Posted on 05/10/2007 7:08:40 AM PDT by John Cena
May 10, 2007 - Obama Runs Closest To Giuliani In Connecticut, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Clinton Losing Ground In Main Race, Dem Primary
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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani leads all Democratic contenders in the 2008 presidential race in Connecticut, squeaking by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 44 - 42 percent; inching past former Vice President Al Gore 45 - 42 percent, and beating New York Sen. Hillary Clinton 48 - 42 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Sen. Clinton tops Arizona Sen. John McCain 47 - 40 percent.
This compares to a 46 - 44 percent Clinton lead over Giuliani in a February 19 poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
In other possible presidential matchups: Clinton tops former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson 49 - 33 percent; Obama beats McCain 46 - 38 percent; Gore tops McCain 45 - 41 percent; Gore beats Thompson 51 - 29 percent; Obama bests Thompson 51 - 27 percent.
In a Democratic primary, Clinton leads with 28 percent, followed by Obama with 20 percent, compared to a 33 - 21 percent Clinton lead February 19. In this latest survey, Gore gets 13 percent, with 8 percent for 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards and 6 percent for Sen. Christopher Dodd.
Giuliani gets 36 percent of Republicans, with 15 percent for McCain, Mitt Romney at 9 percent, Thompson at 7 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 5 percent.
"Connecticut voters credit New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for his role in the 9/11 recovery," said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D.
"This follows the pattern of another neighboring state, New Jersey, where Quinnipiac University polls show Giuliani running strong," Schwartz added.
"Giuliani benefits from being an almost hometown candidate, but native son Sen. Christopher Dodd gains no traction among Connecticut voters, ranking fifth among Democratic contenders with only 6 percent of the vote.
"While this presidential campaign changes from week to week, the surprise this week is Sen. Barack Obama's performance against Giuliani and Sen. Clinton's loss of support in the head-to-head matchup."
Clinton gets a 49 - 42 percent favorability rating from Connecticut voters, down from 53 - 36 percent February 19. Favorability ratings for other contenders are: 61 - 25 percent for Giuliani; 48 - 28 percent for McCain; 51 - 15 percent for Obama; 46 - 28 percent for Edwards; 54 - 37 percent for Gore; 45 - 31 percent for Dodd; For Thompson, 63 percent haven't heard enough to form an opinion. For Romney, 60 percent haven't heard enough to form an opinion. President Bush's Approval
Connecticut voters disapprove 72 - 24 percent of the job President George W. Bush is doing, unchanged from February 19.
Voters disapprove 77 - 20 percent of President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, and say 65 - 30 percent that going to war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do.
From May 2 - 7, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,427 Connecticut registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.6 percentage points. The survey includes 375 Republicans with a margin of error of +/- 5.1 percentage points, and 543 Democrats with a margin of error of +/- 4.2 percentage points.
The Quinnipiac University Poll conducts public opinion surveys in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and the nation as a public service and for research
Good. Now let him run in the Democrat primary where he really belongs.
We can’t wait for the next Ronald Reagan to come along from out of no where and run for president. Yeah, I don’t agree with Rudy on a lot of things. But when it comes to the war on terror, he’s the one who I most trust out of all the major candidates. And Rudy seems like the most likely candidate to keep the rats out of the white house.
He’ll further erode the 2nd Amendment, we are required to take his word on judicial nominations, we KNOW he’ll sign off on any gay rights legislation thats passed, and when Rudy gets bored he has the potential to dwarf Bill Clinton’s multiple sex scandals.
No thanks. I’m okay with him in a GOP administration in a Cabinet position...but not as President.
Who knows what Rudy will morph into ten minutes after being sworn in?
There are OTHER candidates in this run who are much more ideologically closer to Reagan than Rudy ever has been or will be. Start supporting them.
543 versus 375? I suppose that reflects the registration in Connecticut. If so, good news for Republicans, as they lead their opponent, even with 44% fewer voters.
Guiliani could win the Democrat nomination. Good for him.
Quinnipiac polls statistically blow....little fish trying to be a big fish like Zogby and Rassmussen.
The opinion of “registered voters” is irrelevant. It’s the opinion of properly vetted “likely voters” that is relevant, less so this far out.
I’ll support who I think has the best chance of winning and keeping the Dumbocrats out of power. These candidates like Duncan Hunter may be closer ideology to Ronald Reagan, but they haven’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of beating Hillary, Obama, or Eddwards. Rudy has a great chance at it.
I’ll support the Republican who I think has the best chance of winning and won’t shoot conservatives in the back.
That's not a good reason to support Rudy. It's half a reason at best. Yes, it's important to keep the Dems out of the White House, but it's important to keep their liberal agenda out of there too. Voting for Rudy, might keep a Dem out of the White House, but will be inviting the liberal agenda to come right on in regardless. Look at what happened to Arnold in California.
Voting for someone just because he has an "R" after his name, and has a good chance of beating the Dems can be disasterous.
