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.
The post of the day.
You've said it all in one concise sentence.
- John
Your support of the current president, now, is irrelevant and beside the point I was making.
"So you're selling your Ideology for a Liberal to be elected as a Republican?"
I said nothing of the kind. You appear to have trouble with reading comprehension.
Go back and read my post again.
Great post!!!
The main reason for having a Bill of Rights is to make sure that all Americans, no matter what state they live in, have their unalienable rights protected.
Depends what state you're in. What's defined as justifiable homicide in one state would be defined as murder in another state.
The death penalty is not murder.
In some states it is.
Sometimes homicide is murder, sometimes it isn't, and the rules vary from state to state. Don't like your state's laws, either change them or move to another state. Just don't pretend the Constitution *requires* your state to have the *specific* laws *you* just happen to prefer.
Btw, "murder" is normally understood to mean the *unlawful* killing of another, so talking about legal murder (which means legal unlawful killing) is just another oxymoron.
I almost think from your tagline that you might not be supporting Rudy. You're gonna make the Rudybots start bawling if you're so mean.
Well, for starters, Rudy is more known than any other candidate on either side except maybe Hillary. And we remember his steady leadership in a crisis fondly. That goes a long way. In contrast, practically no one outside FR even knows who Hunter is. I couldn't pick him out of a lineup and I DO hang out at a political forum all day. Maybe that will change, but that's how it is now. He doesn't seem "national candidate" ready.
Hey - I might think the best candidate would be my dad. But all the votes of all the people who know him just might not be enough to win.
Glad someone got something out of it, because I didn't get it.
People didn't want to accept the polls last fall and looked what happened.
Put another way,
All Your Cultural Marxists Are Belong To PBA
Look!
We can take Rudy till 2012,deal w/PBA w/Jeb 2016.
Done.
Okay, if a ban on PBA is so universally obviously wrong and indefensible, why did it take so long to be passed and why was that all they've managed to accomplish? I mean really!
I think as a practical matter, PBA represents such a small number of abortions in this country it's a statistical non issue. It's equivalent to peeing on a forest fire, so forgive me if I don't give them credit for progress. Politicians have shown themselves to be not interested in really stopping abortions. So I'm tired of getting bashed over the head for not seeing it as very relevant in elections. It's a non starter.
No, that's not correct. The Bill of Rights was a restraint on the national government. It didn't restrain the states at all.
I could agree with you on that.
No, just know too many religious zealots who try to tell me that their way is God's way.
The eventual Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States of America will gain instant name recognition throughout America and around the world. And seeing as how all conservatives and all broken glass Republicans will support him to the hilt, he'll be rolling in the dough and the volunteers. The grassroots will mobilize behind him. A traditional true blue American conservative will beat the socks off Hillary or Obama, et al, without the doubts of losing the Christian right or other conservatives that cannot stomach Rudy's abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, gun grabbing, illegal immigration loving ways. Might as well go for the full blooded conservative vs the half liberal.
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