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…with 24% of likley GOP voters, but Condi is a surprise #2 with 18%, followed by McCain at 17%. 
In potential general election matchups, Rudy ties Hillary with 46% each, but leads Obama and Al Gore. 
Full results here…

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…despite what some of you may think; I’m an easy-going, live-and-let-live type who is all in favor of peace, love, and understanding. Still, sometimes the news is so bad that you can’t sugar-coat it, and Iran’s nuclear program is one such story:
New traces of plutonium and enriched uranium — potential material for atomic warheads [...]

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Dick Armey feels the GOP needs to get back to the Reagan vision - the ‘big tent’ vision. He does not feel that Rudy Giuliani is capable of winning the primaries as a Republican candidate.
Basically - you have to be against abortion and against gay marriage in order to be a serious Republican candidate, [...]

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I am very happy to see that Rudy Giuliani has thrown his hat into the ring and stepped up as a possible candidate for President in ‘08. So far, he is the one Republican candidate that I can take a serious look at for ‘08. Conservative Republicans caution about Rudy - because of [...]

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The Republican race for the 2008 nomination just got a HELL of a lot more interesting…Rudy G. has seemingly answered months of on-again/off-again speculation with…it’s on, baby!

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, a moderate Republican best known for his stewardship of the city after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has taken the first step in a [...]

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Some very interesting results from a post-election poll by Newsweek:
Just about everyone believes the Republicans lost the 2006 midterms more than the Democrats won it. Presented with a list of factors that may have contributed to the Democrats’ success, 85 percent of Americans said the “major reason” was disapproval of the administration’s handling of [...]

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Yet another voice adds itself to the chorus of those who do not see a defeat for conservatism in Tuesday’s results, that of Charles Krauthammer:
… [T]he great Democratic wave of 2006 is nothing remotely like the great structural change some are trumpeting. It was an event-driven election that produced the shift of power one would [...]

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Rudy Giuliani, dubbed “America’s Mayor” by none other than French President Jacque Chirac, has consistently come out at, or near, the top of polls for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. These same polls have Senator McCain and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rounding out the top three. The rest of the pack are [...]

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Marist College Institute for Public Opinion - WNBC

Sept. 2006
Feb. 2006

RudyCondiMcCainGingrichRomneyFristAllenPatakiBrownbackTancredoHagelOtherUndecided

23%20%15% 7% 4% 4% 2% 2% 1% 1% – na 21%

22%22%22% 5% 4% 2% 2% 2% – 1% 1%an 17%

The results of a recent Marist poll seem to reflect [...]

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Hillary’s presidential campaign seems to be in real danger of running out of steam, and that’s bad news for Democrats, as, if the primaries were held today, the number one candidate would appear to be the not-ready-for-prime-time (and horrible campaigner) John Edwards:
Today’s Iowa Poll of the 2008 race for president in the Hawkeye state ought [...]

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Last month at the Iowa State Fair, there was a Presidential straw poll. In true Iowa fashion, the “Cast Your Kernel” poll had a corn theme. Channel 13 WHO-TV sponsored the poll . they wrote the names of 10 potential Democrats and 10 potential Republican presidential candidates on hard kernels of corn. People could take [...]

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John McCain is playing coy about his 2008 run:
Sen. John McCain said Tuesday there is “lingering resentment” among some Republicans because of his primary fight in 2000 with George W. Bush.
Those feelings may complicate his decision whether to seek the presidential nomination for 2008, said McCain, R-Ariz.
“If I run, and we’ll decide that early next [...]

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…but one I wish we had the good fortune to have to make.  For the record, I chose Giuliani/Romney, on the solid principle that the top of the ticket means more than the bottom…

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