Posted on 02/22/2007 7:09:41 AM PST by meg88
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani got good and bad news from the Quinnipiac Poll.
The good news: He beats Senator Hillary Clinton, 48% to her 43% in a national poll conducted last week.
The bad news: It's still over 18 months to go until Election 2008.
Quinnipiac drilled down to the red, blue and purple state level: Giuliani beats Clinton 55-38 in states that voted Republican in the 2004 election.
Interestingly, he ties her 46-46 in the blue states, while it's close in "purple states" (where the "margin in 2004 was less than 7%) - Giuliani has 44% while Clinton has 45%. Here are some more matchups:
- Senator John McCain edges Clinton, 46 - 44 percent
- Clinton tops former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 49 - 37 percent;
- Giuliani beats Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 47 - 40 percent;
- Giuliani tops 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards 48 - 40 percent;
- McCain ties Obama 43 - 43 percent;
- McCain gets 43 percent to Edward's 42 percent, a tie;
- Obama tops Romney 49 - 29 percent;
- Edwards beats Romney 48 - 32 percent.
Giuliani would win a Republican primary with 40% of Republican primary voters supporting him over McCain who would get just 18%, while Clinton would win a primary with 38% over Obama (23%). Furthermore, the Quinnipiac poll shows that Giuliani has the highest favorability rating of all candidates, with 57%, which Clinton has 46%, McCain has 51% and Obama has 44% (notably, 40% don't know enough about Obama to form an opinion.
Yesterday, Mayor Giuliani was campaigning in South Carolina. On the news last night, WNBC's Melissa Russo noted something unusual: While the crowds were very friendly to Giuliani, even reporters (from Southern papers) asked Giuliani to take pictures with him.
Because I, like Rudy, believe in a conservative use of federal power. I'm a conservative -- the "ant" to a liberal's "grasshopper".
And your insistence that since I'm pro-choice I'm a liberal is simply funny. :-)
By the way, Giuliani fails many conservative litmus test issues, not just the unalienable right to life. He's an enemy of the Second Amendment, a proponent of open borders, and a bosom buddy of the gay activists who are trying to remake American society in their depraved image. Can you say, "LOSER?"
Gawd, you are tiresome in your deliberate obstinance. Pro-life Dems have repeatedly crossed over and voted for pro-life pubbies. THAT IS A FACT. If the pubbie is not pro-life, they have no reason to cross over on that issue. THAT IS A FACT.
2) Rudy is percieved as having skills and experiences that many Ds will prefer over Hillys. Therefore they will vote for Rudy.
Please show ANY polls that support that. And also show how Dems and Indies will overcome their increasingly anti-war sentiments and vote for pro-war Rudy.
Being deliberately ignorant is no way to determine a winner.
My guy is seated. Sorry to hear you couldn't hold up your end.
The 2nd Ammend argument doesn't seem to be true. Rudy does not seem to be a gun-grabber across the board. And I personally think licensing does make sense. That's not gun control any more than drivers' licenses restrict who can have a car.
I could give a hoot less about gays.
Unfortunately, the borders issue seems a lost cause. Heck, I voted for Bush twice, so clearly that's not a deal-breaker for me!
Dominic, some here are already admitting they'd rather lose and give our country to Hillary/Obama than vote for an imperfect GOP candidate.
THEN this amazing conservative White Knight will be coming over the hill, just you wait and see, it's just GOTTA happen!!! Until then let's just let America go Communist, who cares!
New tagline...
Across the board? What kind of nonsense is that? Is that akin to half an abortion?
"Elect Rudy or America will go communist!" There's one more for the "Rutard" file...
Well like I told you, you certainly didn't help. I specifically remember arguing that the continued attacks on Senator Allen would not help his reelection campaign. I was correct.
I'd be interested to know how many of your candidates were 1) seriously contested and 2) targeted by Soros, Hillary and The Washington Post.
Who ~were~ your candidates last year?
And FWIW, you can't blame Speaker Pelosi on Virginia. The remainder of our candidates won.
No, sir, that's your opinion, and one in denial of the facts.
There *are* reasons for them to cross. Reasons you keep ignoring, refusing to respond to.
I ask again, do you at all recognize Rudy's strength as "the man that cleaned up NYC"?
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This is a fascinating situation, I've never quite seen anything like it. These folks are insisting this vote be a referrendum on Abortion.
Which, I believe, is a clear loser at the polls.
Not to mention, if they feel this way about pro-choice folks, what about all of us pro-choice Rs? Do we belong in the same party?
My god. Your Orwellian reversal of the truth is complete. PRO-LIFE CATHOLIC DEMS WERE A KEY SWING VOTE FOR BUSH IN 2004 IN OHIO. YOU CANNOT DENY THAT AWAY.
There *are* reasons for them to cross. Reasons you keep ignoring, refusing to respond to.
Where did I say there were no others? There are pro-gun crossovers. Rudy won't get those. But you think Rudy can run left as a pro-war pubbie and pull in gobs of Dems and Indies, even though the antiwar sentiment grows dramatically with even a slight leftward movement. You are delusional.
I ask again, do you at all recognize Rudy's strength as "the man that cleaned up NYC"?
Not in a national election.
My main candidate was continuously attacked by RINOs like you, clear through the General Election. He was constantly savaged by the Democrat Media, which had the advantage of possessing the intemperate remarks of said RINOs in their arsenal. That same Media carried water for the lying Democrat nominee throughout the campaign, falsely painting him as a "moderate" when he was and is no such thing. Same tactics used throughout the country. And we beat it.
No wonder. I've been debating an admitted pro-choice pubbie. I can see why you cannot comprehend that some Dems care enough about this issue to cross party lines to vote for a pro-life pubbie. I see this was a complete waste of time. Later, and good luck living in your alternate universe.
Big giant cities have unique problems, NYC gun laws make sense to me.
I do not believe he would apply the same rules to rural Texas.
And your candidate's name was?
If you don't want to post it publicly (understandable that names could be traced to campaigns) you can freepmail me. I'd really like to know.
I'll have to add that one to my Field Guide to Rudy Booster manual I am working. The damn Rudy boosters spit out the talking points faster than I can compile and analyze them.
More evidence that we simply don't need the knee-jerk Unappeasable crowd to win this thing.
In fact, we appear to gain more by jettisoning them than we do by caving in to their demands.
They want to sit out? Fine. Let 'em. Just don't expect any consideration if Guiliani becomes President.
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