Posted on 04/24/2007 5:35:01 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Last week, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Arizona Senator John McCain both gained support in the race for the GOP nomination. This week, the top four contenders all lost ground. But, through it all, Giuliani remains on top with a double digit lead.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national poll shows Giuliani with 28%, thirteen points more than McCain’s total of 15%. Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson remains undeclared but in third place with 12% support. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney remains slightly behind Thompson at 10%.
The stability in the GOP competition stands in stark contrast to the Democrats where Illinois Senator Barack Obama has gained ground steadily and is now tied with New York Senator Hillary Clinton.
Giuliani has regained his status as the most popular candidate in either party—62% now have a favorable opinion of him. McCain is viewed favorably by 55%, Thompson by 35%, and Romney by 32%. See updated favorability ratings and general election match-ups for all Republican and Democratic candidates
A separate survey found that 29% of all voters say they would definitely vote for Giuliani if he is on the ballot in November 2008. Thirty-four percent (34%) would definitely vote against him. Those numbers are a bit weaker for Giuliani than they were a month ago, but they are still the best of any Republican Presidential hopeful. For McCain, the numbers are 23% definitely for and 35% definitely against. Those figures have changed little over the past month.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) draws the best overall numbers of any candidate at this time—33% definitely for and 33% definitely against.
Rasmussen Reports releases updated polling data on the Republican nominating contest every Tuesday. Results for the Democrats are updated on Mondays. The current survey is based upon national telephone interviews with 579 Likely Republican Primary Voters conducted April 16-19, 2007. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. (More Below)
It is the Republican party, which has been the de facto home of the conservative movement for 40 odd years. The GOP is free to nominate any candidate they wish, I simply hope they don't nominate a candidate who embodies only a narrow faction and historically unsuccessful wing of the GOP. It would be shame to throw away a productive alliance with conservatives and have the party represented by a candidate that can't credibly represent the basic platform of the past 30 years.
You’re on FR Christmas card list.
Thanks for that.
You are lying about the reason those people were banned.
That’s very well said.
Knowing the strength of our conservative movement in the GOP - there
is no way any candidate (any candidate) can ignore it - no way.
Again - if (if) the party nominates Rudy - the conservatives will have every single right
to hold his butt to the fire and get demands met.
That’s the game - that’s politics.
No candidate will be able to ignore our conservative base.
No way.
Will you two go to opposite corners?
LOL
Oh really? LOL check your freepmail
I guess most any of us would do the same if we were singled out like that. In 2000 many of the Keyes and third party types, at the most radical end of the Right, were banned or had to change their tone.
None the less, they were good people and it alarms me to read many of the hateful and wrong things being said about them here lately. I know several of them personally, and it is just plain tragic to see this forum torn apart from the very core of what it used to represent.
Unlike you, I actually read the outrageous posts they made, just begging to be banned. The foul things they said to Jim
were unbelievable. And the pro-infanticide and pro-abortion people are no loss, either. Then there was the person who slandered the vice-president by saying he was drunk when he had the shooting accident.
Bump.
What you have to understand is that at the end of the primary we are all going to need to get together and work to promote infanticide. That's what FR is all about, and that's how you win elections!
/massive sarcasm
There were a LOT of fowl things said from BOTH sides that night. You are only giving ONE side of the story. You must have forgotten that we have seen the thread also.
I missed the memo.
Well said JohnnyZ.
We’ll be OK - it’s like an inter-team scrimmage right now.
Bust heads - maybe someone gets hurt - sorry about that..
But hey - we have a REAL game coming up... gotta be ready to play.
SRI poll: Spitzer rebounds, Clinton slumps
Business First of Buffalo - 12:36 PM EDT Monday, April 23, 2007
New Yorkers are looking more favorably on the job performance of Gov. Eliot Spitzer but the same cannot be said for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton.
The Siena Research Institute in Albany released a poll Monday showing the state’s freshman governor has the support of two-thirds of New York voters, a five-point gain from March when 62 percent approved of his performance.
“His favorability rating is at least 65 percent in every region of the state,” said Steven Greenberg, SRI spokesman. “And his job performance rating has jumped in the last month to 55 percent excellent or good, and 38 percent fair or poor, up from 47-39 percent last month.”
Albany-based SRI also reported that New Yorkers are divided over whether the new $120 billion budget was good or bad for the state, while they overwhelmingly believe the spending plan demonstrates that things in Albany have pretty much stayed the same, despite Spitzer’s vow that “everything changes on Day 1.”
Among the presidential candidates Clinton was viewed favorably by 50 percent of voters, down from 56 percent in both March and February and a peak of 65 percent last November. Forty-two percent shared an unfavorable opinion of the state’s junior senator, up from 37 percent in March. By comparison Sen. Barack Obama’s favorability rating is 55-23 percent while Sen. John Edwards has a 52-29 percent favorability rating.
Greenberg noted Clinton’s favorability rating is the lowest it’s been in more than two years of the poll. She led Obama by 47 points in January and 32 points last month, but that lead is now 22 points.
Compared to her fellow New Yorker, Republican Rudy Giuliani, Clinton’s 12-point lead from last month has tightened to a five-point lead.
Also, SRI said while Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, was three points up on Obama last month, Obama now has a four-point lead over Giuliani.
Clinton and Giuliani remain significant favorites in their respective presidential primaries.
It’s JIM’S website. Curse him out and get banned. Ignore his warnings and get banned. Try to drag down conservatives by criticizing things your candidate is 100 times worse about and get banned. Compare Ronald Reagan’s divorce to Giuliani’s serial adultery and get banned. Don’t like it, leave.
You have made your point and made it loud and clear.
You might too tightly wound to engage in politics.
You think?
Giuliani may well be the most intelligent of the current candidates. You dont get to be wealthy like Romney withoug some skills, but when you hear Giuliani spek, he’s got it down cold.
It will be interesting when Thompson does jump in. He’s slick and smooth, the acting career wont hurt his speaking abilities.
The “trend” you think you see is purely imaginary. Anyone believing Duncan Hunter can even get the nomination much less defeat the Beast should not be consulted wrt practical matters.
Moat Rudy supporters believe HE can beat Hillary but see little chance for another candidate. Almost all of them state their willingness to vote for whomever is the GOP candidate. This is VERY different than those presuming to speak for “conservatives” and who claim they will not vote for Rudy.
Giuliani Thompson would be a very interesting ticket, one I had not previously considered.
I agree with every single thing you said.
Each of these guys have wonderful qualities - incredible array of talent the GOP has.
I like them all.
Except McCain - I always have to add that.
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