We have a winner!!
I don’t get it.
I hope none of our other Republican candidates prostrate themselves in such a way.
But I suppose they will.
BTW, I put Time Russert (D), NBC, in the same category.
If it is Rudy versus Barack in the general election, I predict you will see a landslide win that will set a new election record. Will Barack win any states?
But you wait. Wait until the people find out he kills babies, hates ferrets, kisses gays, will take your gun away, and dodged the draft. Then he’ll drop like a rock in the polls. Well if having more than twice the support than your closest rival in a Rasmussen poll is a drop, I’ll take it. :-)
a 62% favorability rating is nothign to sneeze at
as Kenny Banyon from Seinfeld used to say “That’s Gold Jerry!”
good stuff here
Election 2008
Republican Candidates Running in 2008 Presidential Election
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Political%20Tracking/Favorables/RepublicanPresidentialCandidates.htm
Interesting lesson. Surely nobody in the race is as well-known as John McCain. He ran for President in 2000, he’s on the news once or twice a week, he’s known as a maverick, he’s on letterman, leno, comedy central.
If there was any candidate for which the claim “everybody knows exactly what he is and what he stands for” was true, it would be McCain.
So for those of you who argue Rudy is already well-known, people understand his positions, that there is no downside for him now, just look at the Rasmussen poll numbers for McCain.
The “electorate” perception of him as “conservative” has gone up by double-digits in 3 months. Whoa, how did so many “likely Republcian Primary Voters” suddenly learn he was a conservative? They didn’t know him already?
Also, his favorability ratings dropped like a rock in the last couple of weeks. What, people didn’t already know he supported the war, Republican Likely Primary Voters are actually learning something about McCain they don’t like? How could that be?
So don’t tell me that Rudy is so well-known that his positions are already reflected in the poll numbers. McCain was just taken out in a week by a simple media blitz about his “conservative positions”.
The Media would have a field day with Rudy, whenever they wanted to. If the media tomorrow decided to tell the public that Rudy was NOT a hero of 9/11, but was rather a person to be loathed, his numbers would drop like a rock, because people don’t have any reason for their support for him other than “The Media Told Us He’s Lovable”.
The GOP is not a pro-life party any more. If Giuliani is nominated, vote a pro-life third party.
His number is up from last week, but is still down from last month and his favorability rating was unchanged from last week. That too is down from his high of 71%.
His numbers have stagnated or declined since March. Just for a little context, in 1999 Bush went over 40% in February, over 50% in May and over 60% in June. In May of 1999 Elizabeth Dole was polling 24%. Giuliani's support is closer to Elizabeth Dole than George Bush at the same point in the cycle.
Even if he somehow manages to get the nomination I fail to see any reason for rejoicing by his supporters. If he squeaks through the primary process by winning a plurality of votes and his support continues to sag or stagnate do you honestly believe he would have the slightest chance of winning the general election?
McCain should just leave the race.
Bumpity bump!
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