The latest USA Today/Gallup Poll is in, and Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence have the results:
Fresh results from the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, parts of which are being released this hour:
• In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has a 10 percentage point lead nationally over former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., maintains his place in third.• In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a 16-point lead over second-place Sen. Barack Obama. Former vice president Al Gore, who has repeatedly said he has no plans to run for the White House in 2008, comes in third.
The full story is at the link above. This is comforting news for the respective frontrunners. None of their challengers appears to be making significant progress. Even Fred Thompson's surge seems stalled, and has come at the expense of McCain, Romney, and minor candidates, since Giuliani's support is stable or rebounding slightly. The good news for McCain is he may have hit bottom now. The bad news is he still must convince people to fork over money on the hope he can stage a dramatic comeback. Romney isn't moving at all, but he has gambled it all on the earliest states and has never fared too well in the national polls, especially Gallup.
For those concerned, the miracle stealth campaign of Ron Paul surged to 0% support. He's rocking our world, all right . . .
Among Democrats, Hillary may have had to call Bill in a bit earlier than she would have liked (let's face it - she wishes she didn't have to call him in at all), but he has reinforced her top-dog status in the race. Obama has hit a wall as Democrats begin to realize his major qualifications are personal charm and not being Hillary, and that might not be enough in the general election. Gore the non-candidate beats out Edwards, who also seems to be running out of gas.
I believe some of the Gore support is an expression of dissatisfaction with the field rather than a true yearning for Gore himself. He has remained in the news with the "Live Earth" concerts and his global warming movie. It would almost take a collapse of the field and a draft to entice him to run, which seems a long shot at best.
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I believe some of the Go... (Below threshold)1. Posted by _Mike_ | July 10, 2007 10:22 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I believe some of the Gore support is an expression of dissatisfaction with the field rather than a true yearning for Gore himself.
I happened to be in front of a TV somewhere when it ran a clip from Al Gore on Larry King (I assumed the clip was recent). I heard Gore state that he's 'fallen out of love with politics' and seemed to cite something about the current political tone as part of the reason.
I couldn't help but think that he was complaining about the bed he'd help make.
1. Posted by _Mike_ | July 10, 2007 10:22 AM |
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Posted on July 10, 2007 10:22
2. Posted by steak111111 | July 10, 2007 10:22 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
If the election is between Giuliani and Klinton, WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!
2. Posted by steak111111 | July 10, 2007 10:22 AM |
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Posted on July 10, 2007 10:22
3. Posted by John in CA | July 10, 2007 11:28 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
With Ron Paul at 0% in a Gallup poll, I wonder if Pajamas Media can now take him off their weekly straw poll.
3. Posted by John in CA | July 10, 2007 11:28 AM |
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Posted on July 10, 2007 11:28
4. Posted by Glenn Koons | July 10, 2007 3:27 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
If the Republican BASE doesn't realize very very soon, the possibility of a Hil-BO ticket will win next year. The entire lower ticket, House races, Senate races, will be completely Democrat in the toughest races. That will give her the chance to leftizise the SCOTUS for a generation. The BASE has to understand that one must get elected to have any chance at impacting the conservative agenda. Thus, the best ticket that I can see is Rudy-Fred, or the opposite. I cannot see Mitt having national pull. He can't get over a 9% level and he might be better in a Pub cabinet as would Hunter.
4. Posted by Glenn Koons | July 10, 2007 3:27 PM |
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Posted on July 10, 2007 15:27