Question:
Sure, it seems too early to be talking (or even thinking) about the 2008 elections, but there's only 1,448 days until Election Day 2008, and they may very well go by in a snap. Gallup recently conducted two polls, one for the Democrats and one for the Republicans, as to who within their party they were looking to back in '08. Both polls were conducted in an open-ended question form, where those being polled could say any name they wanted. I thought I'd bring a version of those poll to YN.

Here are the Republicans who received at least 1%, in order of most popular to least: John McCain: 10%; Rudy Guiliani: 10%; Colin Powell: 7%; Jeb Bush: 3%; Condoleeza Rice: 2%; Bill FristL 2%; Arnold Schwarzenegger: 2%.

Other candidates got a combined 12%, and 52% gave no opinion at this early date. Other names that have been circulating around the news but did not get mentioned by 1% of the people include George Allen, Rick Santorum, Chuck Hagel, Mitt Romney, and George Pataki. Jeb Bush has vowed not to run and Arnold can't run, so I'll leave their names off this poll of the top four candidates.

On a final note, if you're a Democrat voting on this poll, please vote for which of the candidates you think would honestly make the best President rather than which you think the Dems could most easily defeat.

Choices:
John McCain
Rudy Guiliani
Colin Powell
Condoleeza Rice
I've Got My Eye On Another Republican

 

i think that the democrats are going to run either John Kerry or Hilary Clinton in 2008 and even though i am a strong Bush supporter and totally against Kerry and Clinton...I believe that the republicans are going to have a hard time finding a candidate that can beat either of these two...especially Kerry I don't know if we can pull that one off again....but I would have to say our best bet would be either McCain or Guiliani....

teh republicans are in dweep trouble. they have no feasible candidate for '08. AThey have got absolutley nothing. Save for Condi. always liked her.

McCain or Powell