Clinton tops Giuliani in Quinnipiac Poll

Connecticut Post ^ | 08/15/2007 10:37:09 PM EDT | PETER URBAN

[Aristotelian]

WASHINGTON — In the 2008 presidential sweepstakes, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton has edged ahead of Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani in the most recent Quinnipiac Poll match-up.

"The movement is glacial, but for Sen. Hillary Clinton, it's in the right direction," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Clinton held a 46-43 percent advantage over the former New York City mayor among likely voters in the national poll of 1,545 voters that was conducted between Aug. 7 and 13. The poll also found that Clinton is well ahead of her Democratic rivals for the party's nomination.

The New York senator was favored by 36 percent of Democrats polled.

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was favored by 21 percent. And, non-candidate Al Gore was backed by 15 percent.

"At the moment, it really is a one-person race," Carroll said.

However, he cautioned that Clinton could stumble because her unfavorable ratings are the highest of any top presidential contender at 43 percent.

"The 'Hillary hostility' factor is constant and feeds doubts about whether she can win in November 2008," Carroll said. "That polling perennial — her unfavorability factor — remains high."

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Among Republicans polled, Giuliani was favored by 28 percent followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who was favored by 15 percent.

The survey of 1,545 voters has a margin of error of 2.5 percent, including 611 Republicans with a margin of error of 4.0 percent, and 717 Democrats with a margin of error of 3.7 percent.

[pnh102]

The fact is that conservatives turned out very well in 2006.

Did the conservatives retain control of Congress on your planet? If your statement is true, then we are in even worse trouble in 2008 because it means that conservatives are an even smaller portion of the electorate than we think.

But if it gets in the way of vilifying conservatives...

I did not single out any group of GOP voter. I simply showed proof that GOP voters in general stayed home in 2006, and the result is the Democrat-controlled Congress that we have now.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Even if conservatives did stay home in 2006, BFD. GOP doesn’t own anyone’s vote pal. You run big-spending, big-gov’t socons, you’re going to keep losing the independent and libertarian voters.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The fact is fewer voters voted in 2006 and we lost the Congress as a result.

Not all voters are conservative. As it has been pointed out to you ad nauseum, lots of libertarian and swing voters voted 3rd party or for the Dims.

Your blaming conservatives for Republican's mid-term loss reeks of whiny, blame-game liberalism.

[CaptainK]

It seems a lot of conservatives would rather have their taxes raised into the stratosphere and have Ginsburg like judges sitting on the Supreme Court then vote for Rudy.

Cause they have principles, don't you know.

[pnh102]

Your blaming conservatives for Republican's mid-term loss reeks of whiny, blame-game liberalism.

Again... I stated, and proved, that GOP voters in general stayed home. I did not single out conservatives. I don't know who you're arguing with, but you might want to direct your replies at that person, and not me.

[pnh102]

You run big-spending, big-gov’t socons, you’re going to keep losing the independent and libertarian voters.

Which is exactly why I was able to contact Senators Santorum, Talent and Allen and gripe to them about my concerns that the GOP has gotten too liberal, right?