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Hillary Falls Behind In New Poll

April 12, 2007 on 7:57 pm | In barack obama, elections, hillary clinton, john mccain, rudy giuliani | No Comments

What candidate ‘would be best able to lead the country out of Iraq?’

Obama: 27.87%
Edwards: 24.84%
Kucinich: 17.18
Richardson: 12.26%
Clinton: 10.7%

Sen. Hillary Clinton, the current favorite to win Democratic nomination, lagged behind her most of her competition in a poll taken after a virtual town hall meeting over Iraq.

In April 10 event, 7 democratic presidential hopefuls participated.  The envent was sponsored by the influential MoveOn.org Political Action PAC, and the members picked the Illinois Senator Barack Obama as the candidate who “would be best able to lead the country out of Iraq.”

While Clinton is losing on the topic of Iraq, she still remains the frontrunner overall.  According to the latest Time magazine, the current polling shows:

DEMOCRATS

• Hillary Clinton 33 percent
• Barack Obama    26 percent
• John Edwards    25 percent

REPUBLICANS

• Rudy Giuliani  35 percent
• John McCain    20 percent
• Newt Gingrich  11 percent
• Mitt Romney    10 percent
• Fred Thompson  10 percent

John McCain In Uphill Battle

March 5, 2007 on 1:16 pm | In elections, john mccain | No Comments

According to the latest Newsweek poll of 1,202 registered voters, Rudy Giuliani has jumped to a 25 point lead over John McCain amongst republicans.  Just one month ago, McCain and Giuliani were in a statistical dead heat.

Current Results:

Rudy Guiliani: 59 Percent

John McCain: 34 Percent

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2007-03-03T222450Z_01_N03453364_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-REPUBLICANS-POLL.xml&src=rss&rpc=22