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Bradley in DC
11-01-2007, 06:27 AM
(main rationale for Rudy evaporates)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6644.html

Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds

By: David Paul Kuhn
Oct 31, 2007 04:40 PM EST
Updated: October 31, 2007 08:27 PM EST

Republican popularity at its lowest level in a generation, huge study by Pew reveals.
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One year before voters go to the polls to select the next president, the Republican Party is as weak as it has been in a generation, a detailed new poll suggests.

In a hypothetical match-up between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, bloc after bloc of traditionally Republican voters break for Clinton:

She wins the South.

She polls evenly with voters who attend church at least once a week.

She splits families with a household income above $100,000.

She loses rural voters and men — but only by a narrow margin.

All are constituencies Republicans have dominated for decades; George W. Bush won each by double-digit margins.

The findings from The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press remain preliminary, considering even the primaries are still two months off...