Groundhog Day? In New National Poll, Giuliani Leads the Pack
- Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:23pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Will former NYC-mayor Rudy Giuliani throw his hat into the 2012 presidential race? That’s still to be determined. But, earlier today, the Sept. 11 hero and 2008 presidential candidate found himself at the top of the Republican pack.
The results of CNN’s most recent survey indicate that 16 percent of GOP adherents and independents who lean toward the Republican Party prefer Giuliani. Falling right behind him comes Mitt Romney (15 percent) and Sarah Palin (13 percent). While these numbers, at the least, show some voter goodwill toward Giuliani, they may spell trouble for a party that hopes to recapture the White House next year. As CNN reports:
Two of the three people at the top of new national poll in the battle for the Republican nomination may not even run for the White House. And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey also suggests that there is not a lot of enthusiasm about any of the major candidates.
The takeaway? Voters are still undecided. Let’s not count out Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and all of the other candidates who plan to give it their best shot. With the campaign sluggishly moving forward, there’s still plenty of time for stars to both rise and fall.
If you recall, back in 2007, Giuliani also found himself leading his rivals, but he inevitably lost that battle, leaving Republicans to nominate Sen. John McCain (and we know how that story ended).
A few days ago, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) added some fuel to Giuliani’s potential candidacy, telling journalists that he believes the former mayor will, indeed, jump into the race. King claims that Giuliani and his team have learned from their 2008 mistakes and that New Hampshire is the key. Interestingly, Giuliani is headlining the state’s Republican dinner this evening. You can see King’s comments below:
So, will he or won’t he? Anything’s possible in American politics. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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Comments (124)
kschmud
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:37pmyou have got to be kidding.
Report Post »bajasurfer
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 11:23pmThe whole system is beyond corrupt . I truly believe our votes means absolutely nothing .
Report Post »clingingtogodandguns
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:35pmObama just killed the only person i wouldn’t vote for beside him.osama
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 3:08am“Obama just killed…” Music to my ears, and people won’t forget! GOBAMA!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 1:22pmbecause Obama DID kill Osama!! CHEW ON THAT!! :)
Report Post »llotus
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:26pmWhat a mess we are in. Lotus.
Report Post »cyntro
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:22pmGotta stop letting the DNC do our polling. Giuliani, BawHaHaHa!!!
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:14pm:-( Herman Cain was the head of the Kansas City Federal Reserve System, before he was head of DOIMNO’S……………………:-(
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:09pmI’m afraid Rudy is part of ”’THE RULING CLASS”” trying to muddy the water some…………………..
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:56pmI can‘t even think of anything to say to this except I pray he doesn’t do that. It would be awfull to have to vote for him. He would be on the level of the bag of chips, I’d still have to do so, even if I cried all the way to the poll.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:52pmDear God no, not another Democrat-Lite.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 6:26amRINO-Heavy……… nothing but a NY back-room dealer.
Report Post »A likable POS
leftcoastslut
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:40pmis there a certain fund that these candidates tap into, and therefore they announce that they are running and automatically receive an amount of money, if this is so, “Lord have mercy on your soul”..amen
Report Post »G
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:34pmGiuliani, please do not run. You have been a hullva guy for NY and the country after 9/11, but I will NOT vote for you if you run.
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:44pmyeah what is this, they declare that they are running, receive federal money and then a month later declare it is all a joke?…. what is the world ending tomorrow and all you gutless men think that wealth will sustain you…
Report Post »Red Bubba
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 7:50amYa. A real genius. After the WTC attack in 1993, Rudy put together a disaster command center – in the WTC. What vision.
Report Post »Mr.Truth
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:36pmNot no but HELL NO!!!!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:21pmPlease, paisan. No.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:17pmRemember…Giuliani campaigned heavily for Scott Brown and likes to dress up in women’s clothing. … http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv280/staunchusa/giuliani_drag.jpg
Report Post »Red Bubba
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:09pmRudy was the media-selected acceptable conservative last time. Can’t somebody give a tv show or something to keep him busy?
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:07pmGood for Rudy. The more the merrier. We can sort them out after hearing them debate. The only one I really want to see drop out was that fruit loop, Donald Trump! He us a bigger Narcissist than Comrade Obozo! Who needs another one?
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:06pmCNN poll, forget about it. check out the sahra video ONE AMERICA.
Report Post »emertz8413
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:02pmGood Grief – How many wanna be‘s and has been’s do we have to suffer through until they put their foot in their mouth and leave with their head down? Rudy, your time is past man!!!
