Posted on 03/22/2007 7:18:36 PM PDT by pissant
(AP) - Demographics and details from AP-Ipsos polling on the 2008 presidential race. The poll was conducted by Ipsos, an international polling firm:
OVERALL: The most important qualities looked for in a presidential candidate are honesty and integrity; these were named by more than half of those in the AP-Ipsos poll. The leading Democratic candidate, according to Democrats and those who lean Democratic, is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York at 38 percent followed by Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois at 21 percent, former Vice President Al Gore at 14 percent and former Sen. John Edwards at 10 percent. Among Republicans and those who lean Republican, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is leading the field at 35 percent, followed by Sen. John McCain of Arizona at 22 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 11 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 8 percent.
CANDIDATE TRAITS: Those most likely to mention honesty as an important trait included older people (46 percent of those over 35); whites (62 percent); those with college degrees (63 percent); and those from the Midwest (49 percent). Half of Republican women said honesty was an important trait, compared with 38 percent of Republican men and 41 percent of Democratic women. Among Democrats, honesty voters support Clinton over Obama 35 percent to 18 percent, while 15 percent would vote for Gore and 11 percent for Edwards. Nine percent say they do not know how they will vote. Among Republicans, honesty voters support Giuliani over McCain 38 percent to 20 percent, while 9 percent would vote for Gingrich, 7 percent for Romney and 7 percent for Huckabee. Eleven percent say they do not know how they will vote.
DEMOCRATS: Forty-seven percent of minorities said they would choose Clinton compared with 23 percent for Obama, who is black. Clinton does better with people who less educated _ 44 percent with a high school education or less, 48 percent of those with some college education _ compared with those with a college degree (21 percent).
REPUBLICANS: Giuliani got stronger support from Republican women (41 percent) than he did from Republican men (25 percent). McCain and Giuliani are even among men _ both at 25 percent. Giuliani got higher support in the Northeast (56 percent) than he did in the South (31 percent) or West (25 percent). Giuliani got a higher percentage of support from unmarried women (49 percent) than he did from married men (30 percent). McCain does better with moderates (39 percent) than he does with conservatives (21 percent). Giuliani has 37 percent among conservatives, 29 percent among moderates and 29 percent among liberals.
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The poll of 1,000 adults, including 463 Democrats and 427 Republicans, was taken Monday through Wednesday. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for the entire sample, 4.5 points for the Democrats and 4.5 points for Republicans.
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LOL. Exactly.
They want him to love them and leave them too?
Yes, we keep hearing about that. I don't think any serious observers of politics are expecting to see much movement in those quarters, with the exception of Thompson who could only benefit if he were to actually announce.
Exactly. But the ragers just want to pretend that women are stupid voters while the men, who seemingly would vote for McCain in equal numbers, are brilliant. No wonder this place has turned into a joke. The analysis here is getting dumber by the day.
Liberals grab guns. Liberals support "hate crimes" laws. Liberals sue gun manufacturers. Liberals sue tobacco companies. Liberals give aid and comfort to illegal aliens. Liberals like gov't money spent on abortions. Liberals believe global warming is a man made crisis. Liberals believe that you can screw with the 4th amendment.
Rudy isn't a liberal. And he's far more fiscally conservative than Hunter.
Maybe that's why Hunter isn't even showing up in a lot of polls.
From what I can discern from the Republican choices listed in the Boston Globe via AP/Ipso, Hunter was not included. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/polls/president_poll/
I think major newspapers and pollsters are going to start dropping off the 1% candidates. If they haven't made headway in what, 3 months or so, they're not going to make headway.
If that was what it was, they'd vote for Hillary or Obama. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good storyline.
Rudy is all those things I listed above. Except I left out that he supports civil unions and gays in the military.
Hunters voted for every tax cut since Reagan's first term. I seem to recall rudy not supporting some of those. He's a conservative allright.
The woman who has done my nails for 20 years likes Rudy. She has guessed right all that time.
Or is it lemmings? LOL
What horse feathers again. Are you unable to tell the truth? Rudy cut taxes 23 times in NYC.
I need to leave so I'll leave the lurkers with this to counter-act some of your little canards that Rudy is a liberal and Hunter (who can't get 2% to save his life) is the perfect conservative.
Reagan appointed Rudy as his #3 man at Department of Justice.
Rudy was pleased to win the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award.
At the Reagan Library Gift Shop, all but 3 of the books sold under the "Ronald Reagan Book" section are about Reagan himself or presidential modes of transportation.
Rudy Giuliani's book Leadership is one of those 3 books.
The other 2 are written by Reagan's son and McCaslin.
Indeed, in one recent poll, majorities of Republicans who were informed of Giuliani’s views on social issues said that they were either minor issues or no issues at all; only 16% said that they wouldn't vote for him after being informed of these views.
In the online GOP Bloggers poll, Giuliani is consistently one of the few candidates to end up with a net positive acceptability rating. These internet denizens are well-informed, and overwhelmingly self-describe as conservative (78% self-describe as 7 or higher on a 10-scale of conservatism). If these people can support Rudy, anyone can.
Human Events, Is Giuliani the Republican Peyton Manning,
2/6/07
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780060/posts
I don't think so. Women tend to be moe anti-abortion then men. It's alot of factors. Maybe they like they way he treats women.
>>>Or is it lemmings? LOL
Hey, you put chicks in the title, not rats!
Sam Brownback would support Rudy as presidential nominee, but thinks that he (Brownback) will enter race.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1752817/posts
Rudy defended Sen. George Allen against racism charges.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709893/posts
Rudy stumped for Rep. Santorum
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/19/115741.shtml?s=ic
The Rudy Giuliani Exploratory Committee today announced that Congressman Pete Sessions and former Congresswoman Susan Molinari are supporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani to be the next President of the United States. (Sessions has a 98% lifetime conservative rating)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783545/posts
"If that was what it was, they'd vote for Hillary or Obama. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good storyline."
Rudy has the exact same position on abortion as hillary and obama.
So when Arafat was in town for a U.N. conference and showed up uninvited to a concert at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, the mayor knew exactly what to do. He kicked him out.
The incident caused an uproar. Former mayor Ed Koch declared that "Giuliani has behavioral problems," and the Clinton administration was angered at Giuliani's boldness. Giuliani, however, was not swayed. "My only regret," he told an aide, "was that I didn't throw him out myself." Actions like this earned Giuliani the ire of Democrats everywhere in the '90s.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19980
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