CBS Poll: Giuliani Maintains Strength

Former New York Mayor Leads Closest Rival By 20 Points Nationally

(CBS)  According to a new CBS News poll out Monday, Rudy Giuliani retains a significant lead nationally among Republican primary voters in the race to become the party’s presidential nominee.

In all, 38 percent of Republican primary voters favor the former New York City mayor, a slight increase from last month. Senator-turned-actor Fred Thompson is next; he's favored by 18 percent of Republican primary voters, a seven-point drop from last month. Thompson has yet to officially announce his candidacy.

The third choice, at 13 percent, is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who improved five points from one month ago. He was followed by Arizona Sen. John McCain, who came in at 12 percent.

Republican primary voters appear to be growing more content with the Republican candidates for president: 46 percent say they are satisfied with their choices, up from 36 percent a month ago and 30 percent in June. But 49 percent say they are not satisfied.

Giuliani, defying conventional wisdom, continues to show strength among groups not expected to be favorable towards his candidacy. He leads the field among conservatives, those who live in the South and West, evangelical Christians, and voters who think that a candidate's personal life should be a factor in deciding whom to support.

In all, 47 percent of Giuliani supporters say they strongly favor their candidate, while 45 percent say the like him as a choice, with reservations. Only 7 percent choose Giuliani because they dislike the other candidates.

When asked for their second choice among the candidates, 30 percent of Republican primary voters choose McCain, more than any other candidate. Romney is the second choice of 15 percent of primary voters, while just 8 percent say Thompson is their second choice.

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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,214 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone Aug. 8-12, 2007. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.

[j-whitman]

Give it up Rudy,,, You are just another 9/11 profiteer & you didn't actually help NYC

[perception5]

The GOP will definitly win in 2008 because none of the Democrats are even qualified let along how far to the "left" they are.

It's either going to be Rudy or Mitt Romney. Romney's the most qualified candidate to ever run for president. He's very solid and has no skeletons in his closet.

[robrtl]

rudy is thebane of democrats ..he is only repub with chance to win ... so dems want romney and will dis rudy

[don3173]

perception5, That is just inane considering that the GOP's front runners are all social liberals.
Giuliani is pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and pro-gun control. Fred Thompson worked 20 hours for a pro-choice group and Mitt Romney can't decide what he is from one day to the next. The true conservative candidates are polling at 0-3%. It speaks volumes about the direction of the country.

[zorlacskates]

hey, perception5: huh? your first sentence makes no sense whatsoever, particularly give last november's elections. and romney's the most qualified candidate ever? nice.

[seven-pesos]

not one southern state will vote for hillary...

guaranteed,
warranteed,
money back guarantee,
double your money back guarantee,
will kizz yo' azz guarantee,
bet my life on it guarantee,
bet my wife on it guarantee,
bet my daughter's virginity on it guarantee.

ha,ha,ha.

bush loving, southern, republican christian snakes...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[krzog]

Guile-iani came to Cincinnati the other day & said 'I spent as much or more time at Ground Zero as the rescue workers & I'm healthy!' - meanwhile these rescue workers are dying from the toxic fumes they were inhaling day-in-day-out. Anyone who would vote for this kind of scum needs to seriously re-evaluate.

And, I would like to know: what was the exact question posed to the poll respondents? This is not indicated in the story. Were they given a fair choice of ALL candidates or simply the ones CBS considers "viable." I highly suspect the latter.

CBS news has no credibility whatsoever. But they are hardly unique in that respect among the media majors.... & that also goes for Fox, folks.

Boycott the majors! Get on non-corporate internet sites for the news. Here are just a few recommendations, from a wide variety of angles...

http://www.americanfreepress.net/
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/
http://www.intellnet.org/
http://www.larouchepub.com/
http://www.narconews.com/en.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.rawstory.com/
http://rense.com/

[krzog]

Guile-iani came to Cincinnati the other day & said 'I spent as much or more time at Ground Zero as the rescue workers & I'm healthy!' - meanwhile these rescue workers are dying from the toxic fumes they were inhaling day-in-day-out. Anyone who would vote for this kind of scum needs to seriously re-evaluate.

