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Poll: New Yorkers not sure Clinton should run for prez
By MARC HUMBERT
AP Political Writer
April 12, 2005, 2:43 PM EDT
ALBANY, N.Y. – While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2006 re-election chances look good _ unless Rudolph Giuliani challenges her _ New York voters aren’t sure she should run for president in 2008, a statewide poll reported Tuesday.
On the other hand, a slim majority of New York voters think Giuliani should run for president in 2008, according to the poll from the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Only 19 percent of New York voters want Giuliani’s fellow Republican, Gov. George Pataki, to run for president in 2008.
Last week, Giuliani’s top political aide said the former New York City mayor was just too busy with private business interests to run for senator or governor in 2006. But the mayor has not ruled out a run for president in 2008 and national polls have him as the front-runner for the GOP nomination then.
Fifty-one percent of registered voters polled by Marist said they definitely plan to vote for the former first lady when she seeks re-election next year while 31 percent said they would vote against her.
In head-to-head Senate race matchups, Clinton leads a host of potential rivals by almost 2-1 margins or better, including Pataki; her 2000 GOP opponent Rick Lazio; Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro; and Manhattan lawyer Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon.
Only Giuliani, who pulled out of the 2000 Senate race against Clinton in the face of prostate cancer, would make the 2006 Senate race competitive for Republicans, according to the poll. It had Giuliani favored by 49 percent of voters to 47 percent for Clinton.
“She pretty much runs the table except for Rudy,” said Lee Miringoff, head of the Poughkeepsie-based Marist polling operation.
Clinton’s job approval rating was 56 percent, statistically unchanged from a Marist poll conducted six months ago.
“It’s another indication that New Yorkers appreciate the good job Hillary is doing working on their behalf, and that’s what we’re going to stay focused on,” said Clinton campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis.
While the former first lady’s re-election prospects currently appear strong, 51 percent of New York voters said they don’t want her to run for president in 2008 while 44 percent said she should run for the White House. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats said she should run for president.
The former first lady has been leading national polls when Democrats are asked their favorites for the 2008 presidential nomination.
Conversely, 51 percent of New York voters, including 67 percent of Republicans and even 40 percent of Democrats, said they wanted Giuliani to run for president. Forty-percent of voters said the former mayor should not run for president.
Should Giuliani and Clinton face each other in a 2008 race for president, 51 percent of New York voters said they would back the former mayor while 43 percent said they would support the former first lady.
A nationwide Marist poll conducted in February had found that 46 percent of voters nationally wanted Clinton to run for president in 2008 and 42 percent wanted Giuliani to run.
In the new statewide poll, 74 percent of New York voters, including 66 percent of his own Republicans, said they didn’t want Pataki to run for president.
Pataki has not yet said if he will seek re-election to a fourth term as governor next year, but has said he has no desire to be a senator. Polls have shown Democratic state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer far ahead of Pataki if the governor does seek re-election. Spitzer has said he is running for governor.
Marist’s telephone poll of 705 registered voters was conducted April 4-5 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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By MARC HUMBERT
AP Political Writer
April 12, 2005, 2:43 PM EDT
ALBANY, N.Y. – While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2006 re-election chances look good _ unless Rudolph Giuliani challenges her _ New York voters aren’t sure she should run for president in 2008, a statewide poll reported Tuesday.
On the other hand, a slim majority of New York voters think Giuliani should run for president in 2008, according to the poll from the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Only 19 percent of New York voters want Giuliani’s fellow Republican, Gov. George Pataki, to run for president in 2008.
Last week, Giuliani’s top political aide said the former New York City mayor was just too busy with private business interests to run for senator or governor in 2006. But the mayor has not ruled out a run for president in 2008 and national polls have him as the front-runner for the GOP nomination then.
Fifty-one percent of registered voters polled by Marist said they definitely plan to vote for the former first lady when she seeks re-election next year while 31 percent said they would vote against her.
In head-to-head Senate race matchups, Clinton leads a host of potential rivals by almost 2-1 margins or better, including Pataki; her 2000 GOP opponent Rick Lazio; Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro; and Manhattan lawyer Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon.
Only Giuliani, who pulled out of the 2000 Senate race against Clinton in the face of prostate cancer, would make the 2006 Senate race competitive for Republicans, according to the poll. It had Giuliani favored by 49 percent of voters to 47 percent for Clinton.
“She pretty much runs the table except for Rudy,” said Lee Miringoff, head of the Poughkeepsie-based Marist polling operation.
Clinton’s job approval rating was 56 percent, statistically unchanged from a Marist poll conducted six months ago.
“It’s another indication that New Yorkers appreciate the good job Hillary is doing working on their behalf, and that’s what we’re going to stay focused on,” said Clinton campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis.
While the former first lady’s re-election prospects currently appear strong, 51 percent of New York voters said they don’t want her to run for president in 2008 while 44 percent said she should run for the White House. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats said she should run for president.
The former first lady has been leading national polls when Democrats are asked their favorites for the 2008 presidential nomination.
Conversely, 51 percent of New York voters, including 67 percent of Republicans and even 40 percent of Democrats, said they wanted Giuliani to run for president. Forty-percent of voters said the former mayor should not run for president.
Should Giuliani and Clinton face each other in a 2008 race for president, 51 percent of New York voters said they would back the former mayor while 43 percent said they would support the former first lady.
A nationwide Marist poll conducted in February had found that 46 percent of voters nationally wanted Clinton to run for president in 2008 and 42 percent wanted Giuliani to run.
In the new statewide poll, 74 percent of New York voters, including 66 percent of his own Republicans, said they didn’t want Pataki to run for president.
Pataki has not yet said if he will seek re-election to a fourth term as governor next year, but has said he has no desire to be a senator. Polls have shown Democratic state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer far ahead of Pataki if the governor does seek re-election. Spitzer has said he is running for governor.
Marist’s telephone poll of 705 registered voters was conducted April 4-5 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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