Rasmussen MD Poll (head-to-head): Clinton 46%, Rudy 41%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/state_toplines/maryland_toplines_october_24_2007 ^

[LS]

Clinton 46%, Rudy 41%

Clinton 49%, Fred 37%

Clinton 47%, McCain 40%

Clinton 52%, Huckabee 31%

[LS]

Although this is Rasmussen, not SurveyUSA, this is the first head-to-head/state poll NOT showing McCain higher than Rudy.

[LS]

I should add, 500 likely voters (small sample, but “likely” vs. the Pew poll yesterday of “adults”).

[Red Badger]

500 likely voters in a liberal Blue State? I’m shocked........shocked that Her Thighness is doing so POOOOOOORLY!!!!!!!!!!!

[Red Badger]

I should add, 500 likely voters...

Perhaps there should be a "new" category of polled persons: LEGAL VOTERS...............

[LS]

Check out the Quinnipiac poll I just posted. Even slanted to the Dems, and not counting “likely” voters, Hillary loses to Rudy.

[Red Badger]

40-40-20......those numbers are ±5, and constant in just about any poll....It’s that 20% in the middle that decides everything.............

[C210N]

"new" category of polled persons: LEGAL VOTERS..............

Better stick to likely voters, as legal voters, especially in a blue state, won't have any bearing on reality.

[uncbob]

Voters could care less at this point

These polls are worthless

[Mygirlsmom]

So the question is this: Is the "mushy middle" ready for unabashed socialism?

If our eventual candidate can clearly communicate what is actually at stake in this election, I think the "mush" will slide to our side.

[central_va]

Forget MD. It is an “Eastern Block” state, always will be.

[chimera]

Hard to believe this one. MD is solid 'Rat through and through. I would find it very difficult to fathom why Hillary! will not win MD.

Then again, if she's bad enough, they just might flip. Who was the one Kennedy relative that lost a few cycles back? That was a Governor's race, though, as I recall, and on the next cycle the electorate booted the 'Pub out and went back to the 'Rat fold.

[Neverforget01]

Forget MD. It is an “Eastern Block” state, always will be.

I'm surprised Hilly's lead isn't in the double digits.

[Red Badger]

That 20% in the “mushy middle” also breaks down in a 40-40-20 split, typically....resulting in 8-8-4 split of the 20, so you are really down to about 4% of the whole that can tip the system one way or another. Now when you consider that during General Elections, only about 50% of the eligible electorate bother to come out, that 4% gets very very small in numbers. That is why we have Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 being so dang close. The whole system of ours is dependent on just a very few people who don’t pay much attention until about 48 hours before the polls open...............

[central_va]

GuilliRomney is a moderate democrat. Still, the Ice Princess does better, Why? because she is a “true” lefty.

[codercpc]

I could be wrong, but I think there are enough Republicans, right now, that say they would never vote for Rudy to skew any poll.

I also think when push comes to shove next November that a large majority of those same people will hold their nose and vote for him when faced with the prospect of 4-8 more years of the Clintons.

[TNCMAXQ]

If Hillary is ahead by only 5 in this hard core Demo state then she is not doing too well.

[USS Alaska]

Maryland, where both of my children live, should be thrown out of the Union. It is a communist state, very close to taxachewshits.

[Wallace T.]

Such numbers have to be scary to the Democrats. Kerry defeated Bush in Maryland by 13 percentage points in 2004 and Gore did the same by 16 percentage points. Only with Huckabee, still a second tier candidate, does Hillary approach the margins of past victories in that state. Extrapolating from the Maryland polling data, she could sink any chance the Democrats have of taking Ohio, Virginia, and Florida, and could jeopardize them in "purple" states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota. Her "coattails" could threaten continued Democrat control of the House of Representatives and lessen their chances of strengthening their Senate majority.

Perhaps this is why the rumors of Hillary's alleged lesbian affair with a Middle Eastern Muslim staffer are seeing the light of day all of a sudden. Some Democrats are seeing the possibility of their party snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory through a Hillary Clinton Presidential candidacy.

[Reagan is King]

Rudy would actually pick her apart in a debate. She folded like a cheap tent at the latest Democrap debate when ask the first tough questions of her whole campaign. She's the most sheltered candidate in history.

[FastCoyote]

Did Romney fall off the potato truck in this poll?