If the 2008 presidential election were held today, Republican Rudy Giuliani would beat Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton according to a nationwide poll conducted by Canisius College. Of the 455 respondents who volunteered an answer regarding the 2008 match-up, Giuliani received 54 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 38 percent. Michael V. Haselswerdt, PhD, professor of political science at Canisius and co-director of the poll, notes “Clinton loses among voters in the red states, which is no surprise, but Giuliani breaks even in the blue states.” The Canisius poll also shows that only 27 percent of Americans think the nation is...