GoChiefs
02-26-2007, 05:24 PM
F*ck yeah. Work that shit.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/26/wuspols26.xml
The former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, took a strong lead in the race to win the Republican party's presidential nomination yesterday.
An opinion poll gave him a 22-point lead on John McCain, the veteran senator and former favourite.
Mr Giuliani was hailed as an American hero for his dignified and unflustered handling of the fraught aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Yesterday that legacy appeared to have caught the imagination of Republican voters.
A poll conducted by Quinnipiac University showed that 40 per cent of them would choose him to succeed President George W Bush next year and lead the campaign against the Democrats.
Senator McCain, 70, took only 18 per cent of the poll, while Mitt Romney, a Mormon and former governor of Massachusetts was on seven per cent.
Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, attracted the support of 10 per cent of Republicans even though he has not declared his candidacy.
A separate survey by the polling firm Rasmussen suggested that if America were voting today for a new president and the contest was between Mr Giuliani and the Democrat contender Senator Hillary Clinton, the former mayor would be heading for the White House.
It was suggested that he would defeat the former First Lady by 53 to 42 per cent.
Mr Giuliani's prospects have been dismissed in the past on account of his support for abortion rights, gay marriage and gun control.
However in the absence of any credible socially conservative candidate, many Christian voters are prepared to set aside their concerns about "America's Mayor", trusting that the leadership qualities he displayed in New York City compensate for his heresies on social issues.
In a move to placate conservative concerns on these issues, Mr Giuliani has recently said that although he is personally "pro-choice" he would nominate conservative "constructionist" judges such as those Mr Bush has appointed to the Supreme Court.
Mr Giuliani's ascent, however, also reflects conservative discomfort with the other major candidates.
Many conservatives have not forgiven Mr McCain for his past breaks with conservative orthodoxy.
His advanced age and hawkish support for pouring more troops into Iraq have the potential to limit his appeal to independent voters.
Mr Romney, for his part, faces questions about his Mormonism and accusations that he is an opportunist, cynically reinventing himself to win support from social conservatives despite the fact that as recently as 2002 he ran as a "pro-choice" candidate in Massachusetts.
Republicans have picked the early front-runner in seven of the past 10 elections.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/26/wuspols26.xml
The former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, took a strong lead in the race to win the Republican party's presidential nomination yesterday.
An opinion poll gave him a 22-point lead on John McCain, the veteran senator and former favourite.
Mr Giuliani was hailed as an American hero for his dignified and unflustered handling of the fraught aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Yesterday that legacy appeared to have caught the imagination of Republican voters.
A poll conducted by Quinnipiac University showed that 40 per cent of them would choose him to succeed President George W Bush next year and lead the campaign against the Democrats.
Senator McCain, 70, took only 18 per cent of the poll, while Mitt Romney, a Mormon and former governor of Massachusetts was on seven per cent.
Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, attracted the support of 10 per cent of Republicans even though he has not declared his candidacy.
A separate survey by the polling firm Rasmussen suggested that if America were voting today for a new president and the contest was between Mr Giuliani and the Democrat contender Senator Hillary Clinton, the former mayor would be heading for the White House.
It was suggested that he would defeat the former First Lady by 53 to 42 per cent.
Mr Giuliani's prospects have been dismissed in the past on account of his support for abortion rights, gay marriage and gun control.
However in the absence of any credible socially conservative candidate, many Christian voters are prepared to set aside their concerns about "America's Mayor", trusting that the leadership qualities he displayed in New York City compensate for his heresies on social issues.
In a move to placate conservative concerns on these issues, Mr Giuliani has recently said that although he is personally "pro-choice" he would nominate conservative "constructionist" judges such as those Mr Bush has appointed to the Supreme Court.
Mr Giuliani's ascent, however, also reflects conservative discomfort with the other major candidates.
Many conservatives have not forgiven Mr McCain for his past breaks with conservative orthodoxy.
His advanced age and hawkish support for pouring more troops into Iraq have the potential to limit his appeal to independent voters.
Mr Romney, for his part, faces questions about his Mormonism and accusations that he is an opportunist, cynically reinventing himself to win support from social conservatives despite the fact that as recently as 2002 he ran as a "pro-choice" candidate in Massachusetts.
Republicans have picked the early front-runner in seven of the past 10 elections.