for President.
The more the right learns about Rudy, the more his numbers drop. He's been dropping in every primary state - take Iowa, for example:
Early August 2006:
Giuliani 39%
http://community.livejournal.com/southern_hope/71993.html
Churchill was not an "improbable" leader, he was a "born" leader with a long history of leadership and vision (and sometimes failure) way before he became a PM.
If you're looking for Churchillian character among current crop of GOP contender, look at Newt - he's a fervent admirer of Churchill and knows and quotes his history well, as he does most history... He can also articulate history and ideas and vision well and forcefully, which is what GOP needs more than anything now.
You have a problem take it up with the management. I'm not interested in talking with homosexual activists such as yourself.
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