Posted on 03/27/2007 3:51:49 AM PDT by Josh Painter
USA Today and Gallup offer their latest in polling for both parties in the extended presidential primary race, and a couple of changes have raised eyebrows. First, even the rumor of a bid by Fred Thompson has dented Rudy Giuliani's momentum, while John McCain's decline in support appears to have leveled off:
"On the Republican side, former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson shook up the field with his announcement that he would consider getting into the presidential race. Thompson is familiar as the actor who plays District Attorney Arthur Branch on NBC's Law and Order. Chosen by 12% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters, Thompson is third in the Republican field. He trails former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, at 31%, and Arizona Sen. John McCain, at 22%. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is at 8%."
"Thompson's support seems to come largely from voters who had supported Giuliani. In the USA TODAY poll taken March 2-4, Giuliani's standing had been 13 percentage points higher, at 44%. McCain's support had been 2 points lower then."
"What does this mean? Conservatives who have supported Giuliani for his leadership and electability -- and plenty of them have -- would desert Rudy if a credible, consistent conservative entered the race... Thompson['s]... eight years in the Senate have left a more credible sense of consistency and center-right politics than Giuliani brings to the race. And according to the Post's blog The Sleuth, Thompson has begun seriously considering a run -- and has met with GOP powerhouse advisor Ed Gillespie."
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Romney fared poorly in this poll... That has to be disappointing, especially since Hugh Hewitt's political biography and Romney's appearance at CPAC should have set the stage for a significant boost. Has Thompson's potential disrupted Romney's momentum as well? Possibly.
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I am pro life, I am a 2nd Amendment voter, I admit, I am more libertarian of the gay issues, but I do believe in family values. Yet I also see a Country that will be taken over by Islamic Terrorists, if we let it. And although I would love to have a day with no more abortions, I want to be able to Thank God on that day, and not praise allah. I need to be able to vote for someone I believe will do everything in their power to fight those Islamofascits and I truly believe Rudy will do that. If I see the same potential in Fred, he may get my support. I just don't see anyone else in the field that would do that AND be electable.
I LIKE Rudy...he was the best thing for NYC that came along in around 50 years....
....but he is NOT, repeat NOT presidential timber. His methods are facist and anti-individual. NYC at the time needed a facist....and seeing as how the dims had made NYC a cross between Marxism and Facism already, it was no great shakes to have him clean the city in his own inimitable style.
He is not right for America....period. Let him run for either Putzhead Schumers or Shrillaries seat in the Senate...he can only improve the senate in comparison to those two pear-shaped loosers.....
I will not vote for Rudy for either president or NY governor...period...and I will do what I can against him in either of those endeavors.
That's only good news if you are polling above 50%. The bottom always provides a leveling off. I'm just amazed that 22% of GOP voters would back the media queen.
I love those, thanks much
Probably the only words that Bob ever uttered that wasn't a bold face lie.
I believe THIS is the latest national poll. Giuliani leads 31-12, not 27-9. And Gingrich was at 8%, meaning Thompson has 50% more support.
ROFL!
15 of the nation's 41 presidents served in the Senate.
If you mean "directly from the senate", TWO presidents were elected out of the Senate, not one.
And Thompson is not IN the Senate today, so he wouldn't count.
I was undecided because the field we have now is disappointing with a lot of the flip-flopping views disturbing. The MSM media, the ones attacking Bush at every turn, are busy pushing on the nation the one THEY would like to see run. I have posted in many,many threads about who FDT is and what he stands for as a conservative, which is what we need as a candidate, not a pseudo-conservative, not a panderer, not one that has lost credibility, but a true conservative.
I wanted Condi, but she is not interested, I'd like to see Newt, but he has so much baggage, and the Defeatocrats will never forget what he did to Slick, and they are taking that out on the Bush administration now that they are back in power, and will continue to do so.
What we need and should insist upon is someone who we know we can back to the hilt, not just because he has an R beside his name, not because 'he can beat Hillary', not because we would have no choice but to hold our noses and vote R, but for the simple fact that when we. as conservatives, fully support our candidate, the Defeatocrats lose, BIG.
That's probably the best post I've ever seen you put up.
You left out the republicans, some of them here on FR, who actually DO support abortion rights, and DO think we should regulate guns and allow gays to marry, and who are tired of having their lack of morals challenged by religious nuts.
They were strongly for Rudy.
Wait till the media starts "liking" Freddy....will you wake up and realize he's just a plant then....
Thompson was an absolute failure on the Glenn Committee, showed no backbone and is best as an actor.
spoken like a true Beast supporter
Now here is an OxyMORON. A liberal republican.
In 2004, Michael Moore put the movie F-9/11 in theatres during the election, and it had several people in it who were candidates for office.
Another group did a movie about Kerry and tried to put it on TV, and managed to do parts of it -- but it wasnt' stopped because they weren't allowed to show Kerry, it was stopped by pressure FROM Kerry because he didn't like it.
Politicians have been in sitcoms during the time they were running for office, and they appear on entertainment shows like SNL and David Lettermen.
I don't know the technicalities of the law. But it doesn't seem certain to me that it would be a problem.
LOL. I want a conservative, you want a liberal and you claim I am supporting "the beast"? Look, maybe in stupidland your post would make sense, but this is the real world, and going ultraliberal does NOT make YOU a conservative.
This is the big leagues, kid. You need more time training back in the minors.
If I said that Rudy is almost exactly like current President Bush, but without the morality, would you in general agree or disagree, and if you disagree what do you see in Rudy that you didn't see in Bush right after 9/11?
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