Posted on 02/12/2007 6:43:36 AM PST by areafiftyone
MANCHESTER, N.H. - New Hampshire residents likely to vote in the Republican presidential primary a year from now think more highly of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani than any of his rivals, a poll released Tuesday shows.
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Giuliani's net favorability rating — the proportion of people viewing him favorably minus the proportion viewing him unfavorably — was 56 percent, well ahead of Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), 32 percent, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 26 percent, in the University of New Hampshire poll for WMUR-TV in Manchester.
"He's the lesser-known candidate, but he has that rock star quality," poll director Andy Smith said of Giuliani. "He has a charisma that was built after 9-11."
This long before an election, political professionals pay more attention to favorability than voters' choices if they had to vote today. McCain and Giuliani were essentially tied at about 27 percent on that question among likely GOP primary voters, followed by Romney at 13 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 9 percent.
The GOP portion of the telephone poll reached 311 likely voters from Thursday to Monday and had an error margin of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points.
Former Sen. John Edwards and Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) had net favorability ratings ranging from 61 percent to 55 percent, too close to be statistically significant.
When asked for whom they would vote, 35 percent of likely Democratic voters picked Clinton, 21 percent Obama and 15 percent Edwards. Eight percent chose former Vice President Al Gore, who is not running.
The Democratic portion of the phone poll reached 353 likely voters and had an error margin of plus or minus 5.2 percentage points.
Independents may vote in either primary, and 68 percent of them indicated they planned to vote in the Democratic primary compared to 32 percent leaning toward the GOP contest.
"This will hurt Republican candidates who try to appeal to more moderate, independent voters," Smith said.
The same applies for any other politician -- including the distinguished President Reagan.
IIRC Firemen supported Rudy also.
Sure! Welcome! :-)
Homosexuality was a crime in the Soviet Union from 1933 till it collapsed.
Yes, there's some activity on the NH message board, as well as a couple of Duncan Hunter supporters. It's still pretty early to plunge into supporting a presidential candidate, though, and I'm sure things will heat up in the fall.
He publicly supported his good friend Rock Hudson in his bout with AIDS. Reagan cared for everyone, including "homos", because he was probably the most decent man we ever had as President who never hated anyone in his life.
Thx!
You're 100% wrong.
If you really support any candidate OTHER than the main triumverate you literally need to sell your house, home, wife and kids and give that money to the candidate NOW. I'm only 25% joking about that.
I've been pointing out for weeks and now you're seeing articles talking about the incredible front-loading of the primaries and how short the primary campaign will be and how money-dependent it will be.
They are issues important enough to Republicans to be in the Party Platform. Giuliani disagrees with the party and the platform on the majority of issues. His divorces, in this context, are irrelevant as they are not in the Democrat or Republican party platforms to which I'm comparing Giuliani's views.
Reagan was a wonderful human being -- perhaps the greatest, kindest and certainly most compassionate President we ever had -- but he was a human being. Like all of us, he had his flaws -- he just had fewer than most of us.
Since she had already stated that it was tongue in cheek, I don't know why you think it was serious. Why are you trying to make in into a major incident?
Fine, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense for predicting outcome, which is the topic of this thread.
And here I thought you were one of those 11th commandment type of guys.
Come on. Spiff`s chart doesn't obfuscate the truth about Rudy and Hillary. It exposes Rudy for being as liberal as Hillary is, more in tune with the politics of the Democratic Party then the GOP. Party platforms have meaning. Can't ignore Rudy`s entire political career as a liberal. That is just asking for trouble.
Actually, if social conservatives turn their back on Giuliani, it will be a disastrous outcome.
Oh, that's rich. Reagan never had both houses controlled by the GOP. Is there NO BOTTOM to the political depravity the Rudy boosters will engage in?
You of course managed to miss the entire point of his post.
Most interesting article.
Come on. I didn't say anything of the sort. You're reading what you want into what I wrote.
I see we're continuing to add new people! And I saw two comments just today from people who said they weren't sure about Rudy but when they read the ugliness posted by the same people who posted crap about Bush, they decided that enough was enough.
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