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.
We'll see who ends up on the ticket... And I'll vote for him. I'm just one chick after all. Like I said above, what I'm most tired of in this debate is the nasty tone that's been permitted here. The people being attacked are good people who like a candidate who happens to currently be the frontrunner. They aren't crazy, they aren't stupid, they aren't wicked, for liking a guy a lot of people seem to like right now. And I'm not going to spend the next year kicking and spitting and badmouthing other Republicans. It turns more people off than on. Just please consider that.
As for the election, may the best man win... and may it not be Hillary. That's all I have to say about that. :~)
Might as well go for the full blooded conservative
***That would be Duncan Hunter.
I do it because I think you're a disruptor. I think probably a phony, just trying to play an embarrassing caricature, but its conceivable that you're simply a really stinky voice on the fringe of the right. Regardless of the two, you do more harm than good/
You're a whiner, leave JR outta it.
EXCELLENT point!
The only thing I might add, however, is IF he is ELECTABLE. Without that, we got nada.
...worse than nada...we get HillObama....
LISTEN about the Quinnipiac Poll. Its biased. Its a leftwing, liberal poll run by a left-wing liberal Democrat who weighs his poll questions to elicit the answers he wishes to get. He has an agenda and obviously one of his items to get Giuliani nominated as the latter is a social liberal like him.
I KNOW. They polled me.
I also know the pollster - one Mr. Carroll, has a son who is a politically diametric opposite - an anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-tax and spend conservative in the New Jersey State Assembly, Michael Patrick Carroll.
I'm so glad to see you on this thread. Your outrageous behavior sends freepers into the Duncan Hunter camp faster than anything we have been able to do. Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Tell your compatriots, here, to lose the insults! They're the ones who hurl them with abandon.
I suppose GOPers all across the fruited plain are RINOs.
Attempting to copy me, just isn't working for you. I suggest that you try to come up with your own words.
Good grief. Like your hands are clean or what?
And they will until he gets the nomination.
If he will beat any democrat by 5%, then the dems should draft him as their candidate. He would fit in perfectly!
"Electable" gave us Bob Dole as the Republican candidate. Supporting the conservative right-wing kook gave us President Reagan. I rest my case.
What these threads could use is a good does of MALE influence. And of course some HUMOR.
***There's already 2 O'Malleys on the thread. Any more and it could get downright silly.
I guess the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 was passed without Clinton's signature. And Clinton didn't veto two PBA bans either.
Any more nonsense you wish to spread? Those Rudy talking points are getting stale.
As opposed to your "Archie Bunker"?
How many screen names you got, grunt? How many have you posted with today?
Good point! Do we have an experienced governor running? (On our side...) I am partial to executives who have run states or large municipalities...not Senators or House members. So, for me, that leaves Romney and Giuliani.
(Alas!...what Jeb could have been....hope he will be down the road....)
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