TIME Poll- Giuliani beats Hillary by 9%, Obama by 1%

[Alhena]

As I've said before, watching the Hillary nomination juggernaut roll on is like watching a car crash in slow motion. We've known for YEARS that Hillary's high negatives would make her winning the general election very difficult. And yet who do we seem poised to nominate? This TIME poll is by no means an aberration- several polls have shown Obama faring much better than her in the general election. The reason is simple: a lot of people just don't like Hillary. Are we really going to blow this election when everything is seemingly in our favor to win?

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1604469,00.html

In our poll, Hillary Clinton loses to John McCain, 42-48%, and to Rudy Giuliani 41-50%. Even though Clinton maintains a 7% edge over Obama among Democratic respondents, Obama fares better in the general election match-ups. It's so close that it's a statistical dead-heat, but Obama still loses: 43-45% to McCain, 44-45% to Giuliani.

[mnhtnbb]

1. Edwards is the smart choice for the nomination. In earlier polls

he beat both McCain and Giuliani.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. You Are A Republican Who Hates Powerful Women

Isn't it obvious?

(Oh, OK - :sarcasm:)

[saltpoint]

3. The people who will actually vote in 08 haven't gotten the full measure

of things just yet. It hasn't hit them full in the face that a new president will be chosen beginning in January of next winter, then going on until the conventions and finally the election.

There'll be plenty of shifts in the ground between now and then.

There's probably a dozen candidates who have some shot at it, some a better shot at it than others, but all viable and possible.

One of those dozen will be the next President of the United States.

[flpoljunkie]

4. "The emerging anti-Hillaries, Obama and Edwards suffer from low awareness at this point."

It's hard to know exactly why respondents who are generally unhappy towards --and in many cases fed up with -- the GOP might still prefer a Republican for president over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton's case, as TIME pollster Mark Shulman points out, "with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. She may have limited upward potential against Republicans. The emerging anti-Hillaries, Obama and Edwards, suffer from low awareness at this point."

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1604469,00.html

Also, from the above link, Edwards has surged since their last poll...

There are other interesting developments in the poll. John Edwards has surged among Democrats since he announced that his wife Elizabeth's cancer had recurred. In a three-way match-up, Clinton polls 38% among registered Democrats, vs 30% for Obama and 26% for Edwards. Edwards received just 17% in mid-March.

[Captain Hilts]

5. As people get to know Giuliani and his SLEAZY private life, they'll sour on him.

His own kids aren't speaking to him!

[flpoljunkie]

6. Will the M$M do for Giuliani what they did for Bush in 2000? Give him a pass.

[otohara]

7. Who Else Do We Know Who Had Sleazy Past?

AWOL, coke head, DUI......

[bigdarryl]

9. One problem with that ALL the candidates (except Edwards) has sleazy private lives

[PresidentObama]

12. Democrats included? What a big, fat lie. n/t

[bigdarryl]

8. The party is always shooting themselves in the FOOT look what happened in 04

Edwards was best positioned to win the general election but the party nominated Kerry instead. every time the party has a primary where one candidate raises all this money and just rolls through the primaries with easy. in the general election they get TROUNCED!!

[PresidentObama]

11. I like Edwards a lot, but wrong.

Kerry won for a reason. After Dean tanked, minus Clark, he was the best positioned candidate to raise money and go out on the campaign trail to beat Bush in 2004. I like Edwards a whole hell of a lot, and I'm glad Kerry picked him as his running mate in 04' and Edwards is my current favorite candidate in this field. But Kerry was the best positioned, not Edwards. Which is why he won the primary. And he did beat Bush, unfortunately Bush got away with it. Again. Sigh, President Gore and President Kerry. How I wish we had them right now!!

[PresidentObama]

10. Polls, poll, polls. Some of you think they're the gospel, huh?

Yawn :boring:

[jcrew2001]

13. no to hillary,

i think she can't win and it will be a definate loss if we nominate her.