And, I would like to know: what was the exact question posed to the poll respondents? This is not indicated in the story. Were they given a fair choice of ALL candidates or simply the ones CBS considers "viable." I highly suspect the latter.

CBS news has no credibility whatsoever. But they are hardly unique in that respect among the media majors.... & that also goes for Fox, folks.

Boycott the majors! Get on non-corporate internet sites for the news. Here are just a few recommendations, from a wide variety of angles...

http://www.americanfreepress.net/
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/
http://www.intellnet.org/
http://www.larouchepub.com/
http://www.narconews.com/en.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.rawstory.com/
http://rense.com/

[Syndicate]

I think McCain is to old even if I really like the guy. Romney flip flops. Hey I bagged on Kerry for flip floping so it only seems fair. Giuliani is abrasive. I also don't like the fact he is on his third wife. If the guy doesn't take "til death do us part" seriously how is he going to take "protect and defend" seriously? Fred Thompson? Is he running or not? Guess not. Right now I like Mike Huckabee. He seems like a decent guy. Some one I would like to drink a beer with. Besides we have already had one president from Hope, Arkansass and he wasn't to awful bad.

[krzog]

It's bad enough when private pollsters are rigged, but when the elections themselves are rigged...
Look at what Dan's been working on since leaving CBS: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4949
I'd say it's the best move he ever made... he could get back to being a real journalist!

[gracchus1]

Looks like slim pickins' for the Republican ticket. This one will be a tough decision.

[seven-pesos]

not one southern state will vote for hillary.

the south prefers upstanding, christian faith professing americans

and top notch leadership like bush.

the south would like to find another like bush.

they're considering drafting rush limbaugh to be the republican candidate.

he has all the qualifications...

fat, bigoted, repubican, christian, drug user, demogogue.

oh well, that's the south for you, folks!

[hrdstonewall]

Seven-Pesos! All this *** coming from somone who loves *** and lesbians, wants to legalize abortion and HATES anything that differs from your opinions?

I'd rather be called a reborn and a redneck than a *** and a baby-murderer and feel proud of it!

So much hate is only evidence to a twisted soul who seems to have lived in fear all its life.

These are the kind who want to rule the nation? God help us all! Nevertheless I'll pray for you.

Pray, be vigilant, stand ready.

[seven-pesos]

just think, evangelist...

with all the money your beloved prez, bush, has spent on the war,

y'all could have built a church on every street corner in america.

come to think of it...i'd rather have the war.

ha,ha,ha.

war, hate, republican snakes, christian creeps...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[limesquishee]

HaHa LOL...

You libs know that Hillary cant be elected.

Her unfavorables a through the roof. Most
of the country hates her. But the nomination
is rigged so she can win.

No matter how you demonize Rudy, Romney or Elmo
for that matter, Hillary cant beat any of them
because she is so hated.

I know its tough for you guys. You know your going to lose cuz the big guys have coronated the witch so you have to act like a bunch
of two year olds that dont want to eat their veggies...

[elz523]

Seven Pesos, really... I'm not from the south... I'm not evangelical.. I'm not anti-abortion... pro-war or anti-gay... and even though I agree with most of your observations...it does get a little old dude.

[j-whitman]

seven-pesos,,,, Wow, you've got people praying for you === Can't you feel the power ???? Keep it up bro.

[eeconrad]

What sort of poll was this? CBS should be careful with its suggestions. This was a poll about which of four candidates you would vote for. THERE ARE MORE THAN FOUR CANDIDATES! (AND THOMPSON ISN'T EVEN ONE OF THEM! What is it with the major networks that they are afraid to put other candidates. RON PAUL, for instance! It's sad that America has to get its news from irrelevant polls.