These candidates like Duncan Hunter may be closer ideology to Ronald Reagan, but they haven’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of beating Hillary, Obama, or Eddwards. Rudy has a great chance at it.
Boy, are you getting a good brainwashing from the MSM! They have just a good a chance of beating Hillary and/or Obama as Rudy. Probably even more so. Rudy is dead in the water in the General election.
The MSM doesn’t brainwash me of anything. I’m speaking reality, even though it’s not what most would like to hear right now. Our current political state has most average americans very angry and upset at conservatives and Republicans.
Who decides the winners of every elections? It’s not Democrats or Republicans, it’s the independents. And with the war unpopular and the President’s approval rating in the tank, independents are not going to vote for a conservative right now. If the Republicans are going to hang onto the white house, they are going to have to go more towards the center. It’s unfortunate, but that’s just the way things are right now.
I’ve been studying politics for a long time. And given the state of our country right now, I just think Rudy is our best shot at hanging onto the White House and continuing Bush’s war on terror, and to me that’s the paramount concern that overrides all other issues including the stuff I don’t agree with Rudy on like abortion and gay rights.
I have no idea where this illusion comes from and how it became so widespread. Rudy has done nothing positive that I can see for the WOT, other than talk about it. Whereas in response to a terrorist shooting in 1997, Rudy called for more federal gun control laws. He kept the ECC in WT7 despite strong concerns from emergency professionals. And he pushed a corrupt crony for the most important anti-terror job in the country.
And in regards to the latest domestic terror plot that was foiled in New Jersey, a store clerk was the reason the feds were alterted. However, Fox News reported yesterday that three of the suspects who were here illegally were stopped at least 15 times for traffic violations. But they were not reported to the INS because those violations happened in sanctuary cities.
And who was one of the biggest defenders of sanctuary city policies? Why, Rudy G - he defied federal law and federal court orders to keep NYC's sanctuary city policy.
Rudy's probably the weakest pubbie candidate to fight the WOT except for Ron Paul. It's part of the Rudy booster big lie to claim otherwise.
I know a Democrat who lives in Connecticut, and I'm sure he doesn't consider Giuliani his leader.
I will vote for McCain if he ends up as the Republican nominee, cause he would still be better than any of the Dems. But he just doesn’t seem like he takes a stand on anything. He flips his position way too much for my liking. Now you can say that Rudy might flip his position too. But I just believe that when it comes to the war on terror, he will stand his ground. He proved that to me when he ripped up that million dollar check that the Saudi prince offered him for the victims of New York because of what he said about America.
Look, I can sit here and argue and nitpick positions on issues all day long. And while I don’t agree with Rudy on a lot, I do think he did an excellent job in cleaning up crime in New York. And I just see him as the most likely candidate to keep the Republicans in the White House and continue the war on terror. If people here don’t agree with me, then I’m sorry. But that’s the way I feel.
Brainwashed people don't know they're brainwahsed. That's why it's called Brainwashing.
I’m speaking reality,
You're speaking your opinion.
Our current political state has most average americans very angry and upset at conservatives and Republicans.
True. That's because the Republican's and Conservatives currently in office, and before the Dems took over Congress, had abandoned the conservative agenda in many ways. Running further away from the conservative agenda by supporting or appointing Rudy will NOT solve our problems. Quite the contrary. It will hurt us more in the long run. We need to embrace the conservative agenda alot more, and that means no Rudy. California Republicans made this same exact mistake with Arnold.
Who decides the winners of every elections? It’s not Democrats or Republicans, it’s the independents.
They are indeed the swing voters that decides it, but they're looking for politicians who stand by their principles.
And with the war unpopular and the President’s approval rating in the tank, independents are not going to vote for a conservative right now.
Yes they will. The Dems, in order to win Congress, had to move to the right and sound like conservatives.
If the Republicans are going to hang onto the white house, they are going to have to go more towards the center.
You mean abandon their conservative principles, and move to the left. Perhaps this works in certain states, but this is NOT how one wins a national election. If I, and all other voters, wanted a Democrat agenda, we'd vote for a Democrat.
I’ve been studying politics for a long time. And given the state of our country right now, I just think Rudy is our best shot at hanging onto the White House and continuing Bush’s war on terror, and to me that’s the paramount concern that overrides all other issues including the stuff I don’t agree with Rudy on like abortion and gay rights.
Who says that the other Republican candidates are not going to continue the war on terror? But that aside, your paramount concern should be other issues besiudes the war on tewrror. How is he going to govern domestically is very important. Him running a war overseas, but governing like a liberal at home, if he were in the White House, count on him to be a one termer, and getting replaced by a Democrat.
And given the state of our country right now, I just think Rudy is our best shot at hanging onto the White House and continuing Bush’s war on terror, and to me that’s the paramount concern that overrides all other issues including the stuff I don’t agree with Rudy on like abortion and gay rights.
***Latest rudybot talking points. Already starting to get old.
So you think a video like this running day and night for the Democratic candidate in the general election is going to convince people that Julie Annie is a leader and decisive?
How is this guy a winner on a Republican ticket? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM
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