Poll Shows Giuliani Love Across the Country (Rudy Beats All Dem Candidates by at Least 5%)

Gothamist.com ^ | 2.22.07 | Mary Ann Chastain

[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.

[dirtboy]

But it does get a bit tiresome when we're called names just because your candidate(s) are somewhere between the excitement level of oatmeal and cream of wheat.

What I think of Rudy has nothing to do with who I am supporting, and everything to do with the fact that I think he has a very good chance of winning the nomination because of the newly-front-loaded schedule. And then would turn around and relive the glory days of 1992, for very similar reasons.

I am well aware that Hunter faces an uphill fight. And there could still be someone else to enter the race with a better chance. But for now, I look at the lists of candidates in both parties and are largely underwhelmed. It's rather pathetic that, at a crossroads in this country's history, that we cannot come up with a better slate.

[Peach]

More heard from the whining section of Free Republic.

You remind me of a kid "Mommy, mommy. Help. She likes a Republican I don't like".

You don't even have the good sense to be embarrassed.

[dirtboy]

More heard from the whining section of Free Republic.

This from someone who started all this by whining about Free Republic.

[dirtboy]

You don't even have the good sense to be embarrassed.

You apparently don't have the sense of shame required to even have a SHOT at being embarassed.

[Delphinium]

You are so funny and cute:-) Did you watch the movie, "Mean Girls"? You might learn a few more things to use in your club.

[OldFriend]

I'll try not to laugh.

[OMalley]

"mean girls"? No I havent, but I might have to LOL

Seems there are an aweful lot of women on this site. Just about everyone I thought was male turns out to be female! hard to tell with nicknames anymore.

Whachya mean my club? am i a "mean girl" ? WHA! ;)

[nopardons]

Awwwwwwwwwwww....you're supposed to be an adult; adult don't still behave as though they are in middle school and not in the "IN" group, when they are incapable or unwilling to engage in factual debate.

What has a teen movie ( that I've never seen, let alone heard of ) have to do with political debate? Using such mindless twaddle as refutation, doesn't help you. Instead of personal attacks, try to stick to the topic of the thread.

[Delphinium]

I'm almost 50. I grew up in the holiness movement and fundamentalism. I came into politics a strong proponent of the religious right agenda.

That is probably your problem, too much religion.

you and the other "true Christian conservatives" do have a sort of stand on the street corner to pray approach about things.

What makes you think any of us do that? OH, you must be talking about freeping? I've done that.

Well I am 52, grew up in a jack-Mormon family. My dad hated religious phonies for good reason. Started drinking at 11, smoking pot at 13. Marched against the vietnam war at 14, and 15, which gave me a real life experience with socialists, perverted, and immoral lifestyles etc. I saw clearly that that lifestyle leads to bondage , not freedom. Since then I have grown to understand more fully how true that is, one of the main reasons I fight it so hard.

The Lord miraculously saved my life when I was a young woman, and I don't need to go into the whole sorted story. I learned to follow the right way by making mistakes going the wrong way.

It's just that, as I've gotten older and spent more time in my own study of the Word, I've realized God is so much bigger than the box so many wish to put Him in.

You are so right. God is a very big God, and there is no searching His understanding. His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. But His thoughts and Ways are written in the Bible, that is how we know them. THe Bible is our road map to abundant life. You either believe it, or you don't.

Religion is often an enemy to God. "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."

[dirtboy]

I'll try not to laugh.

Hey, his guy won. Did better than a lot of the establishment GOP types that lost - you know, your kind of pubbies.

[dirtboy]

Using such mindless twaddle as refutation, doesn't help you. Instead of personal attacks, try to stick to the topic of the thread.

Nothing like following up a personal attack with a demand to not engage in stuff.

Y'all are outdoing yourself in the irony department tonight. Too bad you can't seem to grasp irony.

[Delphinium]

Watch the movie it'll make you laugh, unless ofcourse you relate to the "mean girls". There is lots of movies with that type portrayed, you know like in junior high? When girls think they are the queens of the school, and have cute little put downs for anyone who isn't in their club, but in reality they have a very small exclusive group of snob friends who'd stab them in the back at first chance, just to think they are higher.

No Omalley you are definiely not a "mean girl", but I bet your tuff.

[Delphinium]

Oh no, youve hurt my feelings now. You questioned my values, :-)

[Jhensy]

Whether you are stupid or not, I do not know. But claiming that communism will be the result of a no vote on Rudy IS a stupid comment. Of that I'm sure.

Look, here's what I wrote (which BTW wasn't directed to you, as you know):

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!

You see, there's a thing called dramatic license.... a little use of hyperbole and exaggeration to make a point. Believe it or not, those two sentences weren't intended to be a FACTUAL REPRESENTATION of reality. I didn't LITERALLY mean your candidate would be riding a white horse over a mountain to campaign events, or that Hillary's first act would be to replace the Stars and Stripes with the hammer and sickle.

(You getting this, or should I type slower?)

Next time, don't extrapolate too much from what a fellow Freeper has to say. Settle down before you brand someone a retard, a disgusting insult.

[b9]

Hmm... who to believe?

I'll take the one who knows to capitalize 'God' and 'Bible.'
Little things mean a lot.

[My2Cents]

Fart off the starboard side and you're toast. :-)

[Jim Robinson]

Can you imagine the Founding Fathers writing the right of abortion into the Constitution? They carefully and passionately debated each and every clause, phrase and word. What a debate it must've been. Pro life vs pro death. Wonder which side James Madison, George Washington and Ben Franklin came down on? Funny that we see so much written about the debates at the Constitutional Convention on most other issues, wonder why the original debate on abortion was held in such secrecy and why none of the founders ever wrote about it? Especially since they did write a lot about the rest of the debates and of their abiding faith in God, life and liberty?

[EternalVigilance]

Funny that we see so much written about the debates at the Constitutional Convention on most other issues, wonder why the original debate on abortion was held in such secrecy and why none of the founders ever wrote about it? Especially since they did write a lot about the rest of the debates and of their abiding faith in God, life and liberty?

Well, that one's fairly easy to answer. The fact is there was nothing to debate. There wasn't a soul in attendance who was so debased in mind and spirit that they would even dream that butchering babies could even be a possibility in the "shining city on a hill."

[HairOfTheDog]

I love that argument that gun control cut down on crime as if every criminal just turned them over. Stupidest thing ive EVER heard. When I live in WA we had home break ins all the time, no mater which city I lived in. Here its extremely rare. WHY? because everyone is armed to the teeth. buglars may be thieves, but they arent stupid;)

There's no oppressive gun control to speak of in Washington State. I've lived here all my life. If people have chosen to not be armed, it's not because of the laws here.

[nopardons]

It is IMPERATIVE that we beat the Dem candidate in '08.

You aren't going to be able to find an 100% Conservative, acceptable to not only everyone here on FR, but appealing to the majority of the American populace, who has the ability to beat whichever person gets the Dem nod for '08 in the known GOP field and NO, such a person is NOT going to suddenly appear, out of nowhere, either. Hanging on to that "dream" is just going to cause you a lot of heartache and pain.

The MSM is NOT "picking" the GOP candidate and the polls, though early days, gives all of us a view into where ALL Americans are right now. If you'd prefer to ignore them, then do so; some of us really do want to see what they all say.

The president of the USA isn't a king, emperor, dictator, the Pope, or a "magical genie" who will grant YOU every wish and heart desire. What do you believe that a president CAN do, to "get this country back on the right track" and what EXACTLY is this "track" to you?