Posted on 09/18/2007 6:24:39 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has pulled to within three points of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. A month ago, Romney had a twelve-point edge.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows that Romney is the top choice for 25% of Likely Primary Voters while Giuliani is preferred by 22%. Nineteen percent (19%) prefer the newest entrant in the race, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson while 12% favor Arizona Senator John McCain. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is at 4% in the poll while four other candidates split 5% of the national vote. Thirteen percent (13%) of voters are not sure how they will vote.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of New Hampshires Republican Primary voters say that Thompson should not have skipped a debate in New Hampshire to announce his candidacy on the Tonight Show. Twenty-five percent (25%) say it was a good decision while 35% are not sure.
However, 77% say that Thompsons position on the issues will matter more to New Hampshire voters than his decision to skip the debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Thompson is splitting the vote in NH, pulling away some Romney supporters, making it a stronger possibility that Giuliani will win in NH. Way to go.
Well, then why doesn’t Slick Willard do the right thing for his country and drop out? I mean, if that’s such a problem.
A bunch of his support will probably continue to go to Hillary anyway, since she seems to have proposed making RomneyCare national yesterday.
Wow! That looks fun. I think that I'll discard reasoning and logic and fail to make distinctions between Hillary and other candidates too. Hmmmm...
< mocking tone >You know, Fred Thompson is a Washington insider ATTORNEY just like Hillary. He, like Hillary, is running a campaign for President. He's also a member of a political party, just like Hillary. He has served in the very same U.S. Senate as Hillary too. And they both have all kinds of proposals about everything from healthcare to the War. They're just so much alike, I tell ya. < /mocking tone >
Save your breath, he is a troll.
No need. You already discarded both when you decided to support a political opportunist from Massachusetts.
Yawn. Let me know when Fred Thompson puts forth a plan requiring people to have health insurance.
I said it MUCH earlier this year, but I see a solid chance that before the first primary vote is cast, more than one pundit will use the word “coronation” to describe Fred’s situation.
Polls are all nice and fine, but is Fred ever going to have the guts to debate these guys? He seems awfully good at hiding.
These pundits are shameless. First he waited too long; then he’s not catching on; then, he is afraid to debate; then he does not have enough money; the his staff is is in disarray; then, it is nothing but a coronation. And they will act as if that has been what they were saying all along.
I think the national polls are going to drag Romney down even faster in Iowa and New Hampshire. When it becomes clear he does not have a chance, people will not be willing to tramp out in the snow in January to a caucus to support him. It is so obvious that Fred will be the beneficiary that I do not even want to call it a prediction.
Somebody needs to break the news to him gently: Mitt, you are not catching on....Endorse Fred and hope for a Cabinet post like HUD or Commerce.
“You obviously know nothing about the 89 or 93 mayoral races in New York City”
Comparing the New York Mayoral election to a Republican primary shows how little you know. Republican primaries are dominated by conservatives. New York mayoral elections are dominated by liberals. The positions that will get a candidate elected in New York will render him “toast” in a Republican primary. The same strategy that would work for him in New York is not going to sell to the very conservative voters in a Republican primary. You can book it. I have been to three Republican conventions and know the kinds of people who are elected delegates, and they are not the kind that will support Rudy. Not ever.
BTW, I do know one thing about the 89 and 93 NYC mayoral elections. In ‘89, your guy Rudy was beaten by “General” David Dinkins, a real electoral powerhouse. LOL.
Fred Thompson, on the other hand, has never lost a political race and has crushed his opposition twice in U.S. Senate races in a democratic state by 22 points each time.
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