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Monday, January 07, 2008
Amanda Carpenter :: Townhall.com Columnist
State of the Race: Monday, January 7, 2008
by Amanda Carpenter
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Was the Copenhagen Global Warming Summit Walk-Out a Win for the U.S.?


 

NATIONAL POLLS

REPUBLICANS:
No new polls released within the last week

DEMOCRATS
No new polls released within the last week

 

REPUBLICAN LEADER VERSUS DEMOCRAT LEADER

No new polls released in the last week

 

NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLLS
January 8

REPUBLICANS
CNN/WMUR/UNH: McCain by 6 points
McCain: 32 percent
Romney: 26 percent
Huckabee: 12 percent
Giuliani: 11 percent
Paul 10 percent
Thompson: 1 percent 

Suffolk/WHDH: Romney by 3 points
Romney: 30 percent
McCain: 27 percent
Giuliani: 10 percent
Huckabee: 9 percent
Paul: 8 percent
Thompson: 2 percent 

Marist: McCain by 4 points
McCain: 35 percent
Romney: 31 percent
Huckabee: 13 percent
Paul: 8 percent
Giuliani: 5 percent
Thompson: 4 percent

Rasmussen: McCain by 1 point
McCain: 32 percent
Romney: 31 percent
Huckabee: 11 percent
Giuliani: 10 percent
Paul: 8 percent
Thompson: 3 percent 

Franklin Pierce: McCain by 9 points
McCain: 38 percent
Romney: 29 percent
Huckabee: 9 percent
Giuliani: 8 percent
Paul: 7 percent
Thompson: 2 percent 

USA Today/Gallup: McCain by 4 points
McCain: 34 percent
Romney: 30 percent
Huckabee: 13 percent
Giuliani: 8 percent
Paul: 8 percent
Thompson: 3 percent 

Strategic Vision: McCain by 8 points
McCain: 35 percent
Romney: 27 percent
Huckabee: 13 percent
Giuliani: 8 percent
Paul: 7 percent
Thompson: 5 percent

Reuters/CSPAN/Zogby: McCain by 5 points
McCain: 34 percent
Romney: 29 percent
Huckabee: 10 percent
Giuliani: 9 percent
Paul: 6 percent
Thompson: 3 percent

American Research Group: McCain by 8 points
McCain: 35 percent
Romney: 27 percent
Huckabee: 12 percent
Giuliani: 10percent
Paul: 7 percent
Thompson: 2 percent

FOX News: McCain by 7 points
McCain: 34 percent
Romney: 27 percent
Huckabee: 11 percent
Giuliani: 9 percent
Paul: 5 percent
Thompson: 2 percent 

Concord Monitor: McCain by 6 points
McCain: 35 percent
Romney: 29 percent
Huckabee: 13 percent
Giuliani: 8 percent
Paul: 7 percent
Thompson: 3 percent

Mason-Dixon: McCain by 8 points
McCain: 32 percent
Romney: 24 percent
Huckabee: 12 percent
Giuliani: 9 percent
Paul: 8 percent
Thompson: 3 percent

DEMOCRATS:

CNN/WMUR/UNH: Obama by 10 points
Obama: 39 percent
Clinton: 29 percent
Edwards: 16 percent
Richardson: 7 percent
Suffolk/WHDH: Obama by 1 point
Obama: 35 percent
Clinton: 24 percent
Edwards: 15 percent
Richardson: 3 percent

Marist: Obama by 8 points
Obama: 36 percent
Clinton: 28 percent
Edwards: 22 percent
Richardson: 7 percent

Rasmussen: Obama by 10 points
Obama: 38 percent
Clinton: 28 percent
Edwards: 18 percent
Richardson: 8 percent

CBS News: Obama by 7 points
Obama: 35 percent
Clinton: 28 percent
Edwards: 19 percent
Richardson 5 percent

USA Today/Gallup: Obama by 13 points
Obama: 41 percent
Clinton: 28 percent
Edwards: 19 percent
Richardson: 6 percent

Franklin Pierce: Obama by 3 points
Obama: 34 percent
Clinton: 31 percent
Edwards: 20 percent
Richardson: 6 percent

Strategic Vision: Obama by 9 points
Obama: 38 percent
Clinton: 29 percent
Edwards: 19 percent
Richardson: 7 percent

