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DEL.ICIO.USClinton and Thompson settle into their Georgia leads
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
According to a new survey by Strategic Vision, a Republican-oriented firm in Atlanta, Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson are running parallel presidential races in Georgia.
By the numbers, this is a three-day poll of 800 likely Georgia voters, with an overall margin of error of 3 percentage points. But 368 and 328 Democrats were asked their presidential preferences separately, which means the margin of error skyrockets just where it gets most interesting.
So read with caution.
Among Republican candidates, the field remains largely unchanged, according to the SV poll.
Fred Thompson led with 39 percent, followed by: Rudy Giuliani, 20 percent; John McCain, 9 percent; Mike Huckabee, 7 percent; Mitt Romney, 6 percent; Ron Paul, 3 percent; Tom Tancredo, 2 percent; and Duncan Hunter, 1 percent.
Undecided came in a heavy third, with 13 percent.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton widens her summertime lead to 40 percent, followed by Barack Obama with 27 percent. That’s an improvement for Clinton since June, but it’s still tighter than what the New York senator has built nationwide.
A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll out today shows Clinton leading Obama 48 to 17 percent.
Among the rest of the Democratic field in Georgia, John Edwards was at 11 percent; Bill Richardson, 5 percent; Joe Biden, 3 percent; Chris Dodd, 1 percent; and Dennis Kucinich, 1 percent.
And 12 percent can’t make up their minds.
For politicians, the most frightening aspect of the SV survey could be the whether voters favor a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in the next six months. Forty-three percent said yes. But 43 percent also said no. And 14 were undecided.
Strategic Vision also did individual horse-races in the ’08 race for U.S. Senate. Republican incumbent beats all four Democrats (for the first time including Josh Lanier of Statesboro) by similar margins of roughly 58 percent to 26 percent. You can read the details on the jump.
Poll Results
- Do you approve or disapprove of Governor Sonny Perdue’s overall job performance?
Approve - 57%
Disapprove - 32%
Undecided - 11%
- Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Saxby Chambliss’ overall job performance?
Approve - 52%
Disapprove - 36%
Undecided - 12%
- Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Johnny Isakson’s overall job performance?
Approve - 57%
Disapprove - 33%
Undecided - 10%
- If the election for United States Senate were held today, whom would you vote for Saxby Chambliss, the Republican or Vernon Jones, the Democrat?
Saxby Chambliss - 57%
Vernon Jones - 28%
Undecided - 15%
- If the election for United States Senate were held today, whom would you vote for Saxby Chambliss, the Republican or Dale Cardwell, the Democrat?
Saxby Chambliss - 58%
Dale Cardwell - 26%
Undecided - 16%
- If the election for United States Senate were held today, whom would you vote for Saxby Chambliss, the Republican or Rand Knight, the Democrat?
Saxby Chambliss - 58%
Rand Knight - 25%
Undecided - 17%
- If the election for United States Senate were held today, whom would you vote for Saxby Chambliss, the Republican or Josh Lanier the Democrat?
Saxby Chambliss - 58%
Josh Lanier - 24%
Undecided - 18%
- Do you approve or disapprove of President Bush’s overall job performance?
Approve - 36%
Disapprove - 49%
Undecided - 15%
- Do you approve or disapprove of President Bush’s handling of the economy?
Approve - 40%
Disapprove - 43%
Undecided - 17%
- Do you approve or disapprove of President Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq?
Approve - 35%
Disapprove - 49%
Undecided - 16%
- Do you approve or disapprove of President Bush’s handling of the war on terrorism?
Approve - 52%
Disapprove - 39%
Undecided - 9%
- Do you favor an immediate withdrawal of the United States military forces from Iraq, within the six months?
Yes - 43%
No - 43%
Undecided - 14%
- Do you view President Bush as a conservative in the mode of Ronald Reagan? (Republicans Only)
Yes - 9%
No - 79%
Undecided - 12%
- Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is performing its job?
Approve - 18%
Disapprove - 71%
Undecided - 11%
- Do you think Georgia is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?
