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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Rudy Giuliani remains the top contender in the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in the United States, according to a poll by RT Strategies for the Cook Political Report. 34 per cent of respondents would vote for the former New York City mayor in a 2008 primary.Arizona senator John McCain is second with 17 per cent, followed by actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson with 10 per cent, former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich with nine per cent, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with six per cent. Support is lower...

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Saying that Rudy Giuliani's position in favor of states forcing taxpayers to fund abortions could be too much for pro-life Republican primary supporters to support, CBS News is coming under fire for calling the position "moderate." That's despite polls showing a large majority of Americans oppose tax-funded abortions. In an article on Giuliani's position, CBS News used the headline: "Is Rudy Too Moderate?" Ken Shepherd, the managing editor for NewsBusters and a former analyst at the Media Research Center, says CBS News is wrong to label Giuliani's pro-abortion views as "moderate." "The belief that abortion...

May I suggest to my prolife friends that they are looking up a blind alley when they argue over the real inner views of the candidates with respect to abortion? The single most important question pro-life Republicans need to ask themselves is this: What kind of judges and justices would the various candidates nominate, given the likelihood that they will face a Democratic majority Senate? To my mind, this is less a question about abortion than it is a question about congressional relations. Let's stipulate that John McCain is a sincere, principled opponent of abortion. Do we think he's likely...