I drive a HumScursion and I replaced the windshield wiping fluid with high sulfur diesel and also also added many after-market accessories to reduce fuel efficiency.
Yes. My cat tells me and then I tell clutchfans. But I still can't figure out who had the most to gain by telling my cat... Interesting theory about Hillary. Explain it so we can debate and discuss the relative merits of one person not floating a made up story over the merits of another not doing so.
True - unless it was the RNC or some such generic GOP organization. That said, as you said, I doubt the GOP would be involved in this at this point. I'll be curious to see if this story goes anywhere.
Trick or Treat... http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F724BA67-3048-5C12-0026BE808798ACAC Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds By: David Paul Kuhn October 31, 2007 07:03 PM EST One year before voters go to the polls to select the next president, the Republican Party is as weak as it has been in a generation, a detailed new poll suggests. In a hypothetical match-up between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, bloc after bloc of traditionally Republican voters break for Clinton: She wins the South. She polls evenly with voters who attend church at least once a week. She splits families with a household income above $100,000. She loses rural voters and men — but only by a narrow margin. All are constituencies Republicans have dominated for decades; George W. Bush won each by double-digit margins. The findings from The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press remain preliminary, considering even the primaries are still two months off. But Pew questioned an unusually large number of voters to try to paint the most accurate picture possible of where the presidential contest stands today. Should the race continue down its current trajectory, the poll finds Clinton defeating Giuliani by eight percentage points. Other recent polls, however, have placed Giuliani ahead of Clinton in a head-to-head race. But those polls predict Clinton would beat Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney. And Barack Obama would defeat Giuliani — though narrowly — according to at least four polls taken in October. In fact, Democrats hold a marked advantage over Republicans in the eyes of voters. In July 2004, the Democratic Party had a slight lead as the party “better able to manage the federal government” and as the party that is “more honest and ethical.” Today Democrats lead both categories by double-digit margins. By even larger margins, Democrats are seen as the party “more concerned about people like me” (by 29 percentage points) and the party best able to bring about “needed change” (by 22 percentage points). Other polling has also showed that for the first time in decades Americans now see the two parties as equally qualified to face down national security threats — erasing the “security advantage” Republicans have long relied on. Republican insiders dismiss the findings as “largely irrelevant” because they come so far before Election Day. “I don’t take comfort in any of the numbers that are out there right now, but I also don’t put much stock in them because it is so premature,” said Rep. Adam Putnam (Fla.), the number-three Republican in the House. “It’s very early in the race, and we would all be shocked if the South went for Clinton,” said Michael Dimock, Pew’s associate director of research. One factor the poll “reflects is the lack of focus among Republicans right now,” he said. That lack of focus is visible when partisans are asked to rate their own political camp. Only 36 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say the GOP “does an excellent or good job” of “standing up for traditional GOP positions” on issues like reducing the size of government, cutting taxes, and promoting conservative social issues. That’s a decline of 25 points since July 2004. In fact, it’s the lowest Republican rating for the GOP since Pew began tracking the issue in 2000. If it turns out to be a subway race between Giuliani and Clinton, Pew further found that two-thirds of Republicans say their vote for the Republican would be more accurately described as a vote “against Clinton” and “not for Giuliani.” Yet, as Dimock notes, “Republican enthusiasm and engagement could really turn and that’s the big unknown at this point.” Democrats do not have a significantly better view of their party than Republicans do of the GOP, but Democrats have long been skeptical of their tribe. Republicans, however, have become “increasingly negative,” as Pew puts it, about their party. And they are falling behind in the party loyalty stakes, Pew interviews of some 20,000 Americans this year have found. About a third of voters call themselves Democrats and a quarter call themselves Republicans — but when independents’ leanings are added to the mix, roughly half of Americans lean Democratic and only 36 percent lean Republican. That Democratic advantage in party identity is larger than at any time since tracking began in 1990. Bush’s poor approval ratings are a factor. His approval rating has dropped from around 50 percent in October 2003 to about 30 percent today. That is roughly equal to Jimmy Carter's ratings at the low point of the 1979 energy crisis and Richard Nixon's in the worst days of Watergate. Additionally, the unpopular war in Iraq, the lack of a clear Republican front-runner and dismay among some conservatives about the authenticity of leading GOP candidates all play a role in the Democrats’ powerfully fortified position today. Pew conducted its survey of 2,007 adults from Oct. 17 to Oct. 23. The sample size was nearly twice that of a normal poll.
