Americans Say No To Hillary And Newt
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, PollsZogby recently did a poll, and asked a question about who people would absolutely NOT vote for in 2008. The results? Voters are looking for new leadership.
Zogby? (emphasis mine)
With the actual voting still a long way into the future, more than half of the American electorate has already made up its mind about who they won’t be casting ballots for in 2008 – 53% said they would never vote for Newt Gingrich, even as the Georgia firebrand continues to mull a jump into the field of Republican presidential candidates, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.The leading Democrat in the race can’t feel much solace – nearly half (46%) said they have an aversion to voting for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. In a national Zogby telephone survey of likely Democratic primary voters in late February, she led the field of Democratic presidential candidates at 33%. It’s no surprise Clinton has been written off by a vast majority of self-described conservative (70%) and very conservative (79%) voters, but even among moderate voters, 42% said they would never cast a vote to put Clinton into the White House.
You know, I find this refreshing actually because we’re moving past the politics of the 90s. People want somebody new, and they think Newt and Hillary have too much baggage. Good.
But what about the other contenders?
Overall, around a third of voters said they would never vote for the other two Democratic Presidential frontrunners – 35% would never cast a ballot for John Edwards and 33% said they could never support Barack Obama. Among Democrats, 18% would never cast a vote in Clinton’s favor, 19% would never vote for Obama and 20% would never vote for Edwards.There is similar voter resistance to the top declared Republican candidates – 39% said they wouldn’t vote for Mitt Romney, while 32% would never vote for John McCain and 31% for Rudy Giuliani. Among Republicans, 20% said they would never help Giuliani win the presidency, while 24% felt the same about McCain and 34% about Romney.
Hmm…Romney gets 14% more “nay” votes than Giuliani. I wonder if that has anything to do with sincerity?
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March 18th, 2007 at 9:16 am
If you want to block gay marraige in your state in 2008, you should hope Hillary runs for president in order to motivate people to get to the polls.
March 18th, 2007 at 11:28 am
By the poll numbers, if the election were held today & Newt & Hillary were the candidates, that means Hillary would win with 53% of the vote, with 1% voting “none of the above”. That is assuming that the numbers for both actually mean ” definitely would vote against”. The article implies otherwise.
Anyone else sick of voting against the worse of 2 evils? Wouldn’t it be great if we COULD vote for “none of the above”? If neither candidate gets a majority, the runners up could run for a short campaign, with a vote on them in, like, 1 month.
Hey, I’m being sarcastic; I know it is a dumb idea. But I am beginning to wonder if it is any worse than what we have now.