New poll shows Hillary out front, Ghouliani highest repuke at single digits

[jefferson_dem]

New poll shows Hillary out front, Ghouliani <sic> highest repuke at single digits

These are some interesting results, as if we had a blanket primary, with all candidates on a single ballot. It's a WSJ Online Poll so take it for whatever it's worth...

Hillary Clinton Leads Pack
Of '08 Hopefuls, Poll Indicates
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
February 14, 2007

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) is leading the pack of presidential hopefuls as the campaign for the 2008 election begins, a new poll indicates.

The Harris Interactive poll, which was conducted online Feb. 2-8, among 3,423 adults, shows that 20% of U.S. adults would most likely vote for Ms. Clinton if they had to choose one candidate from a list of those who may run. Ten percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.) and 8% said they would choose former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Take a look at who is in the running for the 2008 presidential election, who's out and who's somewhere in the middle.The poll indicates that for 45% of respondents, their first choice for president would be a Democratic candidate, while 31% would choose a Republican candidate.

<SNIP>

Forty-one percent of Republicans polled indicated they would consider a Democratic leader for president, while 35% of Democrats said they would consider a Republican candidate.

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"If you could vote for one candidate, who would you most likely vote for?"
Base: All adults

PARTY ID
TOTAL Republican Democrat Independent
Hillary Clinton 20% 4% 36% 16%
Barack Obama 10 3 18 8
Rudy Giuliani 8 21 2 6
Colin Powell 6 12 2 6
John McCain 6 15 1 5
John Edwards 5 1 9 4
Al Gore 4 1 7 4
Newt Gingrich 3 8 1 1
Condoleezza Rice 3 6 * 2
Mitt Romney 1 3 - 1
Mike Huckabee 1 2 * *
John Kerry 1 * 2 1
Bill Richardson 1 * 1 1
Joe Biden 1 * 1 1
Joe Lieberman 1 * * 1
Other** 12 N/A N/A N/A
Not at all sure 15 13 14 18

* less than 0.5%
**Note: Elizabeth Dole, Tom Tancredo, Tommy Thompson, Sam Brownback, Michael Bloomberg, George Pataki, Chuck Hagel, Bill Frist, Duncan Hunter, Wesley Clark, Dennis Kucinich, Mark Warner, Russ Feingold, Evan Bayh, Howard Dean, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel, Tom Vilsak and Frank Keating were all listed and were chosen by less than 0.5%, were all listed and were chosen by less than 0.5%

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117139500515407551-BvJ5YLbrUKcxHXAjxVMf9s5Gg2g_20080213.html

[oasis]

1. Hilltopper.

:bounce:

[fuzzyball]

2. No surprise...HRC is the snow white in the race

also shocking to see Wes Clark down near zero.

[FrenchieCat]

4. No really a surprise on Clark.....

His name recognition must be at about 30% if that.

[Bucky]

5. He's a strategist. I suspect he's waiting for a vulnerable entry point to appear

It's not like Bosnia where he'd be pounding the opposition from high above. He's got to fight a guerilla campaign against half a dozen other guerillas and two and a half 800 pound gorillas simultaneously. Not a favorable combat environment. I'm not sanguine.

[wordpix]

3. LOL--"Ghoul"iani, hahaha

[oasis]

6. kick

[Colobo]

7. Good thing is that

Obama can still improve! :)

[OHdem10]

8. CNN showed latest poll results

Hillary and Guilliani are out front in each of their
respective parties.

In NY Hillary leads Guilliani by 10points.

In Nationwide Matchup essentially tied. Guilliani only a slight
lead within margin of error.

[oasis]

10. "Rudy fatique" will hit the nation around September 2007.

:puke:

[Clarkie1]

9. What would really be shocking

is if either of the top two are in the same postition a year from now.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. More interesting than the Dem Horserace...

later in the article, it shows that only 58% of those surveyed would even consider one of the Republican candidates and only 31% declared one of the Republican candidates as their "first choice." The Democrats, in general, have nearly 50% advantage in the "first choice" question.

American is clearly sick and tired of Republican leadership. They voted them out of Congress, and they appear to be prepared to do the same with the White House.