Posted on 01/27/2007 6:53:52 AM PST by Dark Skies
Rudy Giuliani is the favourite presidential candidate for Republican Party sympathizers in the United States, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. 32 per cent of respondents would support the former New York City mayor in a 2008 primary.
Arizona senator John McCain is second with 26 per cent, followed by former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich with nine per cent, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with seven per cent.
Support is lower for former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, former New York governor George Pataki, Kansas senator Sam Brownback, Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, California congressman Duncan Hunter, Texas congressman Ron Paul, Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson.
On Jan. 25, Tancredo called for the abolition of race-based caucuses, saying, "It is utterly hypocritical for Congress to extol the virtues of a colour-blind society while officially sanctioning caucuses that are based solely on race—and restrict their membership based on race."
In American elections, candidates require 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the White House. In November 2004, Bush earned a second term after securing 286 electoral votes from 31 states. Democratic nominee John Kerry received 252 electoral votes from 19 states and the District of Columbia.
Bush is ineligible for a third term in office. The next presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.
Polling Data
Please tell me which of the following people you would be most likely to support for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.
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Jan. 2007 |
Nov. 2006 |
Oct. 2006 |
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Rudy Giuliani |
32% |
33% |
29% |
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John McCain |
26% |
30% |
27% |
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Newt Gingrich |
9% |
9% |
12% |
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Mitt Romney |
7% |
9% |
7% |
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Jim Gilmore |
3% |
-- |
-- |
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George Pataki |
3% |
1% |
5% |
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Sam Brownback |
2% |
2% |
1% |
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Chuck Hagel |
1% |
-- |
-- |
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Mike Huckabee |
1% |
-- |
-- |
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Duncan Hunter |
1% |
2% |
-- |
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Ron Paul |
1% |
-- |
-- |
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Tom Tancredo |
1% |
-- |
-- |
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Tommy Thompson |
1% |
3% |
-- |
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No opinion |
12% |
8% |
11% |
Source: Opinion Research Corporation / CNN Methodology: Telephone interviews with 365 Republican American adults, conducted from Jan. 19 to Jan. 21, 2007. Margin of error is 5 per cent.
If you don't want Rudy to be the next President, some of the other candidates better get off the dime and get some attention. Hunter, Huckabee... They're good, and they're in statistically insignificant territory. They don't matter. It doesn't matter how great a candidate they are if they aren't going to be President.
All you anti-Rudy folks would be better off spending your time being FOR somebody than merely parroting the same few irrelevant smears on Rudy.
It doesn't matter what the next President will think about abortion. It's a non-issue within the oval office.
It doesn't matter what Rudy thinks about guns, if there still is no agenda for gun control. I don't see that being on the table.
Rudy is against an amendment to the constitution regarding marriage. Well... so am I. I don't believe in legislation via amendment. It's the wrong way to do it.
Here's how it will go: There's a lot of Republicans that are going to get lathered into a frenzy about a bunch of irrelevant things, only to make sure they stay angry because they didn't get somebody super conservative up within striking distance. Giuliani will win the Presidency by a healthy margin, and the right will have a bitter and angry component that will continue to do the ONLY thing we do so well: whine and moan and bellyache. But still DO nothing.
What will tick off some conservatives the most is that President Giuliani will actually be OK. He won't do anything about gun control or abortion or gayness because I don't think he cares much about those issues. He'll be fiscally sound, and a powerful voice of leadership in the war. He won't compromise there, and that's what I care most about.
Boo to the fetus wing.
BTTT!
bttt
So far, he's the best of the bunch, but he is not viable, due to his lack of name recognition and his Buchananite views on free trade.
How about ~here~ instead. :-)
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NOW is the time for the debate over who should be the Rep. candidate in '08.
The frontrunner will emerge over the next several months and it very well may be Rudy.
If Rudy gets the nomination, the debate will be over and he will get the overwhelming majority of support of Republicans and Independents as well as a substantial percentage of Dem. support.
The Republicans who are now bitterly opposed to Rudy will vote for him or will be to blame for the Surrender in the War on Terror and President Hillary.
Spoken like a true North East Republican. What they consider to be a repub up North is what I consider socialist/liberal scum.
God help us, the fate of our nation is in the hands of sheep.
Yes, we need to nominate a centrist to win--in the tradition of the victorious centrist GOP standard bearers of 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1960, and 1996.
Welcome back to the planet. A very large amount of factual data out there indicates that you truly out of touch.
You live in a fantasy world, don't you?
Is your guy running against ~me~?
I don't think it's going to matter who we hate. What should matter is who and what we're FOR.
Here's some news for you. Most of the people in this country don't live in Nu Yawk. Rudi hasn't seemed to grasp that fact.
You don't 'think' do you?
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