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Posted: 3/12/06 at 7:28pm
If this was posted before I completely apologize, but I searched and didn't see it.
"The political artist formerly known as Hizzoner -- the sometimes wrathful Rudolph W. Giuliani -- is the politician about whom the most Americans feel warm and cuddly, according to a new national "thermometer" poll.
Quinnipiac University asked 1,900 voters to rate the warmth of their feelings about a dozen political leaders-- a "feeling thermometer" the pollsters called it. Fully 63.5 percent of Americans report feeling warmly about Giuliani, who ruled New York as mayor from 1994 to 2001. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) evokes warm feelings in 59.9 percent of respondents, while Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) gets 59.7 percent.
McCain and Giuliani, who just might face off in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, draw warmly in every corner of the nation, from blue state to red and magenta. In fact, Giuliani obtained his hottest rating from white evangelical voters.
What's not known is how many of those often-core Republican voters are aware that the once-annulled, once-divorced, thrice-married Giuliani favors abortion rights, gay rights and gun control. (Giuliani's first marriage was annulled after 14 years when, he says, he discovered he was married to his second cousin.)
"Will the third marriage and the fact that his second wife called him an adulterer hurt him?" asked Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "It's clear he has an image as a very strong leader -- what's not clear is if the Republican base knows about or cares about his view on social issues."
Nor is it clear that most Americans have observed that Giuliani warmth up close. In the day, the mayor was wont to dismiss "actually really stupid questions" from "jerky liberals." And an adviser once suggested he smile whenever he was tempted (often) to sneer."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701768.html
"The political artist formerly known as Hizzoner -- the sometimes wrathful Rudolph W. Giuliani -- is the politician about whom the most Americans feel warm and cuddly, according to a new national "thermometer" poll.
Quinnipiac University asked 1,900 voters to rate the warmth of their feelings about a dozen political leaders-- a "feeling thermometer" the pollsters called it. Fully 63.5 percent of Americans report feeling warmly about Giuliani, who ruled New York as mayor from 1994 to 2001. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) evokes warm feelings in 59.9 percent of respondents, while Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) gets 59.7 percent.
McCain and Giuliani, who just might face off in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, draw warmly in every corner of the nation, from blue state to red and magenta. In fact, Giuliani obtained his hottest rating from white evangelical voters.
What's not known is how many of those often-core Republican voters are aware that the once-annulled, once-divorced, thrice-married Giuliani favors abortion rights, gay rights and gun control. (Giuliani's first marriage was annulled after 14 years when, he says, he discovered he was married to his second cousin.)
"Will the third marriage and the fact that his second wife called him an adulterer hurt him?" asked Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "It's clear he has an image as a very strong leader -- what's not clear is if the Republican base knows about or cares about his view on social issues."
Nor is it clear that most Americans have observed that Giuliani warmth up close. In the day, the mayor was wont to dismiss "actually really stupid questions" from "jerky liberals." And an adviser once suggested he smile whenever he was tempted (often) to sneer."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701768.html
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