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.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
Did you see #466
I have to thank Rudy for that one....:)
You forgot supporting strict constructionist judges :)
So should EVERYONE! :-)
Oops. I missed that one. Oh well, great minds think alike :)
Heck, I can't list EVERYTHING! LOL
Well, yes, it would be a long list :)
I do believe you're the first freeper that I have called a liar in 9 years of freeping. I personally would prefer to see you not get banned because you are proving to be so useful to the Hunter campaign, but that's just my viewpoint. It was fascinating to see JimRob post to you that you should acknowledge you're a liberal. Best of luck in your baiting Jim, we'll see how that goes.
Thoughtful people are not likely to support a man with no foreign policy experience, no military experience either in civilian leadership or as a member, and no intelligence experience to lead us in the war against the terrorists...
Of course, idiots ( not 'thoughtful people') are the majority in any election so I'm not ruling Rudy out yet! Many people do know his name, and his present favorable poll numbers ar not to be sneezed at .
But he has even more negatives than just his well-documented liberalism to overcome. The longer he waits to renounce his liberalism and start addressing his other shortcomings the more his campaign looks like a disaster on the way.
'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
***When the pitcher starts aiming at your head, you start looking at things a little bit differently. At that point, your analogy falls short. For those millions of dead babies, they're getting hit in the head by the pitcher. Their batting average is zero. Once you average that into your team batting average, you'll see why the equation looks different from that perspective.
More likely is he's one of the few Republican wannabes who would actually lose to Hillary. He agrees with her across the board on half the issues. Apparently you are saying if Giuliani runs on abortion rights, gay rights, gun control, global warming, illegal immigration, he'll pickup more liberal, democrat and swing votes than he loses to the Christian right and right-wing conservatives?
But I've got to ask why you think liberals, Democrats and the too dumb to vote crowd would vote for him when he's FOR the WAR in IRAQ and FOR the Bush TAX CUTS? Huh? They're not going to vote for the half man half liberal when they can get the WHOLE HOG with Hillary.
"***When the pitcher starts aiming at your head, you start looking at things a little bit differently. At that point, your analogy falls short. For those millions of dead babies, they're getting hit in the head by the pitcher. Their batting average is zero. Once you average that into your team batting average, you'll see why the equation looks different from that perspective."
Your understanding of political realities fall short. we have a pro-life President now but we are still having abortions. No president has the power to stop abortion. Rudy has already said he supports strict constructionist judges like John Roberts. He constantly praised the President for appointing Roberts and Alito. On Hannity Rudy said I think the appointment of judges that I would make would be very similar to, if not exactly the same as, the last two judges that were appointed. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire. If I had been president over the last four years, I can't think of any, you know, that I'd do anything different with that. Assuming Rudy gets elected President and appoints Roberts-like justices then maybe Roe v. Wade will get overturned. But even if it does get overturned we know that this wont stop all abortions. The abortion issue would then revert back to the states and does anyone really think California would outlaw abortions? Thus being pragmatic in our thinking we all know we can't completely stop abortions. Therefore voting solely on this issue very unpragmatic. I hate abortions like everyone else on here but I realize that regardless of how many pro-life presidents we elect, its just not going to stop.
Rudy will lose very little of the Religious Right. And what he does lose he will pick up many more times in independents, moderates, and consevative Democrats.
There's a long way between now and November '08, but Hunter has an awful lot of ground to make up in that time. Can he raise the money to raise his profile?
In a three-way race Hillary will win. A good conservative "R" nominee will thwart that old Clinton strategy.
Yesterday from Quinnipiac http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1019
Go find the Rudy-Hillary one on one break down. That says it all.
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