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Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters September 14, 2005
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September 19, 2005--Senator John McCain leads Senator Hillary Clinton by 8 percentage points in an early 2008 Presidential Election poll. McCain attracts 47% of the vote while Clinton earns 39%. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani holds a 4-point edge over New York's Junior Senator, 47% to 43%. Giuliani is currently the top choice among Republicans for their party nomination. McCain is second. Some had anticipated that Giuliani would get a "Katrina bounce" based upon his performance as Mayor of New York on 9-11. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of American voters believe Giuliani would be better than Clinton at handling a natural disaster. Just 31% think Clinton would be better. Giuliani is also seen better at handling natural disasters than McCain. Fifty-nine percent (59%) say Giuliani would be better while 22% give the edge to McCain. However, in our last survey before Katrina, McCain held a 2-point edge over Clinton while Giuliani was ahead of Clinton by 3 percentage points. It is not clear why McCain gained ground and Giuliani did not. [More Below]
When it comes to handling the situation in Iraq, 49% of voters say Giuliani would be better than Clinton. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say Clinton would be better. Voters are evenly divided as to whether Giuliani or Clinton would do a better job managing the economy. They give a slight edge to the Republican on immigration issues. Fifty-eight percent (58%) have a favorable opinion of Giuliani while 26% have an unfavorable view. For McCain, the numbers are 52% favorable and 28% unfavorable. Clinton is far more polarizing--44% favorable and 49% unfavorable in this survey. Rasmussen Reports has been following public perceptions of Senator Clinton every other week through the Hillary Meter. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade. To keep up with our latest releases, be sure to visit the Rasmussen Reports Home Page.
The telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports September14, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. 37% of survey respondents were Republican, 37% Democrat, and 26% unaffiliated (see Methodology) |
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