National Poll: Giuliani Out Front In Race For White House

NY News ^ | Feb. 22, 2007 | NY News

[FairOpinion]

The former mayor leads Clinton by five percentage points, 48 to 43.

The Republican Giuliani holds a comfortable lead in the “red states,” topping Clinton by 17 percentage points, and he is even with Clinton in “blue states.”

Giuliani has strong support among Republican voters, with 40 percent saying they are likely to vote for him.

Arizona Senator John McCain trails with 18 percent, followed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has said he may not run if Giuliani holds a commanding lead.

As for the Democrats, Clinton has the support of 38 percent of those polled. Illinois Senator Barack Obama follows with 23 percent and former Vice President Al Gore is third with 11 percent.

[FairOpinion]

Interesting new info: "Newt Gingrich, who has said he may not run if Giuliani holds a commanding lead.".

[RWR8189]

I might be more willing to accept Giuliani if someone like Gingrich was on the ticket.

[FairOpinion]

Giuliani and Newt PING


"The former mayor leads Clinton by five percentage points, 48 to 43.

... Newt Gingrich, who has said he may not run if Giuliani holds a commanding lead. "

[FairOpinion]

Giuliani/Gingrich?

G2-2008

[newzjunkey]

Wonderful, Newt... as if Rudy is even as conservative as you are.

[FairOpinion]

Newt is a realist.

Other conservatives could learn from him.

[FairOpinion]

I take great delight in seeing McCain's poll number sink.

[Catmom]

Newt's negatives are too high. It would just drag Rudy down.

[FairOpinion]

Right now it looks like Rudy might carry CA and in that case Hillary is toast.

[BunnySlippers]

((((( PING PING PING )))))

THIS IS THE RUDY PING LIST

Let me know if you want on or off

[RWR8189]

I don't know, in most cases it seems VP candidates don't effect the outcome at all.

Edwards sure didn't help Kerry in NC.

Gingrich, or another strong conservative, on the ticket could play sort of the reverse role that the more moderate Bush created on Reagan's ticket in 1980.

[Catmom]

Don't you mean creamed chipped beef on toast?

[RWR8189]

I conceded myself to a McCain candidacy quite a while ago.

I never though Rudy could catch on. I know its early, but I too take pleasure in seeing McCain implode.

[BonnieJ]

It doesn't sound like a good combo...2 with marital problems in the past. You need someone who is long-married and more conservative to be his running mate, if he gets the nomination (and I hope he does, or Romney).

[FairOpinion]

McCain was pushed by the MSM as the "ideal candidate", when in fact, if he had been the R nominee (shudder!), Hillary would have eaten him for lunch -- maybe that's exactly why the MSM was trying to con Republicans into the inevitability of a McC Republican nomination.

[Plutarch]

February 21, 2007 Quinnipiac University National Poll

[avacado]

I think that is an excellent idea! That would be a great ticket that will win.

[SaxxonWoods]

Edwards was a foolish choice. VP candidates are usually chosen to deliver a certain state that would otherwise be lost, and/or to "balance" a ticket.

Edwards did neither, and it was obvious that he would do neither. Just another example of how lucky we were to have an idiot like Kerry nominated by the Dems.

[Reagan is King]

How about a Giuliani - Hunter ticket? Giuliani's not my top pick but versus the Hildebeast being elected I might have to live with it.

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for posting the details.

Duncan Hunter doubled his numbers in the poll!

He went from 1% to 2% -- of course the margin of error of the poll is 2.5%, but "Hunter has real momentum", as some say. ;)

[EternalVigilance]

Well look! Another liberal media poll, polling liberals, showing a liberal leading a liberal! How exciting!

/s

[RWR8189]

Who is the last VP candidate to deliver a state? LBJ?

Newt, or a well known conservative like him, would obviously be a balance to some socially liberal positions of Giuliani.

[RWR8189]

The only people funnier than the Ron Paul or Tancredo crowd is people who think Duncan Hunter actually has a shot at the nomination.

[Plutarch]

Duncan Hunter doubled his numbers in the poll!

I will grudgingly admit that the 2% for DH is positive news for him. It doesn't gladden me any to see Romney mired at 7%.

[EternalVigilance]

The only people funnier than the Ron Paul or Tancredo crowd is people who think Duncan Hunter actually has a shot at the nomination.

The only people sadder than the McCain or Romney people are the people who think them or Giuliani SHOULD get the nomination.

[FairOpinion]

I was kidding.

