If your primary was held today, for whom would you vote? Please only vote in this poll if you're likely to vote in a Republican primary. Candidates are listed alpha by last name. The poll only allows ten options, so I included the ten most likely candidates and didn't have room for longshots like Condi Rice or George Pataki.
You certainly like knowing how people vote, don't you, BJ? I don't think I've ever seen a poll you have started that wasn't public.
At home, cuz he's smart enough not to hitch his wagon to the pathetic joke that the GOP has become on the national level.
Isn't it early for this kind of poll? I mean, the lying...err...campaigning hasn't really gotten hot and heavy yet.
This is interesting... so far, it looks like the true believers tend to gravitate to Rudy while the more mainstream Repubs are moving towards McCain. One would think McCain would get more true believers since that's the way he's been tacking the last 2 years and one would think that Rudy would get less, since his social views don't mesh well with the traditional GOP base while also picking up more mainstream types. It's like the two leading candidates are mirror images of mirror images of their party's divisions.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that Giuliani will decide not to run! You heard it here first!
One who buys into the President's rhetoric about the War even though there is massive evidence to the contrary.
He would be better off not running for POTUS. With the abundance of skeletons in his closet, he'd get skewered.
RG and Romney have both come out in favor of the surge even if it was McCain's idea. Rudy also said that when 9/11 happened he woke up and thanked God that Bush was president. In fact, Rudy has been as solid a supporter of Bush's war as anyone. Even if he has been quieter about it than McCain, he also has not criticized war strategy or tactics as much as McCain has. He's a perfect basso candidate as he's been solidy supportive of the failed war as well as being pro-choice and pro-gay rights (which basso claims to be more than anyone on the BBS - LMAO). The former makes him a great primary candidate and a lousy general election one and the latter makes him a decent general election candidate and a totally unacceptable primary one. mc mark: I've also suggested Rudy might not run but I'd put the odds around 60-40 that he will. I think he'd have a much better shot at an independent candidacy than a GOP one though. Though they seem to happily forgive personal history that is clearly at odds with GOP family values rhetoric, too many nuts vote in the GOP primaries for his social positions to fly.
I would have liked to have included him and I hope he runs, but the poll only allows 10 choices and I couldn't justify ranking him higher than the 10 I listed.
What I find interesting is all the yelling about Obama not having enough national experience and yet not one word or criticism from those same naysayers about Rudy and the amount of national experience he has (which is pretty much nil). No not interesting...odd. [edit] Here's Rothenberg's take on a Rudy run
