Posted on 08/04/2005 1:01:26 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Both John McCain and Rudy Giuliani would whip Hillary Clinton or John Kerry in a 2008 presidential race, a new Gallup Poll reveals.
The two Republicans each received 50 percent of the vote in a trial match-up with Sen. Clinton, who received 45 percent.
Sen. McCain and former New York City Mayor Giuliani did even better when matched up with Sen. Kerry, pulling in 54 percent of the vote compared to Kerry’s 41 percent.
The survey showed that McCain and Giuliani both enjoy strong support among independent swing voters, who gave the two Republicans at least 50 percent of their votes, while Clinton attracted 41 percent and Kerry just 38 percent.
How did real conservatives do in the poll?
Now I'm worried. Polls are always wrong.
Silly poll, none of these candidates will survive the primary
Good. Just think what a real Republican can do.
McCain is a joke!
Republicans win. Conservatives lose.
If you elect McPain or Guiliani, you might as well elect hitlery or J-FinK.............
LMAO! Even a hated Rhino beats Hillary. This poll has to worry democrats, at least those Democrats that understand that "real Republican's" weren't even part of the poll
I do not see a real republican in that match up.
so is newsmax
Allen/Condi for 08
I don't get it. Who are the Republican candidates in that poll?
"Allen/Condi for 08"
Are you joking?
If Conservatives want to lose the 2008 and beyond elections, the above team ought to do it. Condi is no vice presidential material.
"How did real conservatives do in the poll?"
THAT'S the real question. McCain and Guiliana are both RINOs who don't appeal to true conservatives, but do appeal to the so-called "independent" voters who think politicians will be more civil and the country will run better if the President is more compromising (i.e., squishy) on issues. Makes me crazy.
Dang, you beat me by five minutes.
Allen/Rudy.
How are the twins?
You mean gnaw off.
That would be a stay home election.
I think the point of this poll is ANYONE would win against the voodoo witch.
We're doomed!
no.. if it was which foot you'd have a right and left choice. mcpain/ hitlery would be the decision between your left hand and left foot.
Condi/ Karl Rove That's the ticket.
I do not think Hillary, in national polling, has ever broken 45% to 47%. There is no way you can win a national election without 50% or more.
HA!! What does Dick Morris say??? If he says we win, THEN we are up the creek!
Cool!
He's smarter and better prepared than his enemies. This guy is no chump.
So the main complaint is he's pro-abortion? Please, Reagan was anti-abortion and 20 years later, nothings changed.
Theya re great, eating and growing.
I don't dismiss Giuliani, but Condi/Rove would be much more exciting. Can you imagine the tin hat crap the democrats will "foil" their campaign with? And the racist slurs will give us 100% of the black vote.
Big smile for you!
Neither of these bozos will be running in the general election in 2008...
Blacks are so used to the slurs (Ala Chris Rock, etc) That I think having condi may push the black vote as high as 11%.
Conservatives lose.
We're coiling up for the strike at an unknown date. But you'll know it when it arrives.
LOL. That is well put.
We have a long ways to go until '08. Look at the ammo the Democrats have handed us already. It's hard to imagine just how many load fleet supply ships we'll have by '08.
Democrats will put clowns on the stage, All we have to do is put people up that they fear.
Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Allen. Four Republican Winners.
This person will have to win the primaries.
RE: "So the main complaint is he's [Giuliani] pro-abortion?"
And anti-second amendment. In fact, I can't think of a single Repub Party platform position that he actually supports.
If John McCain gets the nomination, I am stayinh home on election day.
Keep going...
I could beat Hillary Clinton in 08. I have yet to meet anyone who would vote for her (and I live in Boston!)
Scenario: Hollywood eventually turns on the Mullahs and 'Freedom Fighters' they so dearly love today.
In a desperate gambit to maintain economic relevance, the MSM will be forced to market Mom's, Apple pie and Ol' Glory.
The tide begins to turn. This will carry even into the World Media as the Reuters and al jazira's of the world continue to wither. Each terrorist attack becomes another nail in the coffin of extremism.
Democracy take root, begins to flourish in the M.E.
The Left's handwringing and gloom-mongering will serve only to provide a bit of pathos for subplots in a newly inspired genre of Films that espouse such concepts as morality, patriotism, and positivity.
All of this will force a steady, relentless division of the current bastions and strongholds of Liberalism, relegating the hard Leftists to increasingly smaller, fractured, special interest groups. -Each crying out for their own individual needs. Each more annoying, intolerable and irrelevant than the next, and ALL of them, completely without voice.
In 2010, people will look back at the Democratic Party of today, with the sort of bemusement with which we regard 70's hair and bad Disco.
You heard it here first Folks ;>
I do not think Hillary, in national polling, has ever broken 45% to 47%. There is no way you can win a national election without 50% or more.
Didn't Clinton beat Dole in 1996 election with 49.24 percent of popular vote?
Dude, you can't post something like that and leave me hanging. More info, please.
I actually find it a bit disconcerting that Hillary manages 45%, even in such a meaningless early poll.
If Iraq is a mess, and the economy isn't clearly strong enough to counter Dem/media spin, then people will be much more willing to buy into Hillary's phony-moderate show.
Big deal. Neither McCain or Giuliani have a chance of getting the nomination.
If the democrats run with someone other than a Northeastern liberal, the GOP is in trouble.
Hillary! and Kerry will bring out the anti-Clinton or anti-Kerry votes. Anyone can beat these two.
However if the democrats run with someone like Bill Richardson, and the GOP runs with a RINO, the GOP voters will stay home.
McCain would be torn apart because of the Keating scandal. Guliani would be torn apart because of his marital nonsense.
"Didn't Clinton beat Dole in 1996 election with 49.24 percent of popular vote? "
Yea but Ross Perot was on the ballot and got 8.4% of the vote!
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