Posted on 02/24/2007 8:56:14 AM PST by FairOpinion
Rudy PING-O!
This is an online survey, so it is not a "scientific" sample.
Yep, that's liberal RINO-rudy...
a LEADER OF DEMOCRATS with their LIBERAL AGENDA.
I think the Ras poll showed Hilly with 48% negative rating, too. That's an unusually strong problem to overcome, even with two years left before the election.
How many Congressman have been elected directly to the White House? I googled and I could not find the answer.
This is a survey of business people.
The polls I posted in my post 1 are "scientific polls", Rassmussen and the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute and show basically the same thing.
Even some dims that I know can't stand her.
"How many Congressman have been elected directly to the White House? I googled and I could not find the answer."
Someone posted the detailed history of how many of them ran for president, but none were elected.
"I assure you, business leaders are not stupid. They, like Freepers, know all the candidates well."
look at the question itself. "Who should the Republicans pick as their 2008 presidential candidate?"
This was asked in portland, a liberal city.
Not "who would you vote for". Who should the republicans pick.
So you get a cityide poll in a liberal city on who a liberal leaning audience thinks the republicans should run in 2008.
They pick the most liberal one. Is that shocking?
Some people need to have their heads check. Every rinky dink poll is major news. In 2004 freepers jumped when bush jumped in the polls and were ready to jump off of buildings when kerry went up. And the exit polls were so bad with the chicken littles and politically ignorant that FR actually had to ban posting exit polls because the gullible couldn't handle the news.
But hell, why not. I think every time there is a poll on a race 22 months out held in bob's diner off route 43 in BFE we should have a major post about it on the board.
how many people have gone from being mayor (not even mentioning it is 5 years after) to the white house?
And he is not "america's mayor". The only thing he was mayor of was one of the most liberal cities in the country.
stop dreaming newt won't run.
Newt supports Rudy. He didn't specifically say that, but Newt did say that he won't enter the race, if Rudy is leading, which is a de facto endorsement.
That said, HE'S ANTI-GUN RIGHTS. No vote for Rudy here.
What do you mean Rudy is our best shot. In what way is Rudy a Republican? He's for gun control, homosexual unions, and his personal history, is to say the least, messy.
How is Rudy any different from say...Chris Dodd, with the possible exception of the Iraq issue, and I'm not sure about that.
Rudy is what passes for the GOP in New York or Massachsetts, in Red State America he's just another liberal.
Seriously? So at the local convenience store, there are gas jockeys? Amazing! There is one place here locally that does that and everyone considers it "quaint"...
"How many Congressman have been elected directly to the White House?"
At least one, which is one more than the number of mayors who have been elected president.
Reality? Well, Fairopinion, here's reality.
Rudy will win the California primary. Rudy will lose about half the midwestern primaries, and most of those in the deep south. He'll probably win New York and Florida.
Whether this will be enough to take the nomination I can't say.
What *will* happen in the general election...2/5ths of the party will vote for Rudy. 2/5ths of the party will vote for the Constitution Party. The remaining fifth will split it's vote between supporting Rudy out of fear and staying home. These are just facts based on what Conservatives have done in the past 2 or 3 election cycles.
If you think that you will be able to install Rudy in the White House and get the social liberal agenda you so strongly support with 2/5ths of Republican voters committed going elsewhere, go for it. If not, how about dropping his candidacy and becoming a Democrat?
By the way, if 10-15 million people pull the Constitution Party lever, think about what this means in terms of federal funds going to that party and the future of the GOP.
That's reality. Rudy Giuliani doesn't have a prayer of winning a general election, and you know this well despite the false hope provided by the various push polls you people roll out.
I support everything that "this administration" has done, especially in Iraq, and the appointment of conservative justices to the Supreme Court.
But remember as was Reagan, Mitt has not always been Pro-Life, and who did we get on the Supreme Court from Reagan? O’Connor, Kennedy, not the most blue of the Justices, but it was the Bush family that gave us C.J. Roberts, J. Scalia, J. Thomas, J. Alito. Unfortunately we also got Souter, and we can't blame that on Harvard since even the most conservative justices graduated from there as well.
When Hunter rings up his first 100 million dollars for his campaign, let me know; I might be interested.
It's going to take a huge, obscene, amount of money to get elected this time.
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