Poll: Clinton, Giuliani top '08 party picks, but polarizing

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/307122p-262757c.html

While Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Rudolph Giuliani are their party's top picks for the 2008 presidential nominations, both remain highly polarizing figures, according to a national poll out Friday.

Forty percent of Democrats said they favored the New York senator for the party's nomination while 18 percent opted for Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the loser of the 2004 presidential race. Fourteen percent wanted former Sen. John Edwards, Kerry's 2004 running mate, according to the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, was favored by 25 percent of Republican voters for the 2008 GOP nomination with Sen. John McCain of Arizona at 20 percent and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 10 percent.

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Miringoff said McCain and Edwards both run better against the top opposition than do Giuliani and Clinton. For instance, McCain leads Clinton, 50 percent to 42 percent, but against the former North Carolina senator it is McCain, 46 percent, and Edwards, 43 percent. "They don't have that polarization that Hillary and Rudy have," the independent pollster said.

[Elle Woods]

1. That's my greatest fear about Hillary

I love her but I know how much she is hated in certain quarters in this country. I'm afraid she'll end up making more Repugs turn out to vote than she will inspire Dems to get out and vote.

[AlmightyTallest]

2. I'm an NYer

and I'm luke-warm on Hillary. Obviously not favoring Giuliani, what with him being a Rep though I guess I would rather be stuck with him in the white house than someone like Allen or Frist. NYers have very mixed feelings about Giuliani I think, I have never live in NYC so I'm not as close to it.

It occurs to me, though it is unlikely, that if it comes down to Giuliani vs. Hillary it'll be a "subway series" election.

[Bombtrack]

3. This is so frigging idiotic. I'm pretty sure the same type of polling

showed Lieberman as the top pick for democrats in 2004 when polled in 2001

Hillary is a borderline retarded notion for any democrat to pick as our "savior". And the vast right wing conspiracy, which Hillary to her credit "outed", knows it which is why they're running her "inevitability" campaign on Faux, radio, and every other way they can.