Politics Blog http://forumpolitics.com/blogs the official politics blog for forumpolitics.com Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:52:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Hillary Falls Behind In New Poll http://forumpolitics.com/blogs/2007/04/12/hillary-falls-behind-in-new-poll/ http://forumpolitics.com/blogs/2007/04/12/hillary-falls-behind-in-new-poll/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:57:06 +0000 fpcom barack obama elections hillary clinton john mccain rudy giuliani http://forumpolitics.com/blogs/2007/04/12/hillary-falls-behind-in-new-poll/ Hillary ClintonWhat 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

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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

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