Giuliani Leads 2008 Republican White House Hopefuls (Rasmussen Poll)

Angus Reid ^ | 9/21/05

[areafiftyone]

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is the top presidential contender for GOP supporters in the United States, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 31 per cent of Republican voters would prefer Giuliani as the party’s nominee in 2008.

Arizona senator John McCain is second with 28 per cent, followed by current state secretary Condoleezza Rice with 19 per cent. 12 per cent of respondents would support other contenders or are undecided.

Giuliani garnered national and international attention in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In 2000, McCain won seven Republican presidential primaries in the U.S., but retired from the race after eventual nominee George W. Bush became the frontrunner.

Rice is the second woman—after Madeleine Albright—and the second African-American—after Colin Powell—to serve as state secretary. She previously acted as the White House’s national security advisor during U.S. president George W. Bush’s first term in office.

The next presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.

Polling Data

Who would you vote for as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2008?

Rudy Giuliani	31%
John McCain	28%
Condoleezza Rice	19%
Other / Undecided	12%

Source: Rasmussen Reports
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 370 Republican voters, conducted on Sept. 14, 2005. Margin of error is 5 per cent.

Here is the Rassmussen poll:

 

 

September 19, 2005--Senator John McCain leads Senator Hillary Clinton by 8 percentage points in an early 2008 Presidential Election poll. McCain attracts 47% of the vote while Clinton earns 39%. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani holds a 4-point edge over New York's Junior Senator, 47% to 43%. Giuliani is currently the top choice among Republicans for their party nomination. McCain is second. Some had anticipated that Giuliani would get a "Katrina bounce" based upon his performance as Mayor of New York on 9-11. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of American voters believe Giuliani would be better than Clinton at handling a natural disaster. Just 31% think Clinton would be better. Giuliani is also seen better at handling natural disasters than McCain. Fifty-nine percent (59%) say Giuliani would be better while 22% give the edge to McCain. However, in our last survey before Katrina, McCain held a 2-point edge over Clinton while Giuliani was ahead of Clinton by 3 percentage points. It is not clear why McCain gained ground and Giuliani did not.When it comes to handling the situation in Iraq, 49% of voters say Giuliani would be better than Clinton. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say Clinton would be better.

Voters are evenly divided as to whether Giuliani or Clinton would do a better job managing the economy. They give a slight edge to the Republican on immigration issues.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) have a favorable opinion of Giuliani while 26% have an unfavorable view. For McCain, the numbers are 52% favorable and 28% unfavorable.

Clinton is far more polarizing--44% favorable and 49% unfavorable in this survey. Rasmussen Reports has been following public perceptions of Senator Clinton every other week through the Hillary Meter.

Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.

Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome.

During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Don't think you can kick people in the groin and make them thank you for it.

You're not the same person, are you? ; )

I don't like gungrabbers, gay adoption or gay "marriage", abortionists, ACLUers, or any of those other hideous nasty liberal types. In fact, they piss me off very, very much.

All I'm saying is, between Giuliani and the Hildebeast, I vote for Giuliani.

[ZULU]

I like Cheney. But you're right, they would make an issue of his age and his health.

I like Gingrich and think that he is a possibility.

I like Rice, but some statements she made recently about Israel and the Phillistinians were not wise ones - from an accurate or a politically sage position.

I don't like Powell. I think he is a RINO. He's pro-choice, is anti-gun, and, I believe, support affirmative action. His military performance has been far from stellar. He performed miserably at the U.N. and in foreign policy efforts to "sell" our war against terror. The French, German and Russians really fooled him about their real intentions.

I like Alan Keyes, but he ran a poor campaign in Illinois and shouldn't have gotten involved there at all. I voted for him in the primary when he ran against Bush.

I also like Zell Miller, but his age and party are against him. Were he younger, a Miller/Rice or Rice/Miller team would be a dream team.

I like Tancredo - his views on the illegal invasion and immigration issues resonant with Americans of all political persuasions.

I heard that Allen and Pence are pretty good.

But whatever, if the Repubs pick McCain or Giuliani - they have lost - even if either one actually wins - which is most unlikely.

The Dems already have their candidate, whatever grandstanding Kerry or Edwards are doing - and we know who she is. The major media will try their best to either

a) give eligible good Republicans no coverage; or,

b) try to present them as negatively as possible.

They don't want the Repubs to do what they must - coalesce around an eligible candidate right now and start counterattacking Hillery.

Bush's ineptitude and truculence on issues like the budget and the border bode ill for 2006 and 2008. His budget problems are alienating the conservative base, and the border issues are alienating everybody.

[sitetest]

Dear T. Buzzard Trueblood,

LOL. No, we're not the same person.

"I don't like gungrabbers, gay adoption or gay 'marriage', abortionists, ACLUers, or any of those other hideous nasty liberal types. In fact, they piss me off very, very much."

But a vote for Rudy is a vote for nearly all of the above.

"All I'm saying is, between Giuliani and the Hildebeast, I vote for Giuliani."

Well, I understand your viewpoint, and can respect it. However, for me, and likely millions of social conservatives, we can't join you. If it is between Mr. Giuliani and Mrs. Clinton, we've already lost.

Big.


sitetest

[ArrogantBustard]

If it's between guiliani and the hildebeeste, I might just as well throw the ballot in the garbage ... If the "R"s and the "D"s both think I'm garbage, a pox on both their houses.

The Primary is the place to make bloody well certain that it isn't between guiliani and hitlery.

I was ready to sit the last election out if the "R"s renewed the ugly-gun ban.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

The Primary is the place to make bloody well certain that it isn't between guiliani and hitlery.

Agreed.