Polls show Clinton, Giuliani ahead of rivals (NY voters)

[brooklynite]

New York voters prefer Sen. Hillary Clinton over former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani by a ten-point margin, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday.

Also released on Wednesday, a national USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,006 adults showed that Mr. Giuliani, a Republican, and Ms. Clinton, a Democrat, have widened their leads among likely voters from their respective parties, making them the two most likely candidates to run in the 2008 election. In that poll, Mr. Giuliani showed a narrow two-point lead over Ms. Clinton in a general election matchup.

Both polls indicate that the two New York candidates are much more popular than competitors within their parties, with Mr. Giuliani 16 points ahead of Sen. John McCain among likely Republican primary voters in the national poll and 34 points ahead of the Arizona senator among registered New York Republicans polled by Quinnipiac. Mr. Giuliani has yet to formally announce that he's running.

Ms. Clinton, meanwhile, leads Illinois Sen. Barack Obama by 19 points in the USA Today/Gallup Poll and 31 points among registered New York Democrats in the Quinnipiac survey.

http://www.newyorkbusiness.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/FREE/70214005/1097/newsletter01

[AX10]

1. Hillary is NOT my first choice, but I will support the nominee....

in 2008. Yes, she is ALOT better than the least offensive Republic, if there is such as thing.

[UrbScotty]

4. Agreed (nt)

[HockeyMom]

2. If the Democratic candidate were Obama,

he would still beat Rudy in New York by a wide margin, according to one poll I saw. Looks like any way you cut it, Rudy would lose his home state.

[BlueStater]

3. Hillary vs. Rudy? Ick.

That's a terrible election.

[Acadia Blue]

5. Exactly. A DLC Nafta tooting witch who will lose it for us versus a

lieing corporatist sleeze. I don't want Hillary to win to lose it. I don't know anyone who likes her either because of her prowar hawk like behavior or her kill the middle class with unfair trade mantra that Bill supported and so did she. Bill damaged the Middle Class and the poor, and he created the telecommunications act that further consolodated the media. Bill did so much good for the republicans and hurt core democrates. I don't like either of them. And its not the sex thing because I don't care about that like crazy religious freaks.

[David Dunham]

6. Hillary has a 20 point lead in the Gallup poll. Only Gore might catch her.

[Dean Martin]

7. I think those will change

I think poll predictions are way too early. There's still over a year until the convention. I think it's way too early to base anything on polls.

[rinsd]

8. Ya know what is so tiresome the "no one like Hillary" meme

Her approval ratings are in the 60's and her approval ratings from Democrats and Liberals are in the 80's.

"he created the telecommunications act that further consolodated the media"

Bill Clinton wrote the Telecomm act of 1996?

[nedbal]

10. Rudy vs. Hillary: Contest Narrows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 3, 1999

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http://www.maristpoll.marist.edu/nyspolls/990303HC.HTM

This Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll reports:

Rudy vs. Hillary: Contest Narrows

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• First Lady Hillary Clinton edges potential GOP rival Rudy Giuliani for the U.S. Senate seat in New York in 2000. The gap has narrowed from a similar poll conducted two weeks ago. A wide gender gap exists in this contest.

Question Wording: If the next election for U.S. Senate in New York State were held today, whom would you support if the candidates are Rudy Giuliani the Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democrat?

Registered Voters

Giuliani
Clinton
Undecided

March 1999
45.5%
49.7%
4.9%

February 1999
38.1%
49.0%
12.9%

January 1999
42.0%
52.5%
5.5%

[ohio2007]

9. NY voters picking NY canidates. I'd expect that. nt

[Doondoo]

11. Doesn't mean much, the race has barely started