Was that poll taken before or after Hillaroid fell on her face last night in the Philly debate? She got slaughtered. HILLARY: NO TRUTH. NO TROOPS. NO TESTES.
Excellent! You seem to be following Hillary's campaign pretty closely. Are you frustrated with your choice of republicans and looking for a candidate to back?
any bush supporter like tradertexx will love hillary. i bet he is even contributing to her campaign like rupert murdoch. trader is like a first grade school boy who goes around picking on and making fun of the girl he likes (hillary).
To be fair, this race is very close - far closer than Clinton vs. any other GOP person, mainly because Giuliani can steal a lot of moderate votes. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/01/clinton-v-giuliani-who-beats-who/ WASHINGTON (CNN) — Who holds the advantage if the two leading presidential candidates from both parties become the eventual nominees? Two polls out Wednesday offer differing answers. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani would best New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head match up, 45 to 43 percent. Meanwhile a Pew Poll out Wednesday reports a different result, showing Clinton with an 8 point lead over Giuliani, 51 to 43 percent. It's not entirely clear why the polls show such different results, though Pew conducted their survey earlier in the month than Quinnipiac and included a larger sample size. Pew's poll surveyed 2,007 Americans from October 17-23 while Quinnipiac surveyed 1,636 from October 23-29. Pew's poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent and Quinnipiac’s margin of error is 2.4 percent
Frankly, I'm disappointed with everyone. On the Dems, I'd like to believe in Obama. At this point, he'd get my vote based on integrity and the possibility that their might be real change in the tone and style of Washington. He's a bit on the far-left side for me on the issues, and that concerns me with a Dem congress (I'm a big proponent of divided government if you have competent leaders like in the 1990s). I think Hillary's views are most moderate on the Dem side (I'm very moderate-left), but I don't like the idea of going through 4-8 more years of partisan hell, and that will undoubtedly happen since she's such a divisive figure. I want new blood. Plus, I think she's very politiciany - not terribly honest, ethical, etc. Edwards is just in over his head, I think. He's a great guy for bringing his issues to the table, but I don't see him as a President. On the GOP side, I originally thought Giuliani would be OK if he'd quit trying to cater to the religious right and stop building everything around 9/11, but the reality is that's who he is. I think he could be a capable leader and all, but I see a lot of Bush in him - justifying everything through fear, terrorism, etc. I actually think McCain would be a pretty good President, but he's not the best campaigner. I probably like Romney the best, as far as the GOP goes. Don't know enough about Huckabee. I was really hoping Bloomberg and/or Newt would run - I think they would be very interesting. I was really excited when there was talk about Bloomberg / Hagel as an independent 3rd party. That would be awesome, in my opinion. So all in all, I'd say Obama right now, but I want to know more about what kind of policy he'd try to implement. Beyond that, if we're going to have a strong Dem congress, I'd kind of like a moderate Republican President (a Romney type), although my desire for split government is being challenged by the insanity of this Bush admin & Dem congress. I thought our government ran best in the 1990s with Newt and Clinton having to compromise and pass policies that were supported by both sides. You got a commitment to balancing the budget, real welfare reform, etc. I don't like the idea of far-right policies getting through or far-left policies getting through, and with the need for SS reform and the like coming up, I really hope we come up with something where both parties are forced to work together to come up with a reasonable solution.
