Posted on 03/29/2007 9:02:28 AM PDT by drzz
Why, in poll after poll, including the new TIME poll, does that advantage seem to disappear whenever voters are asked to pick a president in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups among front-runners with solid name recognition. In our poll, Hillary Clinton loses to John McCain, 42-48%, and to Rudy Giuliani 41-50%. Even though Clinton maintains a 7% edge over Obama among Democratic respondents, Obama fares better in the general election match-ups. It's so close that it's a statistical dead-heat, but Obama still loses: 43-45% to McCain, 44-45% to Giuliani.
It's hard to know exactly why respondents who are generally unhappy towards — and in many cases fed up with — the GOP might still prefer a Republican for president over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton's case, as TIME pollster Mark Schulman points out, "with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. She may have limited upward potential against Republicans. The emerging anti-Hillaries, Obama and Edwards, suffer from low awareness at this point."
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Im sorry, I dont think anyone can say anything about Fred Thompson yet. Because nobody knows any of his positions. The baggage claim could also be bad for Thompson, who apparantly was quite the ladys man in his younger days. I think Thompson entering is just a poke in the ass from the establisment towards McCain.
Because Hillary really makes Americans uneasy, and Obama doesn't have the experience.
You underestimate the people who disagree with you. This is what I do for a living. I have been following and working with polls for nearly 20 years. I have helped draft polls and I have seen polls and focus groups that you have not seen nor will ever see.
I am not backing any candidate at this time though I do have some favorites.
As for the depth of interest by the public at this point, you are clearly living in an echo chamber. Go to your local mall and stop total strangers and ask them DETAILS about the presidential candidates and their policies. If you do that, you will come back agreeing with me.
Could it be that just the mention of Mrs. Clinton's name, after her husband's presidency, causes a gut, finger-nails-on-a-blackboard response in a great number of people?
So now you are threatening people who want to be in the PRIMARY? What exactly do YOU think the primaries are for, anyway?
LOL! They are out there, and those of us who know politics have already researched them.
Besides, if you were really concerned about issues, you would never back Rudy! He's all wrong.
Please back up the Thompson baggage claim. Posts get pulled for these sorts of empty claims, just ask Odfriend who made a really wild and spurious claim yesterday.
Actually I thought I typed "big" in there. Ah, well.
My tagline spells it out.
Too early in the contest for these numbers to mean that much.
Thanks for the laugh!
Why not "Clinton 2" or maybe "Clinton in a dress"?
These Rudyites either don't understand Rudy or they didn't understand Reagan, because Rudy is far closer to ANY Democrat than he will ever be to Reagan.
Are the editors at Time distressing over this poll? Sounds like it. Let them squirm.
Whos bashing Reagan. I love the man. Im comparing my favorite candidate to him. I wish he could have served 3 terms. I was simply stating he had personal failings that today we say cant be our nominee. Reagan, the greatest conservative since Churchill, was divorced, a Hollywood actor and one time supporter of abortion, is the conservative icon and gave us Scalia on the high court.
"PEOPLE LOVE RUDY, or as I like to call him, Reagan 2."
Don't respond, just call 911. Do it quickly before you are completely overcome by the fumes.
Comparing the not-worthy Giuliani to reagan is bashing. Giuliani doesn't have the class to wash reagans underwear.
Reagan was a great leader of this nation who truly believed that America was good .
I have seen & watched Rudy for several years & get the impression that he is first & foremost a prosecutor & the kind that thinks that everybody is a perp that ain't been convicted yet.Instead of honest productive citizens. That kind of politician has as a default setting that people must be ruled with an mailed fist & at bayonet point.
I'd like that alot better if it read liberal as opposed to democrat.
Time Magazin does not understand why their readership is plunging to zero. They are hardly competent to answer this question.
(hint to time: It is not because there IS an internet, it is because of what information is ON the internet)
Maybe he was talking about Ron Reagan, Jr.
Democrats have gone way beyond being liberals.
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