[ubikvalis2]

"Right now I like Mike Huckabee. He seems like a decent guy. Some one I would like to drink a beer with."

We've already tried one of those kinds of presidents, and it has been a 100% disaster. Can we go back to the kind of President who can pronounce "nuclear" properly?

[mrhoppy-2009]

Ron Paul has more support and is blacked out by the press and cheated by the Diebold machines. That is how you know he is the best person for the average family.

All the others are AIPAC and corporate lap dogs. Paul does not take their money.

[pwb314]

Hello There Seven-Pesos,

Which candidate will you be supporting for the 2008 election? I am an atheist and I always wonder when one of these politicians will campaign without pretending to be a Christian...

[emanuilova]

It seems like Ron Paul has a number of activists that support him. However, I don't think an anti-war Republican will win the White House, so I can't even consider him.

The surge is starting to work...the American people are starting to accept the fact that we are going to be in Iraq a long time regardless of whether a Republican or a Democrat leads. So the most important question of this election can only be "Who is the most fit to lead our country against the Islamic Extremists that have declared war on us?" (I think it's the only important question...the others are issues whose importance pales in comparision)

That's why I'm voting for Guiliani.

And I think that most conservatives agree with me that our national security is more important than whether our leader is pro-life, Mormon, or libertarian. And that's why Guiliani has such a big lead. He is obviously the best candidate to lead in a time when we need a leader.

Personally, I don't understand how others can vote for a Senator as President of the United States. Senators, by job description, don't lead. They compromise. They find common ground. I simply don't believe we can find common ground against a group of people who think it's God's will to eradicate the American way of life.

I really hope we can get together as a country and stop letting agenda-driven, self-serving politics guide our nation. I really do.

[aaabee-2009]

Yeah, ok... the republiCONs want HIM as their president?? oy vey." Posted by CANYOUTELLME at 08:16 PM : Aug 13, 2007

I know. If a man's personal life is a mess, he isn't going to turn into a saint simply by walking through the White House doors. If the Republicans couldn't stand a Democratic bj, then why are they so full of leniency when it comes to full on Republican adultry? Can anyone say hypocrite, Newt?

What a man's life reflects, is a reflection of the man.

[fascistusa]

ZEITGEISTmovie.com.

The American/Israeli Elite control EVERYTHING.

Our elections are FIXED. Our Corporations are all owned by The Elite.

Ghoulliani is just another AIPAC/Neo-Con Fascist.

Where is the gold that was stored under the World Trade Center, Ghoulliani?? World Trade Center. Nice place to store valuable assets then magically make then disappear after a Inside Job Terror Attack.

[jydavis1]

what did Rudy know about 9/11 before it happened?

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911+mysteries&hl=en

[jydavis1]

Ron Paul on the federal reserve- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4kxTkhwR_Q

Lou Dobbs on the North American Union - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjsy2Z3kdI

[seven-pesos]

southerners hope to elect another faith professing, conservative republican.

the south hopes to win the all time loser's award.

jefferson davis lost his war...
johnson lost his war...
bush will lose his war...

if the south can lose just one more war,

they will beat the french for most wars lost, ever!

ha,ha,ha.

those idiot southern republican christian creeps ought to stay in church and out of politics

the south can't be depended upon to do the right thing for america.

[emanuilova]

New Democratic campaign slogan:
"I saw it on YouTube...it must be true!!"

[j-whitman]

"IF YOU'RE GONNA DO A CRIME, DON'T COME TO TEXAS." ---- Unless you swim accross, smuggle drugs across the border,,, walk accross like the middle easterners do,,, or come in the back of an 18 wheeler,,, or a friend of Karl Rove & Bush.

[lorinkundert]

If the polls are correct it just proves how stupid voters really are and the politicians can breath knowing that they only have to lie, telling the people what they want to hear and knowing they will forget the things you did in the past against them.

