Posted on 05/23/2007 9:03:49 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
Zogby: Obama Beats 'Rudy McRomney'
Democrat Barack Obama would defeat any of the three Republican front-runners - Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney - in a head-to-head presidential election, but McCain and Giuliani would outpoll Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, a surprising new poll reveals.
Zogby polled nearly 1,000 likely voters – 377 Democrats, 357 Republicans and 258 Independents.
The 2008 GOP front-runners, sometimes referred to by political wags as "Rudy McRomney," showed mixed results in the Zogby poll.
Asked whom they would vote for if the race was between John McCain and Hillary Clinton, 46.6 percent chose McCain and 42.9 percent named Clinton, with the remainder selecting "someone else” or "will not vote.”
McCain also beat out John Edwards by a margin of 46 percent to 41.2 percent.
But when matched against Obama, the Senator from Illinois outpolled McCain, 45.6 percent to 43.2 percent.
Giuliani also beat Clinton, 48.1 percent to 43.1 percent, and Edwards, 46.7 percent to 43.3 percent. But matched against Obama, Giuliani trailed with 42.2 percent of the vote compared to 48.1 percent for Obama.
In a head-to-head race with Romney, Clinton won by about 7 percentage points, while Obama and Edwards both beat Romney by about 15 points.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, who has not announced his candidacy, actually drew slightly more votes than did Romney when matched against Clinton, Obama and Edwards.
© NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved.
I’ve always thought that Obama Hussein would be a far more formidible opponent that Hitlery!
Give it a few months, let Fred get in the race. I’m thinking if he gets the nomination, he wins ‘08 in a near Reaganesque landslide....and it won’t matter who the ‘rats nominate.
A Giuliani candidacy would drive down conservative voters in places like Ohio and Iowa. Other than New Hampshire, I don't see Rudy! bringing in any blue states.
Lighter than air. What happened to gravitas?
Wait, sorry, IIRC, Teddy Roosevelt was a muslim. Wasn't he?
And not a Republican, much less a conservative, in the bunch.
As divided as this country is right now, I don't forsee a Reaganesaque landslide happening for the next couple of election cycles.
Reagan is dead, so is much of the populace who voted for him (yet still voted Dem for congress). :-(
Fred Thompson is not Reagan. Those who want to recreate Fred into another Reagan will be sorely disappointed. That's not to say he's a bad candidate - we don't know that yet - but he's not Reagan.
“Fred Thompson is not Reagan.”
I was not saying that he was.
Algore would squash them all. Not in an election, though.
Reagan is dead. He is NOT coming back. There can be no new Reagan.
Watch Obama talk about how America should use "soft power" in the war on terror:
Thompson doesn’t have the appeal of Reagan to draw from across the political spectrum, especially not in the current atmosphere. There will be no landslide for Thompson or any other candidate from the GOP. In all honesty, after 8 years of Bush, and an unpopular war, we’ll be lucky to win regardless of who the candidate is.
This poll is suspect. Many Demonrats would sooner vote for she-who-must-not-be-named instead of Obama.
It would be a very different race if Obama was the nominee. He is a lightweight, and as such risks a serious stumble.
Remember in late 2003 everyone thought Howard Dean had the nomination locked up, and Kerry was a lost cause.
That said, I think an Obama/Richardson ticket would easily win. All the Democrats have to do to win is to win the states they did in 2004, and turn Ohio to the D column. Not hard to do at all.
The Republicans have to nominate someone who can keep the close win states, and turn enough close loss states to overcome an Ohio loss, which seems likely.
The status quo will not win for the Republicans in 2008.
Hunter or Tancredo, Tancredo or Hunter. Our best shot for a decent four years comes from these two candidates.
I'd be interested to know how you think the Republicans turn close states? What candidate or type of candidate do you think can do it?
I agree. I like Fred alot. I do not trust Zogby polls. He way off during the last election. Someone must stop the Soros control over the Dems and the media. It really is obvious that NBC, MSNBC and ABC have all gone to the Dems side. The pressure of the antiwar left has influenced our local affiliates, the daily breaks for news at the half hour and hour.
In Connecticut tonight the local covered the Coast Guard Graduation with film of the Code Pink crowd out there. We know that the GOE crowd was on the other side of the street and it was obvious they had film but cut it out. Just awful
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