Posted on 01/31/2007 5:46:06 PM PST by Dark Skies
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is the favourite Republican United States presidential contender for voters in the Garden State, according to a poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. 48 per cent of respondents in New Jersey would vote for Giuliani in a head-to-head contest against Democratic New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In other match-ups, Rodham Clinton holds a one-point edge over Arizona senator John McCain, and a 24-point advantage over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. McCain leads former North Carolina senator John Edwards by six points, and Illinois senator Barack Obama by three points.
In 2004, Democratic nominee John Kerry carried New Jersey’s 15 electoral votes, with 53 per cent of the vote. No Republican has won the Garden State since George H. Bush in 1988.
Incumbent George W. Bush is ineligible for a third term in office. The next United States presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.
Polling Data
If the 2008 election for President were being held today, and the candidates were (the Democrat) and (the Republican), for whom would you vote?
Rudy Giuliani (R) 48% - 41% Hillary Rodham Clinton (R)
John McCain (R) 43% - 44% Hillary Rodham Clinton (R)
Mitt Romney (R) 29% - 53% Hillary Rodham Clinton (R)
John McCain (R) 45% - 39% John Edwards (R)
John McCain (R) 42% - 39% Barack Obama (R)
(sic) re: all the erroneous "(R)" designations.
Source: Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,310 registered Ohio voters, conducted from Jan. 16 to Jan. 22, 2006. Margin of error is 2.7 per cent.
Amen.
Thanks for the good news ping. Let's turn those blue states red!
Actually, he isn't. Top Democrat strategists worry far more about Romney, especially if he can push past the senseless evangelical opposition.
Top Democrat strategists know they have nothing to play against Romney except the religion card. Ted Kennedy's goons and the Massachusett Democrat Party machinery spent months and tens of millions of dollars trying to uncover weaknesses in Romeny's personal and professional life and came up empty.
Rudy, on the other hand, is dragging an 18-wheeler full of infidelities, poor judgment, and radical left wing tendencies. And the Democrats have nearly a complete inventory of all of them.
I am certain Rudy if he is the nominee will hold Ohio and have a better that even chance of flipping PA, woo hoo!
I like the Keating idea but having a little extra something like a VP from the southern tier would be good strategery to me to hold that region in place. No offense PHIKAPMOM, LOL!
Duncan Hunter looks to be building up steam quite nicely. Even getting a lot more play in the MSM. FR's poll shows Hunter being the leader of the pack here. The more I learn about him, the more I like him as a candidate.
Rudy McRomney will get ZERO support from people like me. We aren't "unappeasable". Hunter. Gingrich. Tancredo. Brownback. Pawlenty. All good choices that have a lot more "conservative" credibility than the Big 3 RINO's being noised about.
Actually, those are about as accurate as the (R) after Giuliani's name.
Yes. If a more conservative candidate starts to pick up momentum and surpass Rudy, I would be just as happy to have Rudy in the VP spot. I just think it would be a great victory for us to take key blue states. At least we would have a decisive win rather than a squeaker like 2000. Taking states like NY, NJ, OH, PA and FL would be a real victory. Once he's in, if he doesn't meet the traditional Republican agenda as he is promising to do, we kick him out in 2012. It beats losing the WH to Hillary or Obama while the rats control both houses.
I think that is exactly the plan, to remove the entire conservative movement, regardless of who wins the Presidency.
With all due respect, it's not just the Rudy rooters. How do you explain his front runner status in the various states being polled? There are tens of thousands of Republican voters who are not freepers.
Would love to hear!
I addressed this yesterday. Rudy may only poll 13% here on FR, and he may even poll 30% within the entire party. Even if he pulls 75% (highly unlikely) of the GOP vote, the remaining 25% or more will NEVER accept him with his liberal stances on abortion, partial birth abortion, gun control, stem cell research, or homosexual agenda. Rudy will not gain the support of the millions of Religious Right voters that GWB benefited from. Those people were mobilized in an extremely well organized effort to win back a majority in the Supreme Court. They have no reason to endorse a gun-grabbing, homosexual-agenda abortionist in 2008.
Going into a general election already outnumbered by Democrats, he would have to pull a huge number of Dem votes. When they are given the choice of a Dem they trust against a Dem who claims to be conserevative (Rudy) why do you think they will vote for? He cannot win.
I missed seeing your post yesterday. Thanks for the explanation. Given the close election in 2000, isn't the reverse also true? The same way the conservatives sit out Rudy, won't the middle of the road Republicans sit out an ultra conservative?
Yes, that could very well happen. That is why it is important to unite behind a nominee that can pull all these factions together, not drive them apart. I contend that Rudy Giuliani will drive a huge wedge between the GOP and the Religious Right. Just look at what his supporters have done here at FR!
What a great ticket--Keating a former governor and former FBI. Does he any/much 'baggage'?
You haven't noticed how polarized we have become since 2000 have you? There isn't a lot in the middle any more.
Gov Keating was never really considered for anything after Bush ran in 2000. I don't know of anything in his background that would have taken him out except he tells it like he it is.
Unless you count baggage he took on the teacher's union here in OK and they went ballistic.
We are part of the south! :)
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