Reuters/CSPAN/Zogby: Obama by 10 points
Obama: 39 percent
Clinton: 29 percent
Edwards: 19 percent

American Research Group: Obama by 11 points
Obama: 39 percent
Clinton: 28 percent
Edwards: 22 percent
Richardson: 4 percent

FOX News: Obama by 4 points
Obama: 32 percent
Clinton: 28 percent
Edwards: 18 percent
Richardson: 6 percent

Concord Monitor: Obama by 1 point
Obama: 34 percent
Clinton: 33 percent
Edwards: 23 percent
Richardson: 4 percent

Mason-Dixon: Obama by 2 points
Obama: 33 percent
Clinton: 31 percent
Edwards: 17 percent
Richardson: 7 percent

 

MICHIGAN STATE POLLS
January 15 primary/caucus

REPUBLICANS
No new polls released within the last week 

DEMOCRATS
No new polls released within the last week

 

NEVADA STATE POLLS
January 19 primary/caucus

REPUBLICANS
No new polls released in the last week 

DEMOCRATS
No new polls released in the last week

 

 

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE POLLS
Republican primary/caucus January 19
Democratic primary/caucus January 29

No new polls released in the last week

 

FLORIDA STATE POLLS
January 29 primary/caucus

Republicans
CNN: Giuliani by 21 points
Giuliani: 38 percent
Romney: 17 percent
McCain: 11 percent
Thompson: 11 percent
Huckabee: 9 percent
Paul: 5 percent

Democrats
No new polls released within the last week

 

CALIFORNIA STATE POLLS
February 5 primary/caucus

No new polls released within the last week

 

NEW JERSEY
February 5 primary/caucus

No new polls released within the last week

 

PENNSLYVANIA
April 22 primary/caucus

No new polls released within the last week
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Reply # 1
Date: Jan 7, 2008 - 6:19 PM EST
You Decide

Why am I not surprised that Ron Paul had the worst showing in Fox's poll. Frank Luntz must have worked his magic.
Pathetic
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Reply # 2
Date: Jan 7, 2008 - 8:47 PM EST
Arizona Republic 10-3-99
Arizona Republic 10-3-99:

"In recent years, he's become a champion of campaign-finance reform. More than a decade ago, he took free trips to the Bahamas with savings and loan tycoon Charles Keating. He continues to take big money from interests before his committees."

"He's amassed a rogues' gallery of troublemaking former pals - Keating, Gary Hart, John Tower, Fife Symington, Duke Tully - who hardly square with his ambitions as a reformer."

"He prides himself on his personal integrity yet admits he wasn't faithful to his first wife, Carol, who was injured in a horrific car accident while McCain was in Vietnam."

"While at the Naval Academy, McCain let some subjects slide, spending his time reading history and literature and, of course, howling at the moon. He graduated fifth from the bottom of his class."

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Reply # 3
Date: Jan 7, 2008 - 9:40 PM EST
Hillary Clinton and Britney Spears
She’s engaging in a rash of extremely self destructive behavior, everybody can see it, but nobody can stop her. I’m talking about Hillary Clinton, not Britney Spears. Both women desperately need an intervention, and perhaps a 72 hour observation-stay in the hospital. Because like Britney, Hillary is melting down:

1) There’s no crying in politics: Hillary gets weepy in a transparent attempt to soften her image with women voters when asked about how tough the campaign trail was. Video here.

2) Blacks should thank whites like her for their rights: Hillary compares Obama to Martin Luther King and herself to Lyndon Johnson in the struggle for civil rights, suggesting it’s politicians like Lyndon and her that really get things done. On what planet is this a flattering comparison? (I can’t wait to see Hillary’s appendectomy scar).

3) Hillary Rove-Clinton: Darth Cheney and Mini-Me Bush gave Hillary the same advice they gave Giuliani—if you can’t beat ‘em, scare ‘em. Yep, Hillary warns voters that al-Qaeda is watching so they better vote for her or prepare to die.

Ready to lead on day one, huh? Hillary’s getting that same glazed look that Britney had during her recent MTV Awards “performance”. Next up in the Hillary-as-Britney playbook: getting photographed exiting a limo with no panties. I hear Dr. Phil is making his way to Clinton campaign headquarters as we speak. The real question tomorrow: Will Hillary lose custody of Chelsea to Bill?

