Poll: Giuliani Leads McCain For GOP Nod
CBS News Poll Finds Favorable Ratings For Both, But Rudy Leads
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McCain and Giuliani head up the Republican pack chasing the presidency.
Views of Giuliani are especially positive among both moderates and the conservatives that he and McCain are courting.
Voters planning to take part in a Republican primary next year think both McCain and Giuliani share their values, but would currently prefer Giuliani over McCain if the nomination fight came down to just the two of them.
PREFERENCE IF GOP NOMINATION WERE JUST MCCAIN V. GIULIANI (Among Republican Primary Voters)
Giuliani
McCain
Neither
Both moderate and conservative primary voters say they would prefer Giuliani. Forty-eight percent of conservative voters said they would vote for Giuliani, while 21% of conservatives said they favored McCain.
Both men have been the subject of questions over how their personalities and styles of governance, as well as issue positions, might help or hinder their chances. In the poll, both are seen as having the right kind of temperament and personality to be President.
MCCAIN'S QUALITIES (Among Republican Primary Voters)
Has the right temperament to be president...
Yes
No
Shares your values...
Yes
No
GIULIANI'S QUALITIES (Among Republican Primary Voters)
Has the right temperament to be president...
Yes
No
Shares your values...
Yes
No
America's voters overall hold a mostly favorable view of McCain and have positive views of Giuliani by an even larger margin. Both men, however, remain unknown to many nationwide: half cannot yet form an opinion of McCain, and four in ten say the same of Giuliani.
OPINION OF MCCAIN (Among Registered Voters)
Favorable
Not favorable
Undecided
Don’t know enough yet
OPINION OF GIULIANI (Among Registered Voters)
Favorable
Not favorable
Undecided
Don’t know enough yet
To read the complete poll results, click here.
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The Republican Party is no longer relevant.
The GOP is dead in the water for 2008.
Posted by hawksprings at 08:22 PM
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Well, I don't like her either (largely FOR that very reason!) Anyway, don't you think we've had enough from politicians who change with the wind?
His being a Mormon won't hold him back any more than JFK's Catholicism stopped him.
It's finally turned up now.
It consists of just one sentence: "When in doubt, mention your performance on 9/11."
Posted by scott4261 at 08:19 PM : Feb 17, 2007
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You crybabies said the same thing in '00 and '04
The republicans are so discouraged with the current adminstration that even they wiould vote for a liberal rather than a war monger
Posted by liberalameri at 09:46 PM : Feb 17, 2007
And in '08, they will probably win ANOTHER election and we'll have to hear all you pus sees cry about "voter disenfranchisement" and how the voting is "rigged". The tears will be flowing like a river.
It is also amazing how you people portray europeans as so much more enlightened that we are...Constantly painting our country in as bad a light as possible on the world stage. I guess it all goes into the idea of creating your ideal society where nobody works for a living because they can sue for any and everything that goes wrong in their lives and kids don't get corrected because it will be too painful for their fragile egos, thus turning them into ADD and hyper sensitive animals. Competition is not allowed either because losing at anything also would harm people too.
Pathetic
Sorry guys. I believe we are right in what we are doing in Iraq and in the end it will be a country better off than it was under Hussein. The difference with liberals is that once the going gets tough, they run for the hills. They want to pull the troops out and come up with meaningless "non binding legislation"....BTW, that failed today.
Posted by walt1944 at 10:34 PM
Umm yeah...lets refresh: No terrorist attacks in that time since 9/11, the economy is steady, gas prices have fallen and N. Korea has just caved in to the pressure that had been applied to them by our gov't and wants to come to the bargaining table because BUSH said he wasn't negotiating with them until they came to the 6 nation bargaining table. A few months ago, I hear liberal after liberal claim thiswas going to be a failure. It sure is funny to see how little this has been reported on CBS.
Posted by cbville72 at 10:23 PM
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Obviously, you - just like the incompetent (and now unpopular) president you continue to carry water for - didn't learn a thing from the 2006 elections. We've been in the far right ditch for long enough and the pendulum is now swinging to the LEFT, my friend...
It's time to stop worrying about the Vote. who cares?
Our GOVERNMENT does not represent us. We have no say in our Government. It's that simple. Voting is a joke.
It's time for Fight Club. It's time for V for Vendetta. It's time for another Civil War. It's time for REVOLUTION.
A Democrat will be elected president in 2008. And then you Republicans will get too greedy again and the pendulum will start its swing back to the right.
And so it goes...
Posted by JohnShaft4 at 10:56 PM : Feb 17, 2007
If Mitt were available, YES. But Mitt Romney is the one most likely to remain faithful to his one and ONLY wife. The other top three republican contenders might be interested in a 3rd or 4th wife....
would never win the general election. McCain is by far the best Republican candidate but he's not well enough for two national campaigns in the next two years. That leaves Gingrich.
Posted by cbville72
une 27, 1999
Web posted at: 6:28 p.m. EDT (2228 GMT)
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Main Entry: neo.con (ser.va.tive)
Pronunciation: 'nE-O-k&n
Function: noun or adjective
1 a : of or relating to a person or strategy of pretending
to follow traditional conservatism with little or no true interest
in such philosophy simply for personal, political or economic gain.
and fascistusa - who is this guy!? Go to Venezuela, you and Hugo can have your "revolution" there!!! But thanks for the laugh, you and other loons in the world like Chavez and Ahmadinejad, Chirac - at least you make me laugh!
you write sooo much c*r*a*p*o*l*a. You can not put your self in the shoes of a poor man. Nor can you see the soon to be poor man squeezed by his poor decisions of his adjustable rate mortgage and the terrible housing market. Nor can you see the plight of those being squeezed by the predatory banker who, at will, bait the average consumer with low rates only to send them some hidden piece of, what looks like junk mail "opt out" statement which the consumer probably does not see and probably does not understand. Furthermore, few consumers know enough about having to write letters to merchants to dispute a charge (in triplicate) BEFORE contacting the credit card company.
So what do these candidates offer to the average Joe? Absolutely nothing. It was Paul Volcker who tried to put some safeguards into place and without his leadership the country would truly be a gangster driven banker's paradise. However, as it stands, these candidates are just stooges of the most evil empire on the face of the Earth. There is no Luke Skywalker in sight.
But this really is an exercise in futility. The GOP is dead in the water for 2008.
the south has no idea what a good president is.
rednecks, white trash, phony christian creeps...
nothing good comes out of the south!
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by j0hnwi11iams
February 19, 2007 3:04 AM PST
- I would have far more respect for the South if the South had more respect for Science. There is a disease called religion that seems to take hold in the ignorant backwaters of the south that seems impervious to fact or reason. The South has been BEHIND on every progressive issue, consistently, beginning with SLAVERY. You should quit trying to defend your ignorance. If only you valued the ideas of science as much as its products. The only thing we get out of religion is more BS and those obedient to shameless con artists.
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