Giuliani leads GOP race

Newsday ^ | April 12, 2007 | CRAIG GORDON

[veronica]

A new Republican presidential poll shows former mayor beating McCain; Clinton tops the Democratic roster

WASHINGTON - Rudolph Giuliani navigated the first choppy waters of his campaign to sit atop a new Republican presidential poll yesterday that shows him easily beating one-time front-runner John McCain, the Arizona senator who tumbled to third place over Iraq.

But the Los Angeles Times-Bloomberg poll also suggests conservative skeptics are still casting about for an alternative to the moderate Giuliani, with a second-place showing by someone who isn't even in the race - actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson.

On the Democratic side, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton still leads comfortably over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former senator John Edwards among Democratic primary voters.

But in a New York head-to-head faceoff for the White House, Clinton trails Giuliani, 48 percent to 42 percent. And she only barely beats a weakened McCain.

Giuliani won support from 29 percent of Republican primary voters surveyed, followed by Thompson with 15 percent and McCain with 12 percent.

[areafiftyone]

(((RUDY PING)))

[Little Ray]

Actually, if Hillary! supported the war, I might vote for her. We KNOW she’s a ruthless b!tch - if she used that against our nation’s enemies like she does against her own, we might finish this war up with a total victory...

[edcoil]

The very LAST thing I want to see is two New Yorkers as our only choices.

BTW, Rudy is third in the FR poll on the right column.

[veronica]

Rudy Guiliani: if his wives can't trust him, why should we?)

Hillary Clinton: if her own husband doesn't want her, why should we??

[BobinIL]

I think Rush Needs to get Paul Shanklin to record a new song to the Paula Cole tune (Where have all the cowboys gone?) and change it to (Where have all the conservatives gone?)

[claudiustg]

Ping away, Rudy can’t win without the pro-lifers and gunnies.

[areafiftyone]

LOL! Why does bother you that I ping the over 200 Freepers on the Rudy ping list? You guys should worry about your candidate and not Rudy. For some reason you just can’t stand it when he’s in the lead. You think bursting my bubble and the other Rudy fan’s bubble will do it? No it will make you guys seem like a bunch of extremists. Worry about your candidate and not about Rudy - Unless you really feel that threatened by him.

[areafiftyone]

Rudy is third in the FR poll on the right column.

ROFLMAO! A FR Poll? When you get a legit poll that says Rudy is third then we will believe it.

[massadvj]

But in a New York head-to-head faceoff for the White House, Clinton trails Giuliani, 48 percent to 42 percent

Translation: The only thing standing between Hillary Clinton or another Democrat and the presidency is Rudy Giuliani. The more this single fact becomes apparent, the more conservatives will compromise.

Between the polls and the rigged primary system, with CA and NY going very early, the nomination is Rudy's to lose at this point.

[Hydroshock]

I will nver vote for him, I will go third party.

[EternalVigilance]

When you get a legit poll that says Rudy is third then we will believe it.

It'll happen. Just a matter of time.

[Little Ray]

I don’t. I don’t want any candidate in particular and Hillary!, especially. I want to win the war. I want our enemies driven before our armed forces and crushed. I want to hear the wailing of their women and children as they are carried off to slavery, their nations’ treasures looted and their borders erased from the world maps.

Too bad we don’t wage war like that anymore.

[freespirited]

Rudy's abortion stance is killing him.

Yeah, based on the article sure sounds like it's time to stick a fork in him. ;-)

When pollsters asked voters to rate the three most visible GOP contenders, Giuliani's lead strengthened, with 48 percent compared to McCain's 25 percent and Romney's 20 percent.

But in a New York head-to-head faceoff for the White House, Clinton trails Giuliani, 48 percent to 42 percent.

[N3WBI3]

I think many of the conservatives will vote for Hillary.

Not a chance, more likely conservatives will vote 3rd party.

[garv]

I guess the fact that he is losing to Obama and his lead over Edwards is within the margin of error means we should work like hell to make sure Hillary gets the nomination.

[veronica]

Which third party?? There isn't a viable one now and not enough time to create one.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hillary Clinton: if her own husband doesn't want her, why should we??

Former President Bill Clinton sits on the steps of the stage as he listens to his wife, Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), speak at a campaign fund-raiser in Washington March 20, 2007. (Jim Young/Reuters)

Chelsea Clinton listens to her mother, presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), speak during a campaign fundraising dinner in New York, March 18, 2007. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES)

[NeoCaveman]

He already did that.

[tiger-one]

You may be pinging over 200 Freepers but that does not translate to 200 Freepers supporting Rudy. I am sure there are those who just want to disagree with the posters.

Me, I prefer to do it right here, not a ping list. RUDY the RINO.

[areafiftyone]

The funny thing is I see no posts on your guys at all hardly. You guys complain about my posts but where are yours? If this is the way you support your candidates no wonder they are losing. At least we Rudy people support our candidates.