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Obama
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61.36%
McCain
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29.55%
Other
4
9.09%
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Giuliani is taking the lead
I also added Gallup Poll results to the first Post instead of a written list.
A Fox News poll of Jan. 30-31 shows the former mayor jumping out to a significant lead among Republicans - 34 to 22 percent.
I also added Gallup Poll results to the first Post instead of a written list.
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2008 Presidential Battle Closely Contested for Now
There are more poll results at the bottom of the article.
Three of the four current frontrunners for the Democratic and Republican nominations for president in 2008 can each credibly claim they would give their political party as good a chance as anyone of winning the general election next year. That is no minor point, as Gallup polling suggests voter perceptions of the candidates' national viability could be a crucial factor in determining who they throw their support to.
According to the new USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 9-11, 2007, both frontrunners for the Republican nomination (Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani) are nearly tied with the Democratic frontrunner (New York Sen. Hillary Clinton) in hypothetical match-ups for the 2008 fall election. Whether voters are asked to choose between Clinton and McCain or Clinton and Giuliani, the race is within three points.
Clinton leads McCain by three points, 50% vs. 47%, while Clinton trails Giuliani by two points, 48% vs. 50%. However, given the margin of sampling error for the survey, those leads are not significant.
According to the new USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 9-11, 2007, both frontrunners for the Republican nomination (Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani) are nearly tied with the Democratic frontrunner (New York Sen. Hillary Clinton) in hypothetical match-ups for the 2008 fall election. Whether voters are asked to choose between Clinton and McCain or Clinton and Giuliani, the race is within three points.
Clinton leads McCain by three points, 50% vs. 47%, while Clinton trails Giuliani by two points, 48% vs. 50%. However, given the margin of sampling error for the survey, those leads are not significant.
There are more poll results at the bottom of the article.
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OMG !!! R U voting in the primaries? ROFLMAO ;-)
Contributed by Daren Briscoe - Posted: February 20, 2007 6:49:06 PM
For the most part, handicappers of the 2008 presidential race are still using ye olde traditional yardsticks to measure which candidates are gaining or losing the early ground. They scrutinize big-name endorsements, obsess over the very latest polling out of New Hampshire and track how many $1,000 a-plate dinners each campaign can sell out. But there's a new marker of the elusive "it" factor: The number of people who have added you as a MySpace friend.
Okay, so it may not be as "important" as a candidate's plan to get out of Iraq or revamping social security; but as any MySpace member can tell you, there are way better measures of success than your "qualifications" and "abilities"--like, how popular you are. Here's what we mean. Most polls show Hillary Clinton with a double-digit lead over Barack Obama. But that number is pretty meaningless when you consider that 44,445 people count Obama as a MySpace friend, while only 23,667 count Hillary as a pal, according to TechPresident.com, which tracks web coverage of the presidential campaign. On the GOP side, John McCain (1,369 MySpace friends) and Rudy Giuliani (651 MySpace friends) are always listed as the early GOP frontrunners. But Mitt Romney has the edge on both, with his 1,405 Myspace buddies. Even so, all three of the Republican candidates together don't have anywhere near as many friends as Obama. Experts say that's because they are nowhere near as cool.
In other words, if the election were held today, and all the voting booths were on MySpace, Obama would totally be president. But Republicans shouldn't give up just yet. Apparently--and this gets kind of technical so we're simplifying a bit--listing someone as a MySpace friend doesn't count as an actual vote for that candidate on election day. "Friending is still a bit of a murky phenomenon. It's a pretty trivial kind of association and I'd never say we should take it as any proof of what will happen as far as voter turnout," techPresident editor Micah Sifry told NEWSWEEK. Well, yeah. But it's still cool to be voted "most likely to become president" even if you wind up a total loser.
Contributed by Daren Briscoe - Posted: February 20, 2007 6:49:06 PM
For the most part, handicappers of the 2008 presidential race are still using ye olde traditional yardsticks to measure which candidates are gaining or losing the early ground. They scrutinize big-name endorsements, obsess over the very latest polling out of New Hampshire and track how many $1,000 a-plate dinners each campaign can sell out. But there's a new marker of the elusive "it" factor: The number of people who have added you as a MySpace friend.
Okay, so it may not be as "important" as a candidate's plan to get out of Iraq or revamping social security; but as any MySpace member can tell you, there are way better measures of success than your "qualifications" and "abilities"--like, how popular you are. Here's what we mean. Most polls show Hillary Clinton with a double-digit lead over Barack Obama. But that number is pretty meaningless when you consider that 44,445 people count Obama as a MySpace friend, while only 23,667 count Hillary as a pal, according to TechPresident.com, which tracks web coverage of the presidential campaign. On the GOP side, John McCain (1,369 MySpace friends) and Rudy Giuliani (651 MySpace friends) are always listed as the early GOP frontrunners. But Mitt Romney has the edge on both, with his 1,405 Myspace buddies. Even so, all three of the Republican candidates together don't have anywhere near as many friends as Obama. Experts say that's because they are nowhere near as cool.
In other words, if the election were held today, and all the voting booths were on MySpace, Obama would totally be president. But Republicans shouldn't give up just yet. Apparently--and this gets kind of technical so we're simplifying a bit--listing someone as a MySpace friend doesn't count as an actual vote for that candidate on election day. "Friending is still a bit of a murky phenomenon. It's a pretty trivial kind of association and I'd never say we should take it as any proof of what will happen as far as voter turnout," techPresident editor Micah Sifry told NEWSWEEK. Well, yeah. But it's still cool to be voted "most likely to become president" even if you wind up a total loser.
http://www.talk.newsweek.com/politic...sp?item=500462
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Even so, all three of the Republican candidates together don't have anywhere near as many friends as Obama. Experts say that's because they are nowhere near as cool.
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That has to be the dumbest thing ever. Anyone that knows anything about myspace knows that it is more frequented by liberal tending "youngsters" than conservative kids of the same age. I'll save the liberal stab at those kids....
No, the dumbest thing ever is that you didn't see that it was comedy, not to be taken at all seriously. I'll withhold the obvious stab at defensive conservatives...
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No, the dumbest thing ever is that you didn't see that it was comedy, not to be taken at all seriously. I'll withhold the obvious stab at defensive conservatives...
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Originally Posted by psoper