December
2006
…as their poll surge/media blitz continues to pay dividends. Dan Balz writes in the Washington Post:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), trading on star power, the capacity to raise tens of millions of dollars with relative ease and an ability to dominate media attention, are rewriting the script of the 2008 […]
South Carolina native Gamecock, just north of the border in Charlotte, can’t see it from here, but Award winning conservative journalist Joel Mowbray, who worked for South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford when he was a US Representative sees a possible groundswell demand for a true conservative in the GOP Race 4 2008. He wrote the below article this […]
Yesterday, Kavon linked to the most recent Iowa poll conducted by Research 2000 and KCCI. It has many surprising elements to it, particularly on the Democratic side. Obama is tied for first with Edwards at 22% and Hillary is down at a mere 10%. On the Republican side though, the numbers correspond to most of […]
A few days ago it was reported that Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be giving the keynote address at the important and highly visible California Republican Party semi-annual meeting in Sacramento on February 10.
In addition, it is now being reported by the Manchester (NH) Union Leader and others that Mayor Giuliani will also be addressing the […]
A couple articles of note in the last few days tackle the issue of whether Mayor Rudy Giuliani can indeed win the Republican presidential nomination given the preponderance of conservative voters in GOP caucuses and primaries. Ralph Z. Hallow talks to some Republican leaders and provides his analysis for the Washington Times as does Michael Barone in […]
…with lots of interesting results you can see here.
The short version: Obama surging, Hillary in trouble, Rudy G. and McCain in a dead heat. Remember, this is not a national poll, so it doesn’t necessarily contradict the two recent polls that showed a Hillary surge…
Has Rudy really been this underestimated?
Pollster.com has an interesting summary of the poll standings for the Republican nomination in 2008. It makes the point, largely overlooked by political writers of all stripes, that Rudy Giuliani has been leading John McCain in the large majority of polls, albeit usually by narrow margins. Political writers seem to […]
Jonah Goldberg of National Review pens a very positive editorial on the prospects for Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the next presidential contest.
It seems we can add Goldberg to National Review stalwart and colleague Richard Brookhiser as converts to the Giuliani cause in 2008.
The Prince of Darkness, while acknowledging the Newsweek Poll’s notorious over-sampling of Democrats, takes note of McCain’s punctured aura of inevitability — but also discusses the continued shortcomings of the Senator’s chief challengers:
The big edge in the Newsweek poll of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is disconcerting to Republicans who have come to […]
I joined D’08 reader Patrick in skepticism over the Newsweek poll that showed Hillary over both McCain and Rudy and trouncing Romney - but the result has been confirmed by a second poll by CNN:
47 percent of the 1,019 people surveyed said they would vote for Clinton, D-New York, — and also for McCain, R-Arizona. […]
For those hardcore Rudy supporters, and also for those who doubt his ability to win over conservatives, here’s a peak at the talking points from his record Rudy G. will stress in his almost-certain-now presidential campaign, care of his new website:
* Fighting Crime
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* Cutting Taxes
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* Fiscal Responsibility
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* Welfare Reform
* Improving Education
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* Quality of Life
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* Protecting Children
Sounds pretty […]
I’ve given up analyzing the monthly GOP Bloggers online straw polls, as a) there’s very little change from month-to-month and b) the results vary so heavily on which websites link to them that it’s probably not a very accurate indicator of the level of support any given candidate actually has, even though the polls can […]