Public: Giuliani Has Best Chance of Defeating Clinton

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Public: Giuliani Has Best Chance of Defeating Clinton
Less than half say other Republicans stand chance of defeating Clinton

PRINCETON, NJ -- The vast majority of Americans say former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has an excellent or good chance both of being elected president and of defeating Hillary Clinton in the November 2008 general election if Clinton is the Democratic presidential candidate. None of the other leading Republican candidates comes close to Giuliani on either measure. Americans give Giuliani, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney slightly better chances of “being elected president” than of “defeating Hillary Clinton.”

Giuliani also has an advantage in perceived electability over the rest of the Republican field in a series of head-to-head electability comparisons against McCain, Romney, and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson. Giuliani has at least a 40-point electability advantage in each of these comparisons.

Democrats, independents, and Republicans all rate Giuliani as the GOP’s best bet in 2008.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/102505/Public-Giuliani-Has-Best-Chance-Defeating-Clinton.aspx#1

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[issac the dragon]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6751.html



Pat Robertson, one of the nation's most influential Christian leaders, plans to endorse former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani today, the Politico has learned.

Giuliani has struggled to win support of social conservatives because of his moderate views on abortion and gay rights. But now he has one of the most resonant imprimaturs with Christian voters.

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), meanwhile, plans to announce his surprise endorsement of former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president on Wednesday, a campaign official told Politico.

The endorsement is to be announced in Dubuque, Iowa.

The alliance gives McCain — once a front-runner, now struggling — a crucial bridge to social conservatives, an important constituency that has remained suspicious of him despite his opposition to abortion.

It comes at a time when the public and general-interest media are focusing increasingly on the race, with the Iowa caucuses less than two months from now and the general election just under a year away.
Brownback, likely to run for Kansas governor, abandoned his long-shot quest for the Republican nomination in Topeka on Oct. 19, saying: “My yellow brick road came just short of the White House this time.”

Brownback’s support was so energetically sought by the remaining Republican candidates that the Politico’s Jonathan Martin dubbed it “the Brownback primary.”

Martin reported Oct. 25 that Brownback had warmed to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani during a meeting at the Kansan’s senate office.

“He’s talked about a number of key pieces of what a president would have, whether it’s funding, appointments on the court, I’m much more comfortable with that,” Brownback said, adding that he was reassured about his former rival’s position on the issue “of life.”

His chief rival for the Republican nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, had his own conservative coup on Monday when he was endorsed by Paul Weyrich, a well-known and influential leader on the right."

I'm not sure this will help him. It totally turns me off. Pat Robertson is a nut case.

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I just read one the other day that gave the advantage to Clinton over Rudy or any other Publican.