Posted on 10/16/2007 10:17:02 AM PDT by Kuksool
Hillary Clinton leads Rudy Giuliani 51% to 40% in an early look at the race for New Jersey’s Electoral Votes. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that Clinton has larger leads over other Republican Presidential hopefuls. She leads Fred Thompson by eighteen points (53% to 35%), John McCain by sixteen (52% to 36%), and Mitt Romney by twenty-four (55% to 41%).
Clinton is viewed favorably by 58% of Garden State voters while Giuliani earns positive reviews from 59%. Fifty percent (50%) offer a positive assessment of both Thompson and McCain while 39% express a favorable opinion of Romney.
Seventy-seven percent (77%) of the state’s voters say it’s at least Somewhat Likely that Democrats will win New Jersey in Election 2008. Only 12% say it’s not likely.
Before that, however, there are state legislative elections featuring corruption and property tax relief as leading issues. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters say corruption is the top issue while 36% are more interested in property taxes. However, they don’t have much faith in either political party to address either issue.
Thirty-three percent (33%) say they trust Democrats more on the corruption issue while 29% prefer the GOP. Thirty-three percent (33%) don’t trust either party and 5% are not sure.
You don’t have to trust me on this, but I forecast the same thing in 04, and as the NE is swinging ever more blue, Florida is swinging ever more red.
Much of the influx to the rapidly growing state of Florida is from liberal state refugees who are fed up and left.
The myth of retirees coming here by the millions and bringing NY with them is overstated.
There are very few democrat legislators at all.
I feel the same way in reverse about NJ. It ain’t going red.
I live in Scott Garrett’s district. Our town is so Republican, we have two Republican Parties, because the actual Republicans aren’t Republican enough for some voters here.
You misunderstand. Actually, it is a reason NOT to nominate Rudy and a reason to nominate Ron Paul....that is if you want to have a ghost of chance of defeating Hillary.
You’re right in one respect about Hillary. Not so deep down she is a hawk. She certainly was one on Kosovo when most freepers (sensibly) were doves. Actually, she is something of a neo-con (who after all also started as socialists). For this reason, Hillary is extremely vulnerable to a general election candidate such as Ron Paul who expose both the dangerous consequences of her socialism and her messianic neo-conservatism. No other Republican can pull this off.
Just keep in mind, all those "Catholic Socialists" in Weimar Germany who didn't like the candidates of their party because they weren't pure enough stayed home and elected Hitler. It can, and does, happen all the time.
Does this mean that Hillary can be president of new jersey ?
If he gets the nomination, I’ll vote for him. I’m not going to throw a tantrum.
Hillary's not a "neo-con", she's not a hawk... she's a Stalinist monster.
Billy Kristol and the Commentary and the Weekly Standard crowd were very much for the Kosovo adventure. Heck, Kristol even threatened to leave the GOP because of their dovishness on Kosovo. While you are right to write that all neo-cons are pro-Israel, they are also ardent Wilsonians and Kosovo, like Iraq, was sold as a Wilsonian expeiment in the service of the “rule of law” and “democracy.”
I hope you are right about Florida going more “red” but I’m worried that the foreign immigrants might be greater than the lib state refugees . . .
Kristol was pretty much on an island in ‘99. There was no wide-spread “neo-con” (Jew) support for bombing Yugoslavia.
And Iraq wasn’t some Wilsonian adventure like a Kosovo, anyway. It was a direct response to an attack on the United States. That’s all the difference in the world.
Interesting post. - While (hillary!) is indeed the type that likes to smack around those who do not play her way, she also loathes the military and put that loathing on full display at the WH.
In fact, the SS didn’t like to be around her at all, and her husband certainly did the military no favors at all anywhere, anytime, anyplace.
Our soldiers stood on the deck with unloaded weapons, on clinton's orders, as bombers sailed toward them and saluted them before they were incinerated, our soldiers were dragged through the streets in Mogadishu, and the clintons turned tail and ran like the cowards that they are.
Of course they are good at using the various police forces to come after say, YOU - look at Ruby Ridge Reno - but a genuine hawk willing to build up and maintain a well functioning military? Ah... no.
While I have nothing against him, Ron Paul is not going to break single digits and would, in fact, be outvoted by Ralph Nader if they both choose to run in 08.
And I do mean that. Most liberals are really fascists who demand that their view must be obeyed by everyone and use the powers of the state and the courts to do so.
What does the word NAZI mean?
(snicker)
I'd love to see what that number is in 1996, 2000, and 2004.
Problem is, a lot of people aren't aware of this.
I’ll vote for any Republican except RuePaul (a Dem in the wrong party) and McCain-—I seriously question his mental stability.
If John Warner’s seat goes to a Democrat, both senators and the governor of VA will all be liberals.
But then they’ll have less conservatives and it will be more liberal.
The Dem party is more like Jimmy Carter.
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