A study in contrasts: Giuliani and Clinton
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Some new Pew research is out:
Sen. Hillary Clinton is by far the most popular presidential candidate among her own party's voters, but has among the lowest overall favorable ratings of the leading candidates. In sharp contrast, the front-running Republican candidate, Rudy Giuliani, evokes relatively modest enthusiasm from the GOP base, but is as broadly popular with all voters as any candidate in either party.
Well, of course, when we're down to just two -- and the way the primary-hopping is going, that could be any minute now -- does anyone really think any significant number of base Republicans are going to vote for anyone but Giuliani and base Democrats are going to vote for anyone but Clinton?
And by November of '08, both will have unfavorables in the stratosphere.
Meanwhile, Congress' approval ratings are lower than President Bush's, which must be easy to do since it's been doing it regardless of who's in Congress.
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