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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Sounds good for Rudy.
Where's Duncan? Oh, Duncan?!
so what? last time I looked, women had the right to vote.
LOL...the defining characteristics were "honesty and integrity" and these dimwits chose Hillary? Unbelievable.
As many men would vote for McCain as Giuliani? I guess it's true - women really are the smarter sex.
We might want to rethink that. LOL
Not this chic....
So what do the people who aren't "chic" say about him? ;)
Ha! that's good.
I guess there is no way just to rescind lib women voters, is there?
In time. patience.
Rudy is the one who could siphon all those votes from women who are supposed to vote for Mrs. Clinton.
Ask me in 6 months. can't wait to see the forlorn looks.
"Cripe, Hunter didn't even register in the results"
Who?
Yeah he could, apparently. Of course the men will be busy building a new conservative party.
I think a bigger problem will be the trend towards allowing Independants and Democrats (and illegals) to vote in the Republican primaries
Perhaps. But women tend to vote liberal, even in GOP circles apparently.
Be prepared to get slammed....I do not dislike Rudy by I am more of Fred kind of gal...
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