Posted on 02/15/2007 6:29:17 AM PST by DBCJR
New York Democrats and Republicans have clear hometown favorites - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani - for their parties' 2008 presidential nominations, a statewide poll reported yesterday.
But when it comes to a possible 2008 political subway series between the two, New Yorkers give the nod, 50 percent to 40 percent, to Democrat Clinton over the former New York City mayor, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey reported.
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Clinton and Giuliani were expected to face each other in 2000 when she first ran for the Senate in her adopted home of New York. But the mayor withdrew from the race to deal with prostate cancer and a failing marriage. Clinton defeated then-Rep. Rick Lazio and won easy re-election last year.
In the poll, Clinton was the choice of 47 percent of Democratic voters, followed by Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois at 16 percent, former Vice President Al Gore at 11 percent and former Sen. John Edwards at 7 percent. Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential race, has said he has no plans to run again.
Fifty-one percent of New York's Republican voters favored Giuliani for the GOP nomination, according to the poll, followed by Sen. John McCain of Arizona at 17 percent. No other Republican contender broke into double digits.
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Whew...I am relieved to see we needn't worry 'cause, as Freepers point out, Quinnipiac is lefty, polls are biased, everyone hates Republicans. Don't believe polls!
I remember taking great comfort from those same thoughts last October, too.
How'd that work out?
Yeah but Bill Schneider on CNN says Rudy has the BIG MO. LOL!
I keep telling everyone that will listen, there's NO way Hillary will lose NY, not even to Rudy. NEVER
What is Rudy Giuliani’s stance on abortion?
NY will never go Repub again. Long Island used to be heavy Republican...no longer. All that's left is Upstate, and those folks believe Hillary's the answer to all their woes.
I hear you and I am a woman! A good friend of mine was complaining about how her sister and mother want to vote for hill because she's a woman. And that's it she is a woman. Why would anymore vote foe anyone just because of gender and nothing else,or the fact that their black and that's it. No platform nothing they believe in.
Certainly Regan in '84. Don't know about Bush in '88.
What is Rudy Giuliani’s stance on abortion?
Pro-choice but recently coming out strong against partial birth abortion. Purely a strategic straddle, like for gay unions, against Gay marriage.
When did last time a Republican run competitively in NY for a presidential race?
I think you have to go back to Governor Rockefeller in the 60's, himself an NY Governor, favorite son, but too liberal for the party of Barry Goldwater.
There always seems to be something wrong
with a poll people disagree with.
Screw the polls, especially one sponsored by the liberal rag Newsday; almost two years before the election. What are we to do, roll over and hail Queen Hillary?
What are we to do, roll over and hail Queen Hillary?
Did I say THAT?
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