[menofoz]

Hillary Clinton vs. Rudy Giuliani

In spite of America%u2019s imperfections this is an indictment against the elitist and establishment that America is eroding as a Nation into complete failure.

[emanuilova]

It seems like Ron Paul has a number of activists that support him. However, I don't think an anti-war Republican will win the White House, so I can't even consider him.

The surge is starting to work...the American people are starting to accept the fact that we are going to be in Iraq a long time regardless of whether a Republican or a Democrat leads. So the most important question of this election can only be "Who is the most fit to lead our country against the Islamic Extremists that have declared war on us?" (I think it's the only important question...the others are issues whose importance pales in comparision)

That's why I'm voting for Guiliani.

And I think that most conservatives agree with me that our national security is more important than whether our leader is pro-life, Mormon, or libertarian. And that's why Guiliani has such a big lead. He is obviously the best candidate to lead in a time when we need a leader.

Personally, I don't understand how others can vote for a Senator as President of the United States. Senators, by job description, don't lead. They compromise. They find common ground. I simply don't believe we can find common ground against a group of people who think it's God's will to eradicate the American way of life.

I really hope we can get together as a country and stop letting agenda-driven, self-serving politics guide our nation. I really do.

[tylenol6]

Are you sure you want to vote for Guiliani???????
Guiliani stands to make millions and millions of
dollars off of the Super NAFTA HIGHWAY......Better
think again...Vote for him and you will get the
same as if you just voted for Bush.

[seven-pesos]

laura bush looks like the joker...

george bush wants to be a real live cowboy...

republican spirtual advisors robertson, falwell, swaggart, haggard and reed

are hoping for the rapture to destroy the blue states and carry the christians off to heaven.

what a joke the south is.

war, hate, arrogance, rednecks, reborns...

bush's kind of people.

nothing good comes out of the south.

[jydavis1]

Rudy was part of the 9/11 inside job - he's the terrorist

[kaskaskian17]

Sounds like this 7pesos character is more than a few shillings short of reality. It's kind of enlightening to see this level of ignorance personified. When someone so lame attacks with so little substance it only strengthens the side being attacked. I can only hope he chooses me as his next target so when I'm done laughing at his sophmoric outburst we can all get back to a serious conversation. This pea - brained ignoramus is the poster child for the breakdown of our education system. I can only assume he got his name from his third grade teacher ( his last year of schooling, by the way ) who tired of his failure to count to 8. This was too easy. Bring it on, 7poser.

[seven-pesos]

only folks that believe that snake, bush, are those idiot slave state republican snakes...

you know...those idiot ignorant faith professing, bible thumping, flag waving, war making, bush loving pieces of anti-american, dumb dixie freaks...

bush's kind of people.

the south elected bush,
the south supports bush,
the south loves bush.

war, hate, rednecks and reborns...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[tnt1954]

who will the republicans choose to lose?
according to republican logic, the loser
is the winner. he who loses his life for
my sake will save it. etc. you see if only
corporations would lose all their money,
then they wouldn't have to pay taxes.
look at the bright side, the cup is half full.
joel osteen is on their side. norman vincent peale, the power of positive pimping. just
think groovy thoughts, and things will be goin
your way. zippety doo dah, zippety eh! a bluebird
on my shoulder. my oh my what a beautiful day.

[seven-pesos]

god gave me a mangy, mongrel, ***** eating ol' dawg.

i'd be rid of that smelly old dawg but that dawg's got a nose like a georgia **** hound.

that dawg can smell a bush loving, republican christian creep from a mile away.

don't let me catch any of you phony dixie reborn snakes in my neighborhood.

you won't like it if i cut that dawg loose on you.

ha,ha,ha.

war, hate, hypocrite christian snakes...

nothing good comes out of the bush loving south.

[kaskaskian17]

How funny seeing the looney left frothing at the mouth. Just think, we with our brains still in working order have over a year to enjoy the eye-bulging, face-reddening, uncontrollable extremities-shaking vitriol from the ignorant and bigoted libs. Wait till they lose the next election. What will they possibly do next? Commit mass political hari-kari? Let's just sit back and enjoy the show.

