Posted on 03/03/2007 3:16:02 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
Giuliani up 25 points over McCain: poll
41 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani, virtually tied with John McCain (news, bio, voting record) in a January poll, held a 25-point lead over the Arizona senator in a Newsweek magazine survey released on Saturday.
Among registered Republicans, 59 percent said they backed the former New York City mayor and 34 percent said they favored McCain, who announced on Wednesday he would seek the presidency in 2008, Newsweek said.
"Most registered Republicans are not familiar with Giuliani's positions on key social issues," the magazine said, listing his support for abortion rights and gun control as examples.
"When asked about whether Giuliani's views on these same issues would be enough to prevent them from supporting him, few registered Republican voters said it would," it said.
Giuliani was in a statistical dead heat with McCain in a January 24-25 poll, with 48 percent compared to McCain's 44 percent, the magazine said.
Meanwhile, a Newsweek poll of registered Democrats showed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) chipping away at front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the past month.
Clinton enjoyed the support of 52 percent of registered Democrats in the latest poll to Obama's 38 percent. That compared with 55 percent for Clinton and 35 percent for the Illinois senator in late January, Newsweek said.
In a potential general election matchup, Giuliani was virtually tied with Clinton and former Democratic Sen. John Edwards and five points ahead of Obama in a poll of all registered voters.
Newsweek surveyed 1,202 adults on Wednesday and Thursday. The poll included 283 registered Republicans, 342 registered Democrats and 349 independents and had a margin of error of three percentage points.
So why did he yank the gun permits of **27,000** law abiding people?
I don't life in NY so I have no idea .. why don't you ask him ..??
Rudy made criminals out of people who had conceal carry permits in New York City. So it's a little more than keeping F-18s out of people's garages. Still, he doesn't seem to want to ban all guns from the face of the earth, so at least he's a little better than, say, a completely whacked-out far-left liberal.
Good job! My dad will probably vote for Hillary. But I still love him!
Nice spin. "Grenade launchers" are already controlled. He want to get his hands on whatever it is you're keeping in your nightstand to protect against burglars who can't get guns because the freaking Democrats and Rudolph Giuliani passed a law.
Yes, but he doesn't actually PERFORM abortions, so he's not as liberal on the issue as, say, Planned Parenthood.
And he's not actually in favor of gay MARRIAGES, just gay civil unions, which are different than marriages because the word union doesn't have an "m" in it.
It doesn't at the present time.
Until the Supreme Court says that the 2nd amendment also applies to state and local governments, and is not just a restriction on the federal government, then it doesn't apply to actions by the NYC authorities.
That's just the plain legal reality of the situation, and criticising reality is important, but has limited value.
But it's just registration. Registration doesn't actually take away handguns, so long as government wouldn't actually use the registration information to come after you, like some liberal mayor in New York City might do, say, to concealed weapons permit holders.
Mayor Rudumbo is a stealth candidate. He's being manufactured like sausage (only the lisping liberal twit is unfit for human consumption).
The Rudybot is carefully managed---he went to CPAC and said nothing conservative. He is allowed to say nothing that will hurt his poll numbers.
Course now that his forum stalkers are cutting and pasting this post---we "may" see The Rudybot mouth a few choice words, about nothing in particular.
If NYC doesn't want to follow the same constitution everyone else does, maybe they should move.
"But it's just registration. Registration doesn't actually take away handguns, so long as government wouldn't actually use the registration information to come after you, like some liberal mayor in New York City might do, say, to concealed weapons permit holders."
Riggggghhht.
Look up how difficult it is to buy and keep a handgun in new york. They are things the only the rich and politically connected can get. That is the kind of system he wants nationwide.
BTW, if you want to talk about taking things away, ask freeper pharmboy about rudy and guns. He had his permit yanked during Rudy's administration, but was able to keep it during the two previous democratic administrations.
How so? We mean to tell as many voters as possible, and they can decide. THe news is being spread as we post. I think the value in that is extremely limited if I want Rudy as president, don't you?
Everybody else follows the Constitution?
LOL!
I will never vote for this man!
My comment had to do with the current legal reality of what the 2nd Amendment means to states and municipalities.
It has nothing to do with news. It's about what the law of the country is today. You can't really campaign against that and have much effect. It doesn't really matter who is President concerning this particular issue.
The Supreme Court hasn't made a major ruling about the 2nd Amendment since the time of Al Capone. I'm not sure they're going to do it anytime soon, and I hope they don't unless we are fairly confident that we have a (pardon this) bullet-proof) majority.
"It doesn't really matter who is President concerning this particular issue. "
But it does matter in the people he gets to appoint to the supreme court. Does a president who thinks the 2nd amendment is a state and local control issue merely because it currently lacks 'incorporation' going to appoint judges who agree or disagree with that position?
Not exactly encouraging.
WHat about Newt? Freepers are gushing about him after his CPAC speech.
My guess, given the party leadership now in Congress, and Bush's promise to sign a bill, there will be one, so I doubt Rudy will have much involvement, nor do I see any potential legislation other than various local ordinances that will involve a President Rudy in this area. I can certainly see judicial involvement on a federal level though. My guess, and it is only that, most of the other candidates will, if questioned, admit to some limitations.
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