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:46pmHey Rudy would be the Perfect guy To clean-up after this disaster Thank-you to all the Vets Past and Future
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:44pmGo Away!!!!!! YOU WILL NOT WIN SO DON’T BOTHER!!! You sucked last time around and will do the same this time! You shined after 9/11 but you have dimmed since then.
Report Post »V8WATCHMAN
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:42pmGuilliani would likely have a number of McCain’s problems. I still like Herman Cain.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:39pmWell – not for me, thanks. For those that haven’t heard about Cain, who seems to be popular, check out what he said about appointing Muslims in his cabinet – after he said he wouldn’t. Disappointing.
http://visiontoamerica.org/972/herman-cain-does-180-on-islam-would-appoint-muslims-to-cabinet/
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:28pmI had heard that and did not believe it. It was disappointing to me too.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:35pmReally, says whom?
Report Post »AP, Reuters, CNBC?
Giuliani should combine forces with Romney, adopt their own unsuccessful health care plan together, and, like Gingrich, Huckabee, Trump and Thune…..vanish.
The Tea Party will decide.
GODSAMERICA
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:31pmYeah, like we can trust a CNN poll. Only those gullible foolish liberals believe in them. They will make a poll any way that they want to throw off who the most popular picks are.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:49pmThey (Libs) want to pick who runs against Dumbo………
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:39pmWhy would we care about another make believe poll from CNN???? Excuse me, I think I have to go throw up!
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:48pmI was just about to say, do they think we are going to let cnn pick our candidate, been there done that!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:31pmI’d like Rudy to directly ask Hussein :
Report Post »” why do you want a rabat @ G-0? “
Mr. Nice Guy
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:31pmMr. Giuliani, for the love of all things sacred, please do not throw your hat into the ring. Throw it away. America will never elect you president so just please go back to whatever it is you were doing.
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:33pmSounds like Giuliani and others like Perry grousing about the quality of the field. I doubt most of them will actually run. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/05/is-there-room-for-rick-perry-in-2012.html
Report Post »taxed
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:35pmGreat, they’re polling RINOs again. At what point will they just leave these guys behind?
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/index.php?board=1.0
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:40pmCNN poll wants someone that Obama *CAN* beat –
Why do you think they say RUN RUDY RUN!!!
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:41pmRudy Tudy … stay home and enjoy your Trophy wife….. geeeeeeeeeees
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:47pmGiuliani? Ron Paul schooled him in 2008, so………..
Establishment must be desperate…
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:51pmMeh, Whatever, another RINO poll. This is just New York thinking they are the center of the universe again. Give me someone from Flyover country that loves our country.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:01pmNot to worry…this was CNN POLL…that’s like saying “POLL OF WHAT LIBERALS WANT TO HEAR POLL”
I’d love to see RUDY in the CABINET…I love RUDY… but it’s PALIN/CAIN this time around.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:13pmI don’t think Giuliani is a viable candidate, however, I’m sure there is a great spot for him in the Palin administration.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:20pmPolling RINO’s and Dems … not TEA Party!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:56pmSeriuosly? We need a RINO like we need a hole in the head. The damn East Coast voters gonna pick us another LOSER.
Time to change the way the primaries are run. Screw Rudy. If he gets the nod I stay home and let Obama tear the country to shreads so we can rebuild it.
Report Post »CONAN THE CONSERVATIVE
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:11pmFor the love of God, please no more RINOs!
Report Post »Intellectual Honesty
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:24pmDon’t mistake difficult to defend positions for difficult to find candidates.
Charisma won’t get Medicare replacement coupons past seniors, nor will “guts” be confused for wisdom when it comes to extending tax cuts for billionaires at the expense of the deficit. Unless the GOP nominates a hypnotist these positions are going to be nearly impossible to justify to the majority. Not to mention healthcare repeal, outlawing abortions, elimination of social safety nets, de-funding the EPA, accusing the president of being an un-American terrorist appeaser, demolishing unions, curtailing unemployment benefits, reducing higher education assistance, etc.