[seven-pesos]

and the south shall be cursed.

and its earth shall be salted that no thing shall grow.

and its leaders shall be shunned throughout the nations.

and its followers shall be barren and their women shall bear no children.

so shall the curse be upon the south.

and the lord will no longer cast his benevolent sight upon the evil and wickedness of the south.

for the south brings only war, hate, death and false religion upon their neighbors.

so shall the fate of the south be.

ha,ha,ha.

even gawd knows how phony those creepy bush loving southerners are.

war, hate, reborns, rednecks, republican snakes...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[kaskaskian17]

Your right in one aspect, 7poser. The last 3 dem presidents, both from the south, were no good. Get ready for another conservative president. How come all those northerners choose to head south for their vacations? I suspect you in your next life you will be a spitoon, sucking up all that southern chew for eternity. LOL!

[kaskaskian17]

For sure, ainttaken, there are plenty of phony Christians. You must be hanging out in some pretty suspicious places to meet so many though. (Multitudes)? You do yourself no favors putting yourself on the side of 7poser who is as ignorant as they come. It's fine to call out fake people, but that's the whole point. If they're fake, THEY'RE NOT TRUE CHRISTIANS! Instead of throwing out childish names how about making an intelligent argument? Don't accuse me of contemplating calling you "Mr. sleeper cell". I deal in substance, not ignorance.

[seven-pesos]

not one southern state will vote for hillary.

the south prefers upstanding, christian , faith professing republicans

and top notch leadership like george bush, jr.

the south would like to find another like george bush. jr.

the southern states are considering drafting rush limbaugh to be the republican candidate.

he has all the qualifications...

fat, bigoted, republican, christian, drug user, demogogue.

oh well, that's the south for you, folks!

[kaskaskian17]

7pesos(poser)=bigot personified, and doesn't even seem to know it. Rich.

[tbweb]

Posted by seven-pesos at 01:36 AM : Aug 14, 2007,,,

Rudy Giuliani is not from the South! Time to update your Cut and Paste message to something like nothing good comes out of your mouth!

[tbweb]

Posted by seven-pesos at 01:36 AM : Aug 14, 2007,,,

Rudy Giuliani is not from the South! Time to update your Cut and Paste message to something like nothing good comes out of my mouth!

[seven-pesos]

five years in afghanistan and that idiot, bush, hasn't captured osama,

hasn't won the fight against the taliban.

hasn't won the fight in iraq.

actually, that creep, bush, hasn't accomplished one thing in his eight year presidency.

but they still love that idiot, bush, in the south.

"bush is a good christian"...they say in dixie.

"so we support him."

can you believe that *****?

war, hate, reborns, rednecks...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[seven-pesos]

abraham lincoln takes away the south's slaves...

so the south murders abraham lincoln.

john f. kennedy forces civil rights on the south...

so the south murders john kennedy.

hillary, be careful! there are many assassins in the south who will do you harm.

war, hate, reborns, republican snakes...

nothing good comes out of the south.

[andrewsac]

Looks like it will be Hillary-Rudy redux. No problem - I remember the result of that election, and it suited me fine! Just give Rudy a mike and let him talk his way into history as the man who lost to the first woman president. New York politics is brutal, and Hill knows this opponent well. She won the Senate seat as the first First Lady to serve in public office after her hisband's term. She can make history again, and Rudy can go one the road and make tons of money telling everyone what a hero he was on 9/11, that is, if he can shout down all the REAL heroes of that day as they come to regail the crowd with their version of what happened that day, and how much time Rudy REALLY spent inhaling all that poison in the days and weeks following the disaster. New York LOVES this woman - she won reelection in a landslide. If she can win that, she can win it all. The long, dark night of the neocons is almost over. Your part? Don't vote for four more years of GOP rule.