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Election 2008: Kerry Trails Giuliani and McCain by Double Digits rasmussenreports.com

Arizona Senator John McCain ® leads Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (D) 53% to 36% in a hypothetical Election 2008 match-up. McCain is the preferred candidate across all gender and age demographics in this contest and he even pulls nearly one-quarter (24%) of Democrats' votes away from Kerry.

The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll also finds former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani ® handily beating Kerry in a potential match-up, 51% to 37%. As is the case with McCain, Giuliani wins with both men and women and with every age group.

McCain and Giuliani also lead other Democratic contenders including Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, and former Vice-President Al Gore. However, all of those candidates are more competitive than Kerry.

Still, as he mulls his political future, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's name remains in the mix of Democrats who may seek their party's presidential nomination in 2008. Kerry runs far behind the frontrunners in polling for the Democratic primary campaign.

Kerry is viewed favorably by just 41% of voters and unfavorably by 53%. That latter figure includes 37% with a very unfavorable opinion.

Giuliani is viewed favorably by 62%. McCain by 56%.

Kerry has announced that he will delay making a decision about a second run for the presidency until Spring 2007-around the same time that a book about the environment he is currently writing with his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, is due to be released.

The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports November 30-December 1, 2006. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

The most interesting thing to me is that all the polls are including Al Gore as a possible candidate. That's great news!

My response is that these polls capture a period in time when Republicans and Americans in gerneral have put Bush and Cheney out of their minds when thinking about future elections.

Currently candidates like Giuliani and McCain still have that morning freshness scent :dripple:

When it becomes their turn to have our vicious media examine their real and imagined flaws their numbers, and all Republican candidates numbers, will fall hard. Additionally, they are pared against Kerry after he had one of his remarks twisted by the mainstream media in a way that no one, whether you like Kerry or not, should find comforting to anyone who desires honesty from our press. He has done well in response by waiting a little while, then going back out there and making the case for the Democratic position on current issues in this last week IMO

Al Gore/John Kerry 2008

let's get it right this time :wtf:

I know you like Kerry, Wayne, but I wouldn't want to see him as veep with Gore. Can you imagine what fun the media would have with that? I can just hear it now. "Wooden and Woodener." "Losers Redux." Oh, it would be brutal. And people call Gore dull and long-winded. Add Kerry to that, who's one of the most long-winded people I've ever heard, and it's a recipe for disaster. But I don't even really care about that. I think a northeastern liberal on the ticket is a guaranteed way to lose the race.

It's unfortunate that it has to come down to strategy, but the reality is that it does. I think Kerry would make a good veep, if he could get elected.

I understand your point, and don't expect to be popular now for my VP idea. We'll see what happens in the next few months, how people look then, and if Al runs, then whomever he selects is fine with me.

Some people are going to call Gore/takeyourpick losers anyway. As long as we are going to be Democrats why not stand by our nominees? Kerry got even more votes than Gore and he is going to look a lot better a few months from now IMO. But I understand most people here may disagree. That's fine with me. It's all just early speculation and I could be wrong again. It's just a hunch, don't feel the need to take it too seriously.



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