Posted on 01/21/2007 12:41:58 PM PST by freespirited
On the day that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton officially entered the 2008 presidential sweepstakes, a new Washington Post-ABC News survey shows her with a wide lead over her potential Democratic rivals.
Clinton took 41 percent in a hypothetical primary field against 12 other Democrats, far ahead of Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) at 17 percent, former Sen. John Edwards (N.C) at 11 percent and former Vice President Al Gore at 10 percent. The party's 2004 nominee -- Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) -- received 8 percent support. No other candidate crested three percent.
Those numbers are virtually unchanged from a Post-ABC survey in December that showed Clinton at 39 percent, Obama at 17 percent and Edwards at 12 percent....
On the Republican side, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani held a 34 percent to 27 percent lead over Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), with no other potential candidate registering in double digits. Former Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) took nine percent each. Sen. Sam Brownback, who formally entered the race today, stood at one percent in the poll.
The poll was in the field from Jan. 16-19. It tested 561 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents and 344 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. The Democratic numbers have a four percent margin of error; the Republican side has a 5 percent margin of error.
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Curious... Can anyone find a poll from January 1999? Was W the front-runner?
Hagel, Tancredo and Paul are also astericks.
Where's the promise land?
Rudy & Newt had a joint op-ed piece in the WSJ the other day. It looked suspiciously to me like they were subliminally floating that very idea. It might be very smart for them to team up, actually ... as for personal baggage, neither of them can really say anything about the other -- the pot calling the kettle black and all that, you know.
Asked and answered!
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/06/president.2000/poll/
Elizabeth Dole was the front runner in a New Hampshire poll with 27%. W was showing up at 23%.
My point is - things change.
Things we expect to happen won't. And things we don't expect to happen will. Guaranteed.
I can recall that GWB won the Iowa straw poll, but I think that was in August of '99. The first official primary. McCain went on to best him in NH.
OMG, TWO years of this!!! I'm going to be ill!
This would be her maximum strength and her percent in the general election.
Two years unless Hillary doesn't have a clear win in the National election. Then it will be in court until she wins however long it takes.
Regardless, Rudy, the Beast, Algore, Osama Obama, McScream, Kerry, we are stuck with a liberal/socialist/pro-abortion/anti-conservative. I will not vote for any of these losers.
You mean ABC is no more?
Oh, joy, joy.
No, Tancredo and Paul were *'s were in December, now they both have 1%.
Hagel has rode his anti-war horse to asterisks in both December and January.
Right. Hunter was a 1% and now he's an *.
Really? That isn't the sense I get. Giuliani manages to insense both the FR social conservative and anti-illegal crowds, which doesn't leave many Freepers left. At best many would be okay with Giuliani, especially if MCain is posed as the alternative.
It flabberghasts me that Obama can be as high in the polls as he is. Astounding.
My prediction is that Rudy will be smart and get a southern conservative to run as his VP and they will utterly crush Hitlery, even if she gets Obama to be her VP.
Its not like either of them are going to retire as senators while they run, just like the gutless Kerry.
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