READ MORE

http://controlcongress.com/uncategorized/hillary-clinton-an d-britney-spears
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Reply # 4
Date: Jan 8, 2008 - 6:44 AM EST
Trust Polls & Distrust The Pollster
How true it is that we are characterized by our habits.

We see the world and the world reflects who we are. Furthermore, how we judge or condemn others, is just a reflection of our own nature.

Mitt Romney's success now becomes his downfall, because most assume that, you cannot be rich if you do not cheat, because they think the majority do cheat.

A drinker expects all his or her friends to drink, or they cannot trust them, while in fact in that state you will agree, they are even less trustworthy. Some paradox.

Therefore, "The ugliness we see in others is only a reflection of our own nature."

So the writers that bash a persons character and integrity, really are exposing their own weakness and folly. Such attacks are generally not anything objective that could be proven one way or other, and that is why this can cheat us out of our best choice, but, most people fall for it anyway, because of fear. Fear means you lost, because you did not know enough, not to doubt.

Pointing out the failure of candidates on the issues, or their successful, achievements, and objective accomplishments, in public and private life is self-evident and can be verified.
Personal attacks cannot, and should send out a strong warning, of the weakness in that accuser.

When we realize this, we will criticize less, as well as to realize that the ugliness we see in an other is the very ugliness we need to recognize and overcome.

Take a better look at Mitt Romney. You will not, if anytime at all, find him lowering himself to name calling, or bashing any opponents character. He points out the weakness and erroneous position on the issues. You will see him in a new light, and that truth with steer you to your best choice. Good Luck!

Polls can only be as honest as the pollsters
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Reply # 5
Date: Jan 8, 2008 - 10:06 AM EST
Romney couldn't tell the truth
if he was talking to St Peter at the gates of heaven! Furthermore, his lack of appeal has nothing to do with his success, but everything to do with his past positions on abortion, gay marriage, and gun control, (very recent past I might add).

It doesn't fool a lot of voters that his epiphany was just in time for his presidential bid. Romney would have done much better running on the Democratic side. After all he did get elected in the most liberal state in the country. He also managed to give them state funded health care, gay marriage, $50 co-pay abortions. What a guy!

Thanks, but no thanks! I would rather have any of the other GOP candidates than this sneaky snake conservative fraud!

And by the way, Romney did launch the first attack add, once he realized he was getting his butt kicked in Iowa and New Hampshire! Now you sheeple can split hairs and argue that they are contrast ads, but a negative ad is just that, negative!

I want to see all of the candidates compete for my vote and do it in a honest way. I don't want them attacking their opponents to try and elevate themselves in the polls. You can't tear someone else down to make yourself look better.

Oh, and don't try to buy an election either!
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Reply # 6
Date: Jan 8, 2008 - 11:13 AM EST
O'Bama's Racist Church
Just read recently about O'Bama's Pastor at his Church, who is an extremist and Racist to the MAX. Ain't nobody, the MSM, covering this issue. I can't believe Hillary's Attack Dogs haven't jumped on this one.
I do wish we could do away with Polls and Pollsters. They are easily manipulated by the way the Questions are asked. Just another gimmick by the MSM to get the SHEOPLE to blindly follow.
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Reply # 7
Date: Jan 8, 2008 - 8:42 PM EST
Don
Do you live in Massachusetts, have you ever lived in Massachusetts? I'm a Mass native, haven't lived there in decades, however I have family there and I know that Democrat politics are as corrupt as they ever were. So what do you base your accusations on? The abortions were mandated by the same courts that mandated
homosexual marriage..they usurped the role of the legislature (with the dem.majorities blessing), Mass has a strict gun law, one that probably has old Sam Adams a twirling in his grave..if it had been in effect in 1776 we'd be Brits today. He was working with a DemonRat controlled legislature, think about it..these
people elect and re elect the Swimmer. He left them with a surplus that the current gov has
piddled away..My sister says the roads are atrocious, full of pot holes and as for immigration. He empowered the Staties to
enforce the immigrations laws which the demonRat
Patick reversed as soon as he got his grubby hands on power. And I'm not a Romney supported,
I lean towards Thompson and Hunter and waiting
to see what happens in the next few weeks.
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