February 22, 2007
Poll Shows Giuliani Love Across the Country
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani got good and bad news from the Quinnipiac Poll. The good news: He beats Senator Hillary Clinton, 48% to her 43% in a national poll conducted last week. The bad news: It's still over 18 months to go until Election 2008.
Quinnipiac drilled down to the red, blue and purple state level: Giuliani beats Clinton 55-38 in states that voted Republican in the 2004 election. Interestingly, he ties her 46-46 in the blue states, while it's close in "purple states" (where the "margin in 2004 was less than 7%) - Giuliani has 44% while Clinton has 45%. Here are some more matchups:
- Senator John McCain edges Clinton, 46 - 44 percentGiuliani would win a Republican primary with 40% of Republican primary voters supporting him over McCain who would get just 18%, while Clinton would win a primary with 38% over Obama (23%). Furthermore, the Quinnipiac poll shows that Giuliani has the highest favorability rating of all candidates, with 57%, which Clinton has 46%, McCain has 51% and Obama has 44% (notably, 40% don't know enough about Obama to form an opinion.
- Clinton tops former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 49 - 37 percent;
- Giuliani beats Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 47 - 40 percent;
- Giuliani tops 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards 48 - 40 percent;
- McCain ties Obama 43 - 43 percent;
- McCain gets 43 percent to Edward's 42 percent, a tie;
- Obama tops Romney 49 - 29 percent;
- Edwards beats Romney 48 - 32 percent.
Yesterday, Mayor Giuliani was campaigning in South Carolina. On the news last night, WNBC's Melissa Russo noted something unusual: While the crowds were very friendly to Giuliani, even reporters (from Southern papers) asked Giuliani to take pictures with him.
Photograph of former Mayor Giuliani stumping with first responders in South Carolina by Mary Ann Chastain/AP
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I can just see the future Daily News headline -- "US to Iran -- It's Giulinani Time!"
Oh well, might as well take a plunger and shove our noble american experiment down the drain once and for all.
The Giuliani love-fest won't last long once the national media and Republican voters start scrutinizing his antics while he was mayor.
The last thing this nation needs is a president with a degree from Manhattan College. I would know, I see these idiots on a daily basis.
It's all about Rude. Not the city. Not the country.
That picture oughta help do the job...
regardless of who gets the most votes, giuliani will be "elected" the next president.
Love The Onion's take on Rudy...
All the rest of the country knows about Rudy is that he was mayor of NYC on 9-11. That's it. Once the slimy underbelly of ol' chrome-dome becomes known (and believe me, the attack ads are on the drawing table) support in the polls from folks out there in fly-over land will erode quickly. They have no idea what the real Rudy is really like---but they will soon. And they won't like it.
The picture looks like an old, unconfident man and not like the next president.
Rudy Giuliani wouldn't have been anywhere near the World Trade Center on 9/11 if he hadn't made the decision to locate his (approx.) $23 million specialized Emergency Command Center in the Trade Center. His aides advised him against it since the Trade Center had been the target of a partially aborted terrorist bomb 1993 and was still a likely target. After the planes hit, Giuliani and his (now-disgraced) Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik, rushed from City Hall down to the Command Center at Trade Center. The rest is history.
For once, the Rev. Al Sharpton got it right when he declared (in response to Guiliani's 9/11 leadership) that "Bozo the clown could have brought the city together."