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.
Right, it says "state" -- that means state government. The 14th says nothing about what individuals may or may not do.
"Due process of law" consists of a fair trial on a capital offense.
You're grasping at straws here, same as you were above. The 5th Amendment constrains government, not individuals.
If you want abortion banned nationally, amend the Constitution. Quit acting like a liberal and mistaking your policy preference for a Constitutional mandate.
Funny, I thought they were polling potential voters, not members of the media.
First, the Constitution already protects life. It really doesn't need to be amended. But some people are too politically brainwashed to recognized that an unborn child is a human life. So, the Human Life Amendment was proposed which would amend the Constitution to provide a definition of human life to end further confusion. Endorsement of the passage of the Human Life Amendment is in the Republican Party Platform and has been there for decades. Look it up.
Nah. You're not missing anything. The right to life is there, repeatedly. Unfortunately, our legal and political class these days lack basic reading comprehension skills.
But they can sure detect those toxic emanations and penumbras...
ROFLMAO!!
Speaking of emanations and penumbras...
First of all we are not Libs. We are Republicans - we vote straight Republican. And you calling us libs does not make us one. I see you are still judging people. And Jim doesn't need to be pinged every time we say something that ticks you or anyone off. I'm sure he's reading every Rudy thread here because he's NOT a Rudy fan so no need to cry to him every single time.
You seem to have the reading comprehension skills of an attorney. Are you one?
Wow. Emanations all over the place. Phew!
Why has it been there for decades with so little action on it? Why is there always all kinds of noise and lip service before elections, we're told it's vital everyone from the president to his cabinet be pro life... and we have elected all kinds of pro life candidates but nothing ever happens on it? I'm quite serious. We always hear what a vital issue a candidate's stand on abortion is... This time we're practically being bashed on the head with it... WHY?
Most candidates would rather die than talk about abortion, and once elected, they won't touch it with a ten foot pole. I think this is true on both sides. Even nominees to the supreme court... the guys we've been told are ones who might ever do anything to overturn abortion, must pretend they've never really thought about it and would only consider it if it's brought before them sometime. So I'm tired of it being the main source of noise and distraction during campaigns, when in reality, nothing ever happens on it anyway.
Abortion is a Red Herring. No one elected today will ever do a thing about it, Just like they haven't in the last decades they've claimed to care about it. We've had a pro-life president and a pro-life majority for most of the last 8, and there was only a little bit of actual action, and not much came of it. Oh - and we got two more guys appointed to the Supreme Court who were able to convince Congress that they hadn't made up their mind but *wink* *wink* *nod* *nod* "I'm with you". IMHO, the momentum to end abortion is more likely to come about because of advances in medicine, not because of anything weak, poll-watching elected leaders (and they all are) will ever do.
So, you think individuals have a right to alienate unalienable rights?
If you're not liberals, then you are "Wrong Way Corrigan" conservatives.
And that is your opinion. We are all welcome to them.
So, do you think any of the 50 states could constitutionally legalize murder?
Well, in substance you're the same, and it doesn't have anything to do with formal education.
Deep down decency is neither unattainable nor old fashioned.
Demanding it of our politicians is essential ~ they are only a reflection of the folks who pull their levers.
"So, this is more important than finding a Real Conservative candidate that can get this country back on track?"
The Real Conservatives are in the polls, right there for anybody to pick. Apparently few do pick them.
Some have washed out, too. Frist and Allen, probably Condi too.
Mike Pence was really being talked up not long ago. But one slip--he actually wanted a compromise immigration bill, and "real conservatives" cooled totally on him.
There is simply not an endless supply of candidates, let alone "good" or "great" candidates.
Always remember FR is NOT reflective of the electorate, or even Republican primary voters.
Finally, "a Real Conservative candidate that can get this country back on track" has to first get nominated and then elected.
So while doing the "finding" don't overlook the "elected" aspect. The angry conservative is not in vogue.
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