[FairOpinion]

Some interesting indications...

Note that McCain is WAY behind Giuliani, Hillary and Obama.

[yldstrk]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.........

[Spiff]

So, is Saturday your scheduled day for campaigning for the most liberal GOP presidential candidate EVER? Did areafiftyone get the day off today or something?

[dc-zoo]

Likable everywhere but FR.

[zook]

It might have just been a New Hampshire poll, but Fox showed a poll tonight with McCain and Giuliani running neck and neck around 28-29%

[Man50D]

The polls accurately reflect the attitude of voters considering the election is so close. LOL!

[Mogollon]

The fact that Guliani is more popular than McCain still doesn't help the fact that Guliani is pro-abortion, anti 2nd amendment, pro-amnesty, and pro civil union for gays. He may be good on taxes, and the WOT.

There has got to be a better conservative out there.

[Dominic Harr]

Rudy has "charisma", I think there is no denying it.

I know a fella who saw Rudy speak about running NY hospitals to a healthcare conference. He said Rudy was the best speaker he'd seen, maybe better than Clinton, whose style he was impressed with.

Man, it's a long ways, but Rudy shore nuff does have a head of steam . . .

[johnthebaptistmoore]

This poll isn't accurate because a majority of people don't even know everything there is to know about every major Presidential candidate yet! There are still people who haven't even started running for President yet-give or take whatever you want from that!

[narses]

I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights, Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. “No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing,” he responded. Source: CNN.com, “Inside Politics” Dec 2, 1999 http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Rudy_Giuliani_Abortion.htm

ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES (November 14, 2006)

RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: I'm pro- choice. I'm pro-gay rights.

KING: Giuliani supports a woman's right to an abortion, and back in 1999, he opposed a federal ban on late-term abortions.

GIULIANI: No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.

KING: Immigration could be another presidential landmine. Back in 1996, Mayor Giuliani went to federal court to challenge new federal laws requiring the city to inform the federal government about illegal immigrants.

JEFFREY: He took the side of illegal immigrants in New York City against the Republican Congress.

KING: Giuliani opposes same-sex marriage but as mayor, he supported civil unions and extending health and other benefits to gay couples. He also supported the assault weapons ban and other gun control measures opposed by the National Rifle Association.

GIULIANI: I'm in favor of gun control. I'm pro-choice.

Republican Big-Wigs Support Pro-Abortion Event in NY

Pro-abortion Governor George Pataki and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also supports unrestricted abortion, are co-chairs of the 2000 Choice Award Presentation to be held on May 30 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. The event is sponsored by the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, a group that is campaigning for the removal of the pro-life plank from the Republican National Platform.


http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200503010743.asp

[TAdams8591]

If my candidate peaked this early, I'd be REALLY worried! : )

[CharlesWayneCT]

Rasmussen also says we don't have to waste our time watching baseball this year -- "Poll: 16% Pick Bronx Bombers to Win World Series".

Apparently New York is going to win. No point in backing a loser. Go Pinstripes!!!

[TomGuy]

31% for Giuliana and 30% for Clinton?

That leaves 69% and 70%, respectively, who are still looking elsewhere. That is far from a landslide mandate for either.

[CharlesWayneCT]

A complete discussion of the poll being re-reported by this article can be found in this thread:

Poll: Giuliani Has Biggest Base of Support, Lowest Base of Opposition

I'm guessing we don't care, and will have the same discussion here again, because we don't have anything better to do with our time than to re-post the same polls over and over under different guises so we can all talk about them again.

[dmw]

DG, you mentioned on another thread that the Rudygogaga fans don't spam here, or very rarely do. So, what do you call it when Fair Opinion and areafiftyone come here day after day posting dozens of articles in favor of RINO Rudy? My definition of spam is when liberals come here and post a gazillon articles promoting their candidate on a forum where a good 70% of it's members have indicated that they do not support Rudy. Most of us here are conservatives and we really don't care to see this liberal propaganda posted here 24/7 (I know it's allowed, but it's unwanted). It would seem to me that if a majority of the people here don't support Rudy, and yet these two individuals continue to post articles that the majority of us find irritating and unwanted, that would be considered spam.

Explain to me, if you will, why you don't consider the ceaseless posting of pro-Rudy articles spam, but everything that's posted by our side is called spam?

[citizencon]

that is, in the absence of a really more likable candidate, that is...

[motormouth]

A floating turd is more likable than Hillary or Obama...not so sure I would take this poll as an indication of much.


MM

[hosepipe]

Only an American Woman on Ditz patrol would see LIKABILITY as a presidential qualification..

Sadly MOST American Women fit that mold..
With Hispanic Women its probably, Hair thing..
Most democrats are women and most liberals are women..

[Charles Martel]

Y'know, sometimes a liberal will make an accurate observation - for all the wrong reasons. I recently saw Chris Rock on television, commenting that of the candidates, he liked Obama. Asked about Rudy, he responded (paraphrased): "Rudy is great in a crisis... he's like a Pit Bull. Which is great if, for example, someone is breaking into your house. If there's no crisis, though, the Pit Bull might eat the children."

That could just as easily have been the misgivings of a conservative, given Rudy's stated positions on some very crucial issues.

[ken21]

the democraps will win the presidency in 2008 because:

1. of the animus that bush has built up, amplified by the democrap media,

2. and conservatives will rebel against any moderate republican candidate.

[onyx]

Well, the fact that he's likable is the primary concern of those who hate him because voters like to vote for candidates they like and they're more likely to overlook the likable candidate's flaws.