More Prefer Clinton As Road Trip Friend Than Giuliani

2007_09_hillruddy.jpgRegular polls asking who voters want for president are boring, so ABC News asked Americans who they would "rather have as a traveling companion on a drive across country" - Senator Hillary Clinton or Rudy Giuliani? And Clinton won 48% to Giuliani's 39%. Well, of course - can you imagine that trip with Rudy? It would be all about 9/11! And Clinton probably knows the best fast food places because of Bubba.

When asked who would you want to run your company, Clinton got 45% while Giuliani got 42%, which is a dead heat. ABC News writes, "[O]f the two scenarios, running a business would seem more analogous to serving as president. Clinton had best not switch on the cruise control quite yet."

When the question is asked within the parties, Clinton and Giuliani still win, but we found these factoids interesting:

- Liberal Democrats divide about evenly between Clinton and Obama, 27 percent to 29 percent, on whom they'd like to run their company, but prefer Clinton by 2-1 over Obama, 48 percent to 23 percent, in whom they'd like along on a cross-country drive.
- About as many conservatives would like Thompson along on a cross-country drive (25 percent) as Giuliani. But Giuliani runs ahead of Thompson, even among conservative Republicans, in the more management-oriented question of preference to run the company.
We wonder if the electoral college will include a cross-country or business management component to their selection process.

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This is the kind of typical bullshit fluff that clutters up American elections and makes us a world laughing-stock. Who CARES which candidate would make a better road trip partner? The only question that matters is which candidate would be best-equipped to pick up the reigns after eight years of our cowboy president whooping it up and firing wildly into the air.

Republican, democrat, independent ... Hillary, Obama, Giuliani ... I don't give a damn, and I certainly don't care who would be more fun to sit in a car with. Just give me someone at least half-competent, please. I'm tired of being embarrassed by my country and by those running it.

i would leave hillary at a truck stop in yuma.

I'd like to take Rudy


...and make Ted Kennedy the driver!

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This is why nobody respects the media anymore. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these people? Do they have any self-respect as journalists?

I can't even IMAGINE "going on a road trip" with Hillary Clinton or Rudy Giuliani. It's a hypothetical that just has no relevance to anything at all. If anything, it's a little bit gross. Who would I rather have nominating judges? Who would I rather have dealing with the health care crisis? Wow, now those are relevant questions.

Now are we going to have to hear about this stupid bullshit poll as often as we had to hear about the stupid bullshit polls about who we'd rather have a beer with? (I'd rather have a beer with Jack Palance, but he's dead. At least he had the good sense not to run for office and subject himself to vapid media shit like this).

As you can see, this makes me a little bit angry.

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Hillary is looking sexier than ever, especially when she flashes that million dollar smile of hers - or perhaps I just have a fetish for MILFs...

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#3 haha But, I think the average reader (?) here is probably too young to get that...

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God bless 'em both, but I think I'd get out and walk by the time we hit Cleveland no matter which one I was with.

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