McCain's Campaign Pours Water On Giuliani's Electability Argument

Or tries to, anyway.

From: Rick Davis Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:24 AM To: @ALL Subject: Good Polling News

As I mentioned in this morning's staff meeting, Fox News released a survey last night that shows what you and I have known for a long time - John McCain is the Republican candidate best positioned to beat Hillary Clinton. As we all saw on the Fox News ticker, "GOOD NEWS FOR MCCAIN ... FOX NEWS POLL SHOWS THE AZ SENATOR DOING BEST AMONG GOP CANDIDATES WHEN MATCHED UP AGAINST SEN HILLARY CLINTON."

In a matchup against Hillary Clinton, John McCain is the only Republican candidate neck and neck with Senator Clinton and within the poll's margin of error of +/-3 percentage points. Rudy Giuliani trails Hillary Clinton by four points; both Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson would lose to her by twelve points. General election matchups, according to the October 9-10 Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll....

This poll confirms the Rasmussen poll, released on Monday showing John McCain only one point behind Hillary Clinton, compared to Rudy Giuliani who would lose to Hillary Clinton by 7 points.

In addition to the general election matchups, the Fox poll also shows Hillary Clinton easily beating Rudy Giuliani if a conservative third candidate enters the general election race, as Rev. James Dobson has threatened and as many other conservatives have suggested will happen. With a "Christian conservative third party candidate" in the race, Hillary Clinton beats Rudy Giuliani by ten points, 44% to 34% for Giuliani with 14% for the third party candidate.

What do these polls mean? They mean that John McCain's experienced leadership, courageous service and the bold solutions he is proposing on the campaign trail are resonating with the American people. They also mean that our party can nominate a candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton without compromising the bedrock principles and values that are our party's foundation. Republican primary voters are figuring out that supporting a candidate who is not prepared to be Commander in Chief from day one, or one who is out of step with our party's core values, is a recipe for another Clinton Administration.

Today, we need to spread the important news of these two recent polls and ask our grassroots and finance supporters to do the same. With the Iowa caucuses now set for January 3, 2008 and the New Hampshire primary date still up in the air, we are less than 80 days from the first votes being cast. Let's keep up the good work!

Thanks,

Rick

Comments

McCain's DoubleTalk Express has already fallen off the cliff. McCain is very old, is a war-monger and has anger management problem to be a president.

Posted by mitt | October 18, 2007 12:04 PM

So...Mitt...it's not Romney is it? :-) So that's your strategy.

How anyone can call an honorable former POW a war-monger is beyond me?! Regardless of your views on Iraq, whether you agree with him or not, he deserves more respect for all he has done for you, me and our country. Come with some intelligable debate and some real issues to this column rather than some derrogatory names, and then we'll talk.

Frankly, I find "pullling out of Iraq" at this point without a plan to be far more detrimental to our future security than a candidate with a plan and course of action. We are already in Iraq. We must face our current situation. We can't just run and hide and expect it all to go away. Unfortunately, Americans as a whole are so blinded by immediate gratification regardless of long term impact, they are having difficulty coming to this same consensus.

Independants are coming to the forefront which is showing in these polls to support John McCain's message. And I hope more see the results he is producing....specifically "who can stand up to Hillary when matched head to head". I'm not here to debate hard-core Democrats.....for those out there that don't agree with Hillary's plans then it is best to start truly getting behind those candidates that can be diplomats and LEADERS (not flip-floppers) and bring both sides together....with a TRUE chance of winning this election.

This news above is promising!! Glad to see it.

More polls that show the same results and an interesting website to look at for head-to-heads in the General Election: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html

Posted by Louisa | October 18, 2007 3:04 PM

Gang of 14.
McCain-Feingold.

There's only one current Republican Party candidate for President who I absolutely, positively, would NOT vote for under any circumstances. Not in the primary, and not in the general election.

That candidate is John McCain.

John McCain is a member of the "Government" Party, not the Republican Party. He can have a great night at debates. He can come up with great zingers. He can have his campaign come up with great polls.

None of that matters. When John McCain put together the Gang of 14 he guaranteed that I would never vote for him. He had to choose between supporting the Republican Party, vs. supporting the petty powers of individual Senators. He decided to go with the Senators. So he can go to hell.

Posted by Greg | October 22, 2007 8:32 PM

It would seem republicans are not smart enough to see the value of McCain.

John McCain and Ron Paul are the only principled, truthful GOP candidates running for President. It is too bad that both of them are wrong on almost every issue of importance.

If the type of "good polling news" argued above were the basis for selecting a primary winner, John Edwards would win the Democratic nomination for the same reasons -- he polls very well in general election surveys.

But that won't happen either!

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