Election 2008: Giuliani (R) 46% Obama (D) 43%

Election 2008: Giuliani (R) 46% Obama (D) 43%

rasmussenreports.com Wed Apr 25, 10:38 AM ET

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) clinging to a narrow lead over Illinois Senator Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) (D) in an early 2008 Presidential trial heat. Obama, however, enjoys a ten-point lead over former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson (R).

Giuliani, the GOP frontrunner, leads Obama 46% to 43%. A month ago, Giuliani led the Illinois Senator by just a single point. Back-to-back months in toss-up status represents a significant improvement for Obama--in December he trailed Giuliani by 11.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20070425/pl_rasmussen/giulianiobama20070425_1

Captain Mark

Christians for Rudy Giuliani

Scott Olin Schmidt
West Hollywood

When I tell my liberal friends and associates that there are only a handful of Republicans that I would vote for before Hillary Clinton, the response is universally the same. I get a blank stare, followed by the question: "Do you really think Rudy Giuliani can win the Republican nomination?"

If you've read about my infatuation with the Giuliani candidacy, you know my answer is YES. While Democrats like to fall in love with a candidate - Howard Dean or Senator Barack Obama, for example - we Republicans prefer picking winners.

While most Republicans would rather support a candidate who opposed abortion rights and supported the Second Amendment, they also realize that, even after seven years of George W. Bush's religious-right mobilization efforts, Americans would be hard pressed to elect such a person. With notable exceptions, like the 2002 California governor's race, Republicans recognize that they, like the Democrats, are a minority party. So, yes, the Religious Right will vote for Rudy Giuliani just as it voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger in California in 2003 and again in 2006.

Why? Republicans don't like being losers. Being losers is why people become Democrats.

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http://www.spot-on.com/archives/schmidt/2007/04/christians_for_rudy_giuliani.html

Captain Mark

Rolly Broadside sinks the Black Pearl

Rolly Broadside sinks the Black Pearl

http://blogs.sltrib.com/politics/2007/04/how-about-plank-walk.htm

http://blogs.sltrib.com/politics/2007/04/short-lived-idea.htm

I guess we can’t have fun anymore without worrying about the political correctness police.

The private screening of the new “Disney” Pirates of the Caribbean combined with a fund raiser for Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has been sunk. The idea for the event was all mine and Mark S. had agreed to participate as Pirate Black-Mark Shurtleff. For those who have been on the Disney ride, there is a wench auction taking place when the pirates have taken the town. A beautiful redhead is on display, but the auctioneer is selling very ugly wenches, with calls for “we want the redhead” from the pirate crowd.

I had planned on duplicating this event by having Legislative leadership and other prominent elected officials dress up as the ugly wenches with the help of their spouses. The auction winner would have had the privilege (or not) of dumping a bucket of seawater on the wench (Legislator).

The Attorney General was not aware of the details, as I had hoped this would be a big surprise for him and the crowd. Well this all backfired when Salt Lake Tribune reporter Paul Rolly caught wind of the event, and focused on the “Wench Auction”. This drew unwanted and uncalled for negative attention to the Attorney General who was just being a good sport.

I grew up in Seattle and loved watching parades. There is an institution in Seattle since 1949 called the SeaFair Pirates http://www.seafairpirates.org/ I had hoped that maybe we could start an organization here in Utah that would be fun and raise money for charity just like in Seattle. But it appears that just dressing up as a Pirate and having some fun is politically incorrect “within the party of Jan Graham, Karen Shepherd, Patricia Jones and Patrice Arent, there would be hell to pay” according to Paul Rolly.

Have we as a society come to the point where we can’t have fun anymore? How sad, and I think Paul Rolly owes the Attorney General an apology for not getting the entire story first hand.

I apologize to Mark Shurtleff for any negative attention that my actions have brought upon him personally and his respected office of Attorney General.


Mark E. Towner,
Publisher of “The Political Spyglass”