Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds: GOP at lowest level in a generation

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: The Politico

By: David Paul Kuhn
Oct 31, 2007


Republican popularity at its lowest level in a generation, huge study by Pew reveals.
(Composite image by Politico.com)

One year before voters go to the polls to select the next president, the Republican Party is as weak as it has been in a generation, a detailed new poll suggests. In a hypothetical match-up between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, bloc after bloc of traditionally Republican voters break for Clinton: She wins the South. She polls evenly with voters who attend church at least once a week. She splits families with a household income above $100,000. She loses rural voters and men — but only by a narrow margin. All are constituencies Republicans have dominated for decades; George W. Bush won each by double-digit margins.

The findings from The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press remain preliminary, considering even the primaries are still two months off. But Pew questioned an unusually large number of voters to try to paint the most accurate picture possible of where the presidential contest stands today.

Should the race continue down its current trajectory, the poll finds Clinton defeating Giuliani by eight percentage points. Other recent polls, however, have placed Giuliani ahead of Clinton in a head-to-head race. But those polls predict Clinton would beat Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney. And Barack Obama would defeat Giuliani — though narrowly — according to at least four polls taken in October....

In July 2004, the Democratic Party had a slight lead as the party “better able to manage the federal government” and as the party that is “more honest and ethical.” Today Democrats lead both categories by double-digit margins. By even larger margins, Democrats are seen as the party “more concerned about people like me” (by 29 percentage points) and the party best able to bring about “needed change” (by 22 percentage points). Other polling has also showed that for the first time in decades Americans now see the two parties as equally qualified to face down national security threats — erasing the “security advantage” Republicans have long relied on....

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About a third of voters call themselves Democrats and a quarter call themselves Republicans — but when independents’ leanings are added to the mix, roughly half of Americans lean Democratic and only 36 percent lean Republican. That Democratic advantage in party identity is larger than at any time since tracking began in 1990....

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[liberalmuse]

1. Burn, GOP, Burn!

And may we never see the likes of these sanctimonious, evil, Nazi, facist, child-raping, women-hating, racist, too-stupid-to-live, deviant motherfucking cocksuckers again.

[AX10]

2. Hear, Hear!

:thumbsup:

[emilyg]

3. Bravo!

[Stella_Artois]

13. Now now

Hate is a value of the Republican Party, not the Democratic party. Feel sorry for them instead.

Let the War Party be seen has the party of hate.

[madrchsod]

4. well duh....

if she could`t beat giulee then we are really fucked

[Demonaut]

5. if only there were another viable party....oh well

the devil you know.

[Frances]

12. I am no spring chicken so I've heard your lament many times

Strom Thurmond ran as a Dixiecrat way back when. I remember Anderson, Perot, and, of course, Nader.

I don't remember the Dems ever having had as strong a group of people running for President. I was so impressed with each of them in the last debate.

If none of these candidates suits you, I simply can't understand what it is you are after.

[BenDavid]

6. I totally agree with the Pew poll and its

organization. This is one of the most reliable polling groups. I have seen poll after poll saying that HRC defeats all republican candidates. Well, on the 31st October Situation Room, Wolf was so thrilled that he found a poll that said Rudy defeats HRC by 2% points...Later James Carville a guest said that one poll out of ten showing Rudy beating Hillary all of washington was going googoo over this one poll"
Now the Pew organization brings forth this poll and they took a bigger sampling of folks to get a better understanding of where the election stood and as the poll suggest HRC defeats Rudy by 8......
So, even though HRC was not on her game last evening there will not be any marked decrease in her lead in Iowa by 10 or in New Hampshire by 18 and 22 in South Carolina.....Most people see all the attacks as desparate by desparate men.....

I do thank you
Ben David

[rodeodance]

7. can you imagine have a guy with a face that for our PRES!!!!

[aquart]

8. Only a third "call themselves" Dems? Really?

72 million registered Democrats
55 million registered Republicans
42 million registered independents and minor parties
__________

169 million divided by three equals 56.33333333333. So not quite a third of voters are registered Republicans. Much more than a third are Democrats. So many that the Dems only need 13 million independent votes to win. Republicans need 30 million. That is why they have to cheat. They cannot win an honest election.

[calimary]

9. Well, mr. rove, there's your Great Political Realignment.

Good job there, li'l turdblossom!

Happiness is seeing republi-CONS sent straight to the back of the room, and KEPT there!

[...of J.Temperance]

10. There's something "dark" about The Ghoul, you see it in EVERY picture of him

He's a SERIOUSLY scary individual, and it'd be God Help if this sinister creature EVER became POTUS....I see nothing in his eyes, they're dead and black, like a sharks eyes....or a serial killer's eyes....and this is WITHOUT even mentioning all the ways that he's a TOTAL sack of shit, I might add.

Senator Clinton looks really warm in that picture.

[JeanGrey]

11. It is very dangerous to believe that Hillary will pull repubicans

and take the south. I just don't see it happening and I live here.