Should have made my "wink" sign ;) bigger.

[zbigreddogz]

I agree Newt shouldn't be on the ticket, but he should be in some sort adviser position.

[Allegra]

Wow. All of this and there hasn't been a single primary yet. ;-)

[EternalVigilance]

It doesn't gladden me any to see Romney mired at 7%.

No kidding! A guy who saw gay marriage, a ban on "assault weapons" and socialized medicine all instituted on his watch should be getting at least 120% of the Republican vote, don't you think!

/s

[RWR8189]

I haven't made any decisions yet myself.

Its just a fact of life that people like Ron Paul, Tancredo, or Hunter have no shot at the nomination.

[EternalVigilance]

Could be. Which leaves nary a real Republican to vote for.

[FairOpinion]

Newt for Secretary of State?

[BnBlFlag]

Gingrich is just another "New World Order" type. (With more baggage than a Fed Ex freight airplane).

[zbigreddogz]

Sec. of State requires a bit less of an ego then Newt has. I'd rather see him as Sec. of Education or something related to domestic policy.

Honestly, I think he'd serve best in an unofficial position. Something along the lines of Karl Rove, but having less to do with elections and more to do with policy.

[zbigreddogz]

Do me a favor: Stop using the term "New World Order". It's a meaningless term invented by the Pat Robertson crowd to denounce anything they didn't like.

I mean, really, what does it mean? Can you really say anything concrete about it? Because if you can, you are the first.

[Mia T]

Newt's negatives are too high. It would just drag Rudy down.

Exactly, Catmom. bump.

Newt is the only R extant with a Q score lower than hillary's.
For Newt to win, he must run against a toad.... ;)

And has he ever held an executive position?

I don't think women will ever forgive him for what he did to his cancer-ridden wife.
Speaking as a woman, that's a deal-killer...
(along with his feckless method of clinton-confrontation-by-curtseying).
Newt repeatedly and reflexively submits to the clintons when he is supposed to confront them.

Speaking of which,
Newt is resuscitating hillary clinton's moribund health-care credibility even as we debate this.
The two of them are collaborating on some arcane healthcare conceit or other.

[zarf]

Well I think Romney will win it going away however Rudy would certainly send the extremes of both parties into suicide mode.

Might be worth it for sheer entertainment value.

[zbigreddogz]

What, you mean your old boss Keys isn't running so you can have a 'real' Republican to vote for?

[Plutarch]

EV, the thread is discussing a recently released national poll. Wouldn't it be more apropos for your posts to relate to the thread's subject?

Ask yourself, "Could my post be copied and pasted in to any other thread in which the name "Romney" appears and be just as [in]valid?" If you answer "yes" to that question, then you are doing something called "spam" (which isn't good).

[EternalVigilance]

Keyes would be far superior to most all in this field.

[zbigreddogz]

Just wanted to get you on record.

[EternalVigilance]

You all are discussing meaningless samplings that show little but name ID, almost a year before the first vote will be cast. I've seen the media pollsters miss the mark by more than 30 points in the last month before an election.

And you want to criticize me for wanting to discuss something a bit weightier, like actual issues and the records of the erstwhile participants? Something doesn't quite compute there, sir.

[EternalVigilance]

Just wanted to get you on record.

*snort*

[Kevmo]

The only people funnier than the Ron Paul or Tancredo crowd is people who think Duncan Hunter actually has a shot at the nomination.
***Hey, humor is just part of the package. Glad to be of service.

[ShawTaylor]

"I take great delight in seeing McCain's poll number sink."

Same here.
This joker has frustrated and second guessed the Republican Party and the Bush admintrsation so many times , while pandering to the drive-by media and their description of him as a "maverick", that it feels so damn good to see him suffer right now.

[EternalVigilance]

I mean, really, what does it mean? Can you really say anything concrete about it? Because if you can, you are the first.

That's easy. It's shorthand to those who are concerned about the erosion of our national sovereignty and the giving away of our national heritage to a bunch of international bureaucratic gangsters. Do you think that is an irrational fear?

[zbigreddogz]

*snort*

OH!!! So you are in to cocaine!

SO MANY THINGS MAKE SENSE NOW!!!!

[My Favorite Headache]

Ditto. McCain is finished in D.C., his days of wanting the White House are over. Even the media dismisses him as one word..."OLD".

[EternalVigilance]

Not worth a retort.

[zbigreddogz]

lol. I knew you'd defend it.

Yes, the fear is largely irrational. Not completely irrational, but largely irrational.