Posted on 01/30/2007 5:41:01 AM PST by areafiftyone
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a strong lead over other Democratic presidential contenders in a new poll of voters in Ohio, the closely divided swing state that tipped the 2004 election for President Bush.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani, who appeared in TV ads and at fundraisers during last year's gubernatorial race, is the favorite among the state's Republican voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. He is favored by 30 percent of voters surveyed compared to 22 percent for Sen. John McCain, 11 percent for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 4 percent for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Among Ohio Democrats, 38 percent pick Clinton, 13 percent pick Sen. Barack Obama, 11 percent pick former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, and 6 percent would vote for former Vice President Al Gore. Ohio's own Rep. Dennis Kucinich gets just 2 percent of the vote, or less than the survey's margin of error.
"Those who say Sen. Hillary Clinton can't win the White House because she can't win a key swing state like Ohio might rethink their assumption," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
The institute polled 1,305 registered Ohio voters by phone from last Tuesday to Sunday. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. When results are broken down by party, the margin of error rises to plus or minus 4 percentage points for Democrats, and plus or minus 5 percentage points for Republicans.
Though she holds a strong early lead within her own party, Clinton also faces the strongest bloc of voters among the early contenders - 38 percent - who dislike her, perhaps explaining why she did not beat the poll's margin of error in any of the head-to-head match-ups tested.
The survey found hypothetical contests between Clinton and Guiliani, Clinton and McCain, Obama and McCain, and Edwards and McCain all within the margin of error.
"Given their stronger overall image, Mayor Guiliani and Sen. McCain would seem to have the potential to improve their standing," Brown said. "That might be much more difficult for Sen. Clinton because of the larger number of voters who don't like her."
The poll also found that 60 percent of Ohio voters oppose Bush's plan to send 22,000 additional troops into Iraq. Fifty-six percent say going to war in Iraq was wrong, and 65 percent dislike Bush's handling of the situation.
I think I was polled just once by Zogby but that was it.
And what makes you think that the GOP as a whole will only support a conservative?
Look friend - go get Edwards' latest speech - (are you capable) and compare with Rudy's latest stump speech.
Fine anything comparable?
NO !!!!!!!!!!
Guiliani is showing great strength in all regions of the country and that will only grow as McCain dissolves "I'm melting I'm melting". This should make you even happier in the days to come as you will have MANY opportunities to squawk.
When is the election, next week?
Oops that's right. Not until November 2008!
I read the article and right away saw that it was another MSM pro Rino/pro Hillary piece.
We live in a very different age from even 4 years ago. Most people don't rely on the MSM anymore. The internet can allow 'we the people' to generate a buzz around a candidate that we like. Not one that is being forced on us.
It apparently doesn't hold much water with Rudy, either, given he endorsed Cuomo over Pataki in 1994.
I guess you want party loyalty to only work in one direction.
You can (and should) support the candidate of your choice.
But that doesn't refute the findings of this poll.
I was not the one who made the absurd statement that Rudy's conservative critics should get behind Edwards instead.
But since someone DID make that absurd statement, I showed just how absurd it was - that Rudy shares common ground with Edwards on abortion, amnesty and gun control. Conservatives do not.
That is from his proven statements in the past. One stump speech that does not mention those issues does not wash away his past positions.
Actually Rudy supported Pataki on his second and third term. But then again you wouldn't point that out now would you?
a conservative 3rd party candidate is forced to run. [I guess you have your gun ready to point at his head since that is the only way a REAL conservative would run third party.]
I never supported Alan Keyes. Most of the folks supporting Hunter and Newt never did.
Rudy, however, supported Mario Cuomo.
So can I say about your side that the Cuomo-ites are out today?
You may now proceed to have a snit fit for having your own logical fallocy thrown back into your face.
RUDY ... ENDORSED ... A ... DEMOCRAT. How is that upholding Reagan's 11th commandment?
Hunkin Dunter won't win ONE primary. Then who are you going to blame for that obvious result.
It's a long, long ways off to be claiming that.
From your home page: "Very conservative - but I love to be out debated - so try - I won't be offended - so don't let me ever offend you - please."
Somehow I doubt you are Very conservative and a Rudy supporter. It doesn't pass the smell test....
Well maybe Rudy knew something we didn't know about Pataki. I didn't see anyone here on this forum for the longest time EVER SUPPORTING PATAKI as long as he was Governor of NY. Pataki has been vilified on this forum many many times by Republicans and Conservatives here. They literally don't like him and have called him a liberal and a Democrat. You are making an issue out of nothing. Since when do you care about Pataki. They even made fun of him on 9/11 saying he was holding on to Rudy's coattails on this forum. PULEESE All of a sudden you've become a Pataki fan and are worried that Rudy didn't support him? Unbelieveable!
Polls this early are simply show name recognition. Not who is electable.
I truly find it ironic that, in response to a post where I showed that Rudy doesn't walk the walk over the 11th commandment - (and the 11th commandment was raised by YOUR side, not mine) - that you can only address my point by launching a savage attack on Pataki.
And Pataki, BTW, is pretty close to Rudy on the political spectrum.
So you just ravaged Pataki for being roughly where Rudy is politically.
It's a shame irony is lost on folks like you.
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