Posted on 03/05/2007 10:22:20 AM PST by Sunsong
Pennsylvania may just have given the Republican Party, and Rudy Giuliani in particular, some desperately needed good news. It came in the form of polling results provided by the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin and Marshall College.
The Keystone Poll found that if Pennsylvania residents decided today among the leading 2008 presidential contenders, either Giuliani or Sen. John McCain would defeat either Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. Giuliani leads Clinton 53 percent to 37 percent, and he leads Obama 52 percent to 32 percent. McCain trumps Clinton 45 percent to 41 percent and Obama 43 percent to 37 percent. Those are startling findings, since 46 percent of Pennsylvania respondents told the pollsters they believed the Republican president was doing a "poor job."
Clearly, suburbanites are prepared to support a Republican presidential candidate who is tough on terrorists but moderate on social issues. Giuliani seems uniquely able to attract a majority of support from politically moderate Pennsylvanians. And it's significant that both Giuliani and McCain lead Clinton and Obama even in Southeastern Pennsylvania...
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lol.
In a way it would ironic that Hillary needed to do that in order to win states that are blue(s). I'm not so sure that Hillary will be the dem candidate, though. She is blowing her lead at the moment and if she gets behind Obama - I'm not sure she will recover.
The way it looks now Hillary will lose to Obama - she either has to find something on him that is scandalous or maybe grab the Hispanic and black vote.
"To not understand the electorate is to say that you don't want to be effective in politics."
And failing to understand that the conservative, pro-gun south is now the anchor of the GOP's electoral college strategy is a recipe for disaster.
The South is changing before your eyes and you don't even see it. This is not 2000 anymore.
hopeful that "looking for moderation" will include scrutinizing Sestak for his embrace of the extremists of CAIR.
It is looking like that, isn't it. There are as many people who hate her as love her. And she is so strident and shrill. I'm sure the Clinton attack machine will try to destroy Obama - but, hey, if the dems start beating each other up - it will be fun to watch(s).
You laugh! But it seems that this is the political strategy of a lot of Guiliani supporters today.
BUT..BUT..BUT He likes gays and stuff..............sarcasm
well you find another reagan and they will....duncan hunter? tom tancredo?...pleeeeeeeeeeeeease..ron is dead and he aint coming back
add in California for good measure and they are really in doo-doo land, all the fake Southan tawking in the world won't help Hillary or Obama.
"Real Clear Politics is NOT MSM"
But, but, but...it doesn't support the current FR groupthink so it cannot be credible!!
LOL Being anti-gay is a losing position for the GOP. Being pro-life is a positive position. There is beauty in that position. Hating and ridiculing gays like Ann Coulter just did - is a loser.
I have often wondered what rank and file democrats think of hillandbill's naked pandering to the black community.
"The South is changing before your eyes and you don't even see it. This is not 2000 anymore."
And you as a new yorker have the insight on that, right?
True, true... when I lived there the suburbs were still conservatives but then all of the refugees from Philadelphia who screwed that city up had moved out here and then began ruining things for the rest of us.
Politically though Penna. is a lost cause for Republicans. Not a single cent of advertising money should be spent there and no Republican candidate should waste a single minute of campaign time there. Republicans can win nationally without Penna. so resources would better be concentrated on shoring up borderline red states instead of blue states.
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