http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1019 [rquoter]February 21, 2007 - Giuliani Tops Clinton In 2008 Presidential Race, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Republican Runs Strong In Red, Blue And Purple States Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani leads Sen. Hillary Clinton 48 - 43 percent among American voters in a 2008 national presidential poll released by Quinnipiac University today. Arizona Sen. John McCain edges Sen. Clinton 46 - 44 percent. Giuliani tops Clinton 55 - 38 percent in Red states, which voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election, and ties her 46 - 46 percent in Blue states, which went Democratic in 2004. He gets 44 percent to Clinton's 45 percent in Purple states, where the margin in 2004 was less than 7 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. In other possible presidential matchups: * Clinton tops former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 49 - 37 percent; * Giuliani beats Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 47 - 40 percent; * Giuliani tops 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards 48 - 40 percent; * McCain ties Obama 43 - 43 percent; * McCain gets 43 percent to Edward's 42 percent, a tie; * Obama tops Romney 49 - 29 percent; * Edwards beats Romney 48 - 32 percent. "After 9/11, Rudolph Giuliani earned the title 'America's Mayor.' After the 2008 election, he could be America's President," said Maurice Carroll, Director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "But we vote in November 2008, not February 2007 - and lots of things can happen. Let's watch the state-by-state breakdown and the Electoral College. Remember 2000?" "When we look at the Red, Blue and Purple state matchups, we see Giuliani running strong in any color, while Sen. Clinton outpoints Sen. McCain in Blue and Purple states. Sen. Obama and John Edwards are in the middle somewhere and Mitt Romney is nowhere, actually losing to Obama and Edwards in Red states, where voters probably just don't know the former Massachusetts governor." Clinton gets 38 percent of Democratic primary voters, followed by Obama with 23 percent, former Vice President Al Gore with 11 percent and Edwards with 6 percent. Giuliani gets 40 percent of Republicans, followed by McCain with 18 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 10 percent and Romney at 7 percent. American voters give Giuliani a 57 - 21 percent favorability rating. Favorability ratings for other contenders are: * 46 - 45 percent for Clinton; * 51 - 22 percent for McCain; * 44 - 14 percent for Obama, with 40 percent who haven't heard enough to form an opinion; * 44 - 27 percent for Edwards; * 44 - 47 percent for Gore; * 22 - 47 percent for Gingrich; * For Romney, 67 percent haven't heard enough to form an opinion. [/rquoter]
Trouble For Giuliani: Most Republicans *Don't* Know His Position On Abortion This has been the big question -- were Republicans aware of Giuliani's pro-choice position and just cool with it or did they really not know? FoxNews asked the question -- a majority either incorrectly thinks he's pro-life (21%) or doesn't know (36%). http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/021507_release_web.pdf Got a lot of flippin to do...
Interesting stuff. Most interesting, to me, are the fav/unfav ratings. Hillary's 45% unfavorable doesn't seem to give her a lot of upside. Guiliani, Mccain, and Obama seem to have the most upside with relatively low unfavorable ratings. lAso interesting is that Guiliani tied Hillary in blue states, but also that Dems seem to generally do better in the Purple than the Blue states if you look at the data.
It won't be enough for the likes of stupidmoniker. I think the way he’s going to try and get around the issue is by saying that although he’s for a woman’s right to choose (please don’t say I’m for abortion) he also is in favor of appointing strict constructionist judges to the bench. Code for overturning R v W.
I don't think the cons really care that much this time around. The alternatives are McCain and Romney. Neither can win in the general election. Giuliani can get a pass with his 9/11 heroics which no other republicans can ever match. I say Giuliani in 2008 and our party in Iraq continues....
I don't think it is necessary. If Bush can't overturn Roe vs Wade, no one in this field can. Why bother? Just pick the lesser of two evils. Plus, Giuliani showed his competency in 9/11.
The Republicans have catered their party to the evangelicals since Regan. I can't see them tossing that aside. If they do the evangelicals will through their support behind another candidate thus splitting the Republican base, which never works out well for the party that has a split base. On the other hand Rudy will probably do well with the independents. Should be fun
Rudy Rutager was a great inspiration for many Notre Dame football fans in the mid-70s. I think he would make a wonderful President.
Well this poll certainly makes the liberal media out to be incredibly biased for their unabashed idol-worship of Obama. Revealing that they are so out of touch with reality...
I agree. Giuliani could win the national election but might not be able to win the Republican nomination. I have a hard time seeing Republican primary and caucus voters throwing aside their objections to his stands on social issues just to win. At the same time they have another candidate who has a good shot at winning and is fairly solid on conservative issues, McCain. Giuliani is going to have to count on crossover support from Democrats in a national election as likely many conservatives will stay home like they did in 1992.
The best the Republicans can do is a pro abortion, gay rights, married three times adulterer,ex Democrat that wants to ride the coattails of a failed war to the presidency. Good Luck with that
Speaking of out of touch you do realize that other than the war Giuliani isn't that far on the liberal scale from Obama. Anyway polls now aren't worth the low paid wages of the callers. We've got a long long way to go.
on social issues, yes. but rudy's a conservative on business and security issues- quite different from obama.
Pro security and conservative on business issues does not mean spend money like drunk on a useless war and sleep in the same bed with the big business like the current administration.