Right - 51%
Wrong - 35%
Undecided - 14%
- For the 2008 Republican Presidential Nomination whom would you support? (Republicans Only)
Fred Thompson - 39%
Rudy Giuliani - 20%
John McCain - 9%
Mike Huckabee - 7%
Mitt Romney - 6%
Ron Paul - 3%
Tom Tancredo - 2%
Duncan Hunter - 1%
Undecided - 13%
- How important is it for the Republican presidential candidate to be a conservative Republican in the mode of Ronald Reagan, very important, somewhat important, not very important, not important, or undecided? (Republicans Only)
Very Important - 55%
Somewhat Important - 25%
Not Very Important - 6%
Not Important - 10%
Undecided - 4%
- For the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination whom would you support? (Democrats Only)
Hillary Clinton - 40%
Barack Obama - 27%
John Edwards - 11%
Bill Richardson - 5%
Joseph Biden - 3%
Chris Dodd - 1%
Dennis Kucinich - 1%
Undecided - 12%
- When making your selection for a presidential candidate, what are you looking for most in the candidate, charisma, experience, or ideology? (Democrats Only)
Experience - 37%
Ideology - 29%
Charisma - 24%
Undecided - 10%
Strategic Vision, LLC is an Atlanta-headquartered public relations and public affairs agency. Results are based on telephone interviews with 800 likely voters in Georgia, aged 18+, and conducted October 19-21, 2007. The margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. Additional information on Strategic Vision, LLC may be obtained at www.strategicvision.biz.
Comments
By Will Jones
October 24, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this
Take it all with a grain of salt…not that the rigged Diebold machines could ever be trusted either. No bios on the principals of “Strategic Vision,” but the family name of one is “Ward.” Never met a Ward not Roman Catholic…like Buckley, Booth, Keating, and Carroll: the key clans, other than the Mafia names with which we are more familiar, of Rome’s American Fifth Column…along with Bush, Nixon, Cheney, DuPont and Rockefeller, serving them. Rig voting machines, rig polls…same diff.
By bud
October 24, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this
Those Diebold machines are indeed rugged. Very rugged. That’s the same company that makes the ATM machines. And if banks use them you know they’re tough.
Probably a good company to buy stock in as all the states will be moving to these rugged voting machines.
By alma carter
October 24, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this
It is a shame that bigotry like Will Jones or is that Matt. T? still exists
By Bitter EX democrackkk
October 24, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this
HOW can ANYONE take Ferd the DUD seriously???
He is SOoooWAYyyy NONqualified!!!
By Will Jones
October 24, 2007 1:24 PM | Link to this
T’aint bigotry ma’am…just facts you wish weren’t told or don’t want to know…completely faithful to G_d and to America’s Whig Founders. You got a problem with that? You got a real problem “alma carter.” Or, is that Mary Sullivan, or Maria Hernandes, or Betty Nguyen, or Marcello Cabrone? Fifth Column is Fifth Column. There’s no American named “Alma Carter” who doesn’t know, at some level, that what I’m saying, what her grandfathers taught her, is anything but the truth…but “nice try.”
By shelbinator
October 24, 2007 2:33 PM | Link to this
Will Jones, how the heck do I get into this Fifth Column thing, anyway, you moonbat wingnut klansman? I’ve been Catholic for 33 years and all I ever get out of it is guilt. If we’re secretly running this country or something I want in on it.
By Will Jones
October 24, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
shelbinator…tell all of us watching Hitler’s banker’s homosexual grandson, whose father killed JFK to keep us in Rome’s Vietnam, get away with 9/11 and flood Our Country with illegal immigrants to take our jobs and to prop up the pedophile priesthood of Babylon, just how much smarter you are than America’s Founders:
America’s Founder Thomas Jefferson To Samuel Kercheval Monticello, January 19, 1810
SIR, -- Yours of the 7th instant has been duly received, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. Nothing can be more exactly and seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandising their oppressors in Church and State; that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real **Anti-Christ**.John Adams Diary [making the case for revolution] 1771. FEBY. 12.
At a Time, when the Barriers against Popery, erected by our Ancestors, are suffered to be destroyed, to the hazard even of the Protestant Religion
By Clem
October 24, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this
Let’s have a meeting for everyone wanting to join the Fifth Column.
Willie J can tell us about the time he neglected to guard the ammo dump. We can raz him about being a closet Rudy supporter and that his real allegiance is to the Vatican.
Let’s have it at a Waffle House or maybe a Cracker Barrel. I’ve got a hankerin’ for some country fried steak.
By Will Jones
October 24, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this
Sockpuppets! What fakes are Rome’s supporters. Genuine traitors.
By GeorgiaValues
October 24, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this
Saxby up by 30 points over all comers! That’s impressive!
By Will Jones
October 25, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this
Rubber stamp to a draft-dodging, 9-11-committing, closet-queen is “Georgia Values?”
Your scam is done.
Death for Treason.