The chef isn’t the problem, its the crap-sandwiches the GOP primary voters are forcing the chefs to prepare for people that don’t like the flavor of crapola. It matters not that they’re easier to keep down while guzzling tea. The majority of Americans don’t drink tea either.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:07pm@Intellectual Honesty: your soros funded fantasy sounds almost believable as long as you totally missed the last election results and live in a liberal bubble like San Fran Sicko.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:13pmToo early to get upset about Rudy or anyone else at this point. Polls are so unreliable, especially from CNN or any other lib outpost. I want to listen to what they all have to say. So I sure hope there are alot of debates coming up. In 2008, Obama came out of left field (pun intended) and took the nomination. Maybe there is a conservative waiting to do the same thing. Bring it on.
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:15pmINTELLECTUAL HONESTY: I will give you the one on Medicare, especially since they need money for the gay film festival, 47% of Americans do not pay taxes, in fact if you have enough children round here you can receive 3000 to 10000 in returns, after you don’t pay taxes. Last time I checked the majority does not want obamacare, and the rest are getting waivers. If you can live with the idea of killing babies, fine, don’t ask me to be an accomplice by paying for it. Social safety nets should only be for American citizens. I don’t know what Obama is, other than he is not a leader. Unions are demolishing America, and they are buying politicians. Unemployment would not need to be extended if there were any jobs. Higher education? profession college students, course you can’t blame them, no jobs. The epa have put as many if not more people out work than this Administration.
Report Post »bestartist
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:38pmEchoing a lot of what others wrote….
Report Post »it’s a CNN poll, silly.
101
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:59pmFunny that any guaranteed loser that the elitist want running against BO is always at the top of the poll rating!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 10:21pmCNN? CLINTON NEWS NETWORK?
Report Post »Why would I listen to them?
Rudy? You were great during 9/11 Thank You
I don’t live in NY and guess what?
There are alot of people who live between NY and Malibu
Go to a Yankee game/Enjoy your life.
MIBUGNU2
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 10:23pmNo RINOS 2012
Report Post »Intellectual Honesty
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 10:50pmYou’re missing the point, if Obama is really supporting some of the worst policies in the history of the country, and logic made it very easy to draw a bright line between U.S. failure and Obama, than a GOP landslide should be a snap right?
The fact is, positions GOP primary voters care about are not shared by the majority of Americans. Moreover, the demonizing of Obama may go down like a cool drink to many of you, but most of the country is rather fond of the man, particularly when contrasted to Bush and the GOP. Of course, try to convince people of your wisdom, and win or lose the next election in a battle of ideas. But again, when the ideas you espouse are dismissed as “bad” so easily…and by so many, then the GOP is going to face a tough go of it. And hey, I’ll even grant you that plenty of the GOP candidates seem capable, but if the majority of voters are put off by their ideas- I‘m afraid you’re going to need to find a magician. I wonder if the Amazing Kreskin is a Republican? Heck, it wouldn’t hurt to give him a call at this point.
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 10:55pmI really hope he does not run.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »wysime
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 12:14amTime to stop pussyfooting around with “reasonable” “Moderates” – I’m sick of the same old same old and want a balls to the wall Conservative – who delivers what I want to hear in a clear and forceful manner (say like Israels leader did recently – NO BS sensible and from the heart)
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 4:35amFirst, this poll is bogus, who in their right mind would want Giuliani as our nominee.
Maybe Giuliani should run for mayor of New York again, if anything.
Report Post »BidBerthaDotCom
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 10:30amIf Rudy, Newt or Mitt gets the nomination I’ll be voting Libertarian. Screw the GOP establishment and their tired, predictable stable of RINOs, and screw the folks who say Ron Paul can‘t win because he doesn’t look or act like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Those methods of thinking worked so well last time they were tried, didn’t they…
Obama has done more to wake up folks to the importance of following the Constitution and Bill of Rights than any president at least in my lifetime, and for the republican party to squander that re-instituted constitutional fervor on a RINO would show exactly where they stand, should it work out that way. I’d rather stay home on election day and prepare for the resultant communist revolution Obama will likely bring us than vote for the lesser of two evils. Again.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 11:57amI’ll re-elect Obama before I vote for Giuliani. I’d rather keep Obama in office then to put a fake conservative into office. By doing so, we will not get better as a country but rather just give the democrats more ammunition to win back the power in 2016 or 2020. It’ll go back and forth, back and forth as per usual. I’d rather let Obama keep screwing things up so we can finally have a real conservative like Ron Paul, or his son, in office.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 1:13pmJust what we need another liberal Republican in the race.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 1:13pmSURE! Let ‘em ALL jump in! The water’s nice! :D
Report Post »keenwhiz
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 5:26pmAgree. That ship has sailed.
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