Posted on 01/30/2007 5:41:01 AM PST by areafiftyone
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a strong lead over other Democratic presidential contenders in a new poll of voters in Ohio, the closely divided swing state that tipped the 2004 election for President Bush.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani, who appeared in TV ads and at fundraisers during last year's gubernatorial race, is the favorite among the state's Republican voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. He is favored by 30 percent of voters surveyed compared to 22 percent for Sen. John McCain, 11 percent for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 4 percent for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Among Ohio Democrats, 38 percent pick Clinton, 13 percent pick Sen. Barack Obama, 11 percent pick former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, and 6 percent would vote for former Vice President Al Gore. Ohio's own Rep. Dennis Kucinich gets just 2 percent of the vote, or less than the survey's margin of error.
"Those who say Sen. Hillary Clinton can't win the White House because she can't win a key swing state like Ohio might rethink their assumption," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
The institute polled 1,305 registered Ohio voters by phone from last Tuesday to Sunday. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. When results are broken down by party, the margin of error rises to plus or minus 4 percentage points for Democrats, and plus or minus 5 percentage points for Republicans.
Though she holds a strong early lead within her own party, Clinton also faces the strongest bloc of voters among the early contenders - 38 percent - who dislike her, perhaps explaining why she did not beat the poll's margin of error in any of the head-to-head match-ups tested.
The survey found hypothetical contests between Clinton and Guiliani, Clinton and McCain, Obama and McCain, and Edwards and McCain all within the margin of error.
"Given their stronger overall image, Mayor Guiliani and Sen. McCain would seem to have the potential to improve their standing," Brown said. "That might be much more difficult for Sen. Clinton because of the larger number of voters who don't like her."
The poll also found that 60 percent of Ohio voters oppose Bush's plan to send 22,000 additional troops into Iraq. Fifty-six percent say going to war in Iraq was wrong, and 65 percent dislike Bush's handling of the situation.
AWWWW shucks! LOL! Good morning Jake the Goose - I guess the ALLEN KEYES RINSE AND REPEAT CROWD ARE IN FULL FORCE using up a ton of bandwidth!
Duncan Hunter = Zero Executive Experience.
Duncan Hunter = Legislative Accomplishments.
Now that's funny - spit my coffee half way across the room.
Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!
Didn't ask me. No one will energize the hard working GOP base in Ohio like Hillary. Good Buckeyes won't let Buckeye friends vote for Hillary.
Funny how the cult of Duncan Hunter go into hiding when asked about his failure to get a single sponsored bill passed during his legislative career.
Feb. 5, 2008, may become Super-Duper Tuesday with, perhaps, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah voting on the same day..
Think about that. That means the nominee won't just be able to go to IA and NH shake some hands and come from nowhere.
They will need an entire national ground game and close to 100 million to buy radio and TV ads within a year.
They have to make the ads ....hire thousands of people..pollsters...consultants...the logistacs in this time constrant are staggering.
There are 5-6 people in the country who can pull that off. Rudy,Romney,McCaine, Hillary and maybe Obama, Colin Powell,Edwards.
The rest of the pack is already toast.
The far social right has already been cut right out
Well - Hunter is a solid enough man - comes across as tough - not afraid to give a straight answer - but that's not enough to be chief executive.
My first question of any candidate is: "have you acted as executive administrator? If so - what was your record".
Being President is just being CEO - you don't jump from salesman to CEO - you don't jump from Senator or Congressman to President.
Why else do always look for experience ---- Senators and Congressman are buearocrats - not Presidents.....
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Don't forget to vote for Rudy on the sidebar poll!
Well I haven't been told I can't post a poll thread yet or a Rudy thread. But in case you haven't noticed you guys have made this only about Rudy - it's also about Clinton and the other candidates and how they are doing in the polls. But apparently Rudy is the only one you guys are obsessed with.
No it doesn't because these people AREN'T Reagan People they are Allen Keyes people!
Dunkin Hunter has as much chance as Custer's Bugler of being the next POTUS.
Of course if one really thinks he has a chance go to Tradespot you can buy him cheap 200-1 LOL
I look at Duncan Hunter as a right wing guide post,, he will debate and force other candidates back to the middle or to the right.
That makes him useful.
Well my stock still stays with Duncan Hunter for President!!!
He leads the Free Republic Poll:
If the short list for Republican Nominee were narrowed down to the following, which one would you favor? Duncan Hunter 26.1% Newt Gingrich 25.8% Tom Tancredo 14.9% Rudy Giuliani 12.4% Undecided/pass 7.7% Ron Paul 6.9% Mitt Romney 5.2% John McCain 1.0%Hunter Fans Please vote today. Free Republic has a brand new poll: If the short list for Republican Nominee were narrowed down to the following, which one would you favor?
VOTE DUNCAN HUNTER!!! ...I mean if you like the guy.
You have hit on something vital here.
There are do-ers and there are watchers, in real life and online. I consider myself a do-er. I've played a role, however small, on every campaign since Reagan's. Going to rallies, giving money, sending emails, volunteering at polling places, you name it. I've had the opportunity to meet many interesting people this way btw, including President Bush. Memories I cherish.
But most people don't put themselves out there, they just jawbone, in life and the cyberworld. Lots of opinions, sometimes very loud and adamant. But they don't do diddly.
Rino Rudy is a liberal who will split the party. A conservative would never support such a man.
Guiliani certainly has his share of negatives as is constantly pointed out by fellow Freepers. But it should not be overlooked that he is strongly against terror, he reduced taxes and gov't. while mayor, and took on organized crime which culminated in putting John Gotti away for good.
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