Posted on 04/12/2005 4:15:55 PM PDT by Libloather
Poll: New Yorkers not sure Clinton should run for prez
By MARC HUMBERT
AP Political Writer
April 12, 2005, 2:43 PM EDT
ALBANY, N.Y. -- While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2006 re-election chances look good unless Rudolph Giuliani challenges her New York voters aren't sure she should run for president in 2008, a statewide poll reported Tuesday.
On the other hand, a slim majority of New York voters think Giuliani should run for president in 2008, according to the poll from the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
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Fifty-one percent of registered voters polled by Marist said they definitely plan to vote for the former first lady when she seeks re-election next year while 31 percent said they would vote against her.
In head-to-head Senate race matchups, Clinton leads a host of potential rivals by almost 2-1 margins or better, including Pataki; her 2000 GOP opponent Rick Lazio; Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro; and Manhattan lawyer Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon.
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"She pretty much runs the table except for Rudy," said Lee Miringoff, head of the Poughkeepsie-based Marist polling operation.
Clinton's job approval rating was 56 percent, statistically unchanged from a Marist poll conducted six months ago.
"It's another indication that New Yorkers appreciate the good job Hillary is doing working on their behalf, and that's what we're going to stay focused on," said Clinton campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis.
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Conversely, 51 percent of New York voters, including 67 percent of Republicans and even 40 percent of Democrats, said they wanted Giuliani to run for president. Forty-percent of voters said the former mayor should not run for president.
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Well, the MSM has 3 more years to convince them otherwise.
That's an awfully weak level of support considering she's literally running against "Nobody" at the moment.
Even if she lost to whoever, she'll still run in '08.
Rudy against Hillary guarantees us of a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro gun-control president the nest time around. Good thing NY has a terrible record for choosing presidents.
But she would be seriously damaged. If she couldn't even beat a Republican while running for reelection in New York, how could she hope to carry swing states in a presidential election?
She only used NY as her liberal springboard for this very thing...it's her ambition in life.
She got their once through Bill, NY was the next vehicle.
Because she's already got a whole lot of Clintonistas in key spots within the DNC, and they're already trying to push Dean into a corner. She's getting a lot of money, and she has the strength to pull it out.
If she did get the nod from the Dems (and she most likely will) like it or not 44% of the American people are die-hard Democrats who would vote for her even if she were videotaped performing a late-term abortion.
Republicans have 43% of the vote, and that leaves about 12% up for grabs. 7% gets her an Oval office. Probably less thanks to 3rd parties, and the dead voters.
Too bad for new Yorkers.
If they cannot deliver the state to G.W. who avenged the death of families, co-workers and friends in the 9-11 attacks, instead choosing an appeasement obsessed traitor, they certainly do not get to choose the Republican nominee in '08.
Rudy could get in Shrill's face and do her some damage.
He may be a lib socially but he would bring a consistant Bush type determination to foreign affairs. Every vote in the Senate matters.
I'm still not convinced that he's a hard core gun control advocate on a national level.
Three more years of listening to that fishwife voice braying, "well, ya knows"?
Terrific, but this article was about Rudy for President. No thanks. Same goes for Condoleezza Rice.
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