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"I would like to see a straight up poll with all Republican candidates, sans those who aren’t even running. It would really be interesting to see how Freepers would vote as things stand now."

I have been saying this for weeks. C'mon, JimRob, if you are REALLY serious about letting the "anti-Rudy" voters here have a voice, LET US tell you WHICH candidates we prefer. Don't try to engineer a hypothetical "Fred vs. Rudy" victory until such candidates are actually running against each other. Might as well ask whether freepers would vote for Ronald Reagan over Karl Marx.

You want what kind of competition Rudy has? ASK.

A simple FR poll is in order:

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Here is a list of all the Republicans CURRENTLY running for President. If the election was held today, which of these would you vote for?

Former Governor Tommy Thompson (R-Wisconsin)
Former Governor Mitt Romney (R-Massachusetts)
Former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas)
Former Governor Jim Gilmore (R-Virginia)
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R-New York)
US Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas)
US Senator John McCain (R-Arizona)
Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-California)
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas)
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado)
Stay Home/Pass

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THOSE are the cards we're currently being dealt. We can talk hypothetically all day if 92% of freepers would choose Condi Rice or Newt Gingrich or George Allen (anyone member last year when we were told HE was the savior of the GOP and anyone here who thought otherwise was ignorant??) or "Fred" over "Rudy" but it won't accomplish a damn thing unless those candidates actually RUN.

Sorry, we do a new poll about every two weeks or so, so we may not be able to get all the polls in, we’d like to. Sometimes I run the same or similar poll more than once over time so we can see if opinions are changing. Our polling software is a quick and dirty and doesn’t have room for all candidates names on one poll and I sometimes have to leave off those who are drawing in the low single digit territory.

Here are a few of our past presidential polls:

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=139;results=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=92;results=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=138;results=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=145;results=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=154;results=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=158;results=1

Etc,

Here’s the entire list of FR polls todate:

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll