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.
I guess that makes you an "Appeaser," eh?
LOL!!! What a histrionic idiot!
Jettison away, then. Good luck with that.
The fact that you think you actually hold so much sway is almost endearing, in a pitiful sort of way. Almost.
Nah, it would make more sense to call yourself a RINO.
I'm calling you and your fellow Unappeasables winguts.
Ah, so because we won't foresake a wide range of conservative positions, we are unappeasables.
Actually, it means we're not sellouts like you.
We should call them Vichy Republicans. The Rockefeller types weren't this bad.
If it comes to that matchup, I hope you're right.
Actually, the discussion dirtboy and I was having was, "will D's crossover and vote Rudy?"
So the fact that Oprah gave this moniker to him would be a very useful piece of data indeed. Thanks.
What's the date on that quote? Probably pre-9/11. It's a different world now. Giuliani gets that. Hitlery does not.
Everybody wants to get their picture taken with "the next big thing", before he becomes even bigger.
Yeah, I'm a sellout. LOL.
Along with the near majority of GOP primary voters who have indicated a preference for Guiliani.
Right.
Everyone's a sellout. Except you. And EternalVigilance. Keep the faith!
I'm just one guy out here in flyover country. But I do know Christian conservatives. And you can take this to the bank: When they are fully aware (and they will be made so) that the GOP is going pro-abort, pro-gungrabbing, pro-homo agenda, pro-open borders, they will vote with their feet.
Some things haven't changed. Giuliani is still a liberal.
He may not be everyone's top choice, but at least they're not salting the earth like you and Dirtboy.
So, you're saying that the terrorists killed conservatism?
According to you, *all* pro-choice folks are 'liberals', right?
True! The contrast between Bush's support for Specter two years ago in the Senatorial election, and how Santorum was left hanging dry, was striking. However, Santorum was so far behind in the polls, and the MSM campaign against him so hammering for the past several years, that there was no chance of him bouncing back, and the state GOP made the decision to cut off funds to a losing campaign.
Well, God save the Republic from such ingoramuses. Are they getting their information from you?
The Clinton quote was 1996. Before Giliani endorsed Dole.
LOL. Spoken like a true Unappeasable.
Keep on playing, little boy. The grown-ups are trying to elect a President.
Yes they are. They are oblivious to the most fundamental principle of the American republic: the protection of the weak and innocent.
Ask them how they feel about Giuliani's "firm support" of Partial Birth Abortion. Then ask them if they're OK with Giuliani.
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