Strategic Vision Iowa poll has 3-way tie for Dems, 2-way tie for GOP December 27, 2007
Posted by John in IowaCaucuses, Political.Tags: iowa caucuses, barack obama, hillary clinton, john edwards, mitt romney, mike huckabee, fred thompson, 2008 election, iowa, hillary rodham clinton, John McCain
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1. If the 2008 Republican presidential caucus were held today between Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson, for whom would you vote? (Republicans Only; Names Rotated)
Mike Huckabee 29%
Mitt Romney 27%
Fred Thompson 15%
John McCain 14% …5. If the 2008 Democratic presidential caucus were held today between, Joseph Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson, for whom would you vote? (Democrats Only; Names Rotated)
Barack Obama 30%
Hillary Clinton 29%
John Edwards 28% …
(Candidates in single digits not listed here. See also Strategic Vision Iowa poll results from one week earlier. Noteworthy: Huckabee’s lead has narrowed.)
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Happy Holidays to every citizen of Iowa! Please vote wisely in your primary election because what happens in the United States will affect the rest of us around the world!
Personally, I have read about and listened to all of your political leaders over the last few years and the one person that stands out above the rest is your Democrat: John Edwards. He is the one person who has taken least from the Oil corporations. Every other front running Presidential candidate has accepted larger political donations from the Oil corporations.
For a world seriously threatened by global warming and with fact based evidence piling up daily, I would choose the polician with the better ideas and with the most integrity. Thanks for reading!
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
The Huckabee record and rhetoric on illegal immigration is worse than most first suspected. As governor, Mr. Huckabee opposed a bill to require proof of citizenship to register to vote. The bill would have also required state agencies to turn in illegals. Mr. Huckabee fought that, as well as a bill to deny illegal aliens taxpayer-funded public benefits. He also backed issuing drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens.
Mr. Huckabee supported a partial amnesty as governor, in the form of in-state tuition for illegal aliens. He even tried to advantage illegals with scholarships.
He continues to support rewarding illegal aliens who claim to have entered the country as children with in-state tuition — which in effect is taxpayer-subsidized education. When Mr. Romney pressed him on this very subject at the recent CNN debate, Huckabee said, “we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did,” as if that were the end of the argument and no further discussion is necessary.
This brand of amnesty is akin to what happenned in the U.S. Senate this fall when the DREAM Act came up, giving foreign lawbreakers an economic benefit unavailable to legal but out-of-state Americans.
It also puts illegal aliens in the pool of college applicants. This means that for every illegal alien who lands an admissions slot, an American kid is prevented from going to college. Mr. Huckabee somehow rationalizes this perversity and calls it “compassionate.”
The Huckster even went to Mexico in 2003 to urge the Mexican government to open a consulate in Arkansas. He then leased the consulate state office space for $1 per year (this action obligated Arkansans taxpayers to subsidize the rest of the costs of nearly $600 a month). He also allowed Mexico to enjoy a permanent facility in Little Rock without having to pay rent for three years.
Huckabee characterized the bill requiring proof of citizenship for voting registration and state agencies to report suspected illegals as “un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life.” This is an obvious, inescapable implication that the bill’s sponsors and those who support it are all those things.
Conservative icon Rush Limaugh doesn’t like the Huckster and the Grand Lady of Conservatism, Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly, charges Mr. Huckabee with “destroy[ing] the conservative movement in Arkansas.” She says he “left the [Arkansas] Republican Party a shambles. Yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on George W. Bush as a ‘compassionate conservative’ are now trying to sell us on Mike Huckabee.”
Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle Forum and a key backer of his early runs for office, was once ‘his No. 1 fan.’ She was bitterly disappointed with his record. ‘He was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal,’ she says. ‘Just like Bill Clinton he will charm you, but don’t be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office.’
Jennifer Rubin at the National Review summarized his record on taxes while serving as governor in Arkansas.
By the end of his second term he had raised sales taxes 37 percent, fuel taxes 16 percent, and cigarettes taxes 103 percent, leading to a jump in total tax revenues from $3.9 billion to $6.8 billion. The Cato Institute gave him a failing grade of ‘F’ on its fiscal report card for 2006 and an only marginally better but still embarrassing ‘D’ for his entire term.”
Anybody who cares in the least about restoring the rule of law to immigration should pay attention to Rep. Tancredo and Mrs. Schlafly and say “Huck, no!” to Mike Huckabee.
Mitt Romney is the ONLY well, positioned Conservative GOP candidate to beat the Huckster now.
Go Mitt Go!
In this day and age, with close to a year before the real election, the business of a shake out to eliminate the lesser canidates can be a real pain for Iowan’s. Rest assured, Iowan’s will do their level best to try to pick their way through the crap, and eliminate only what they feel are people who don’t have a chance. The amount of money that is spent on this business of “Pick me!Pick me!” would shock you. The amount of phone callers I have hung up on also would shock you. The rest of the country asks “why Iowa?” and after being pummeled for over a year with all the ads, junk mail, door knockers, phone callers, media events, and all the rest, I would be happy to be rid of this “opportunity”. On the other hand, Iowan’s can be as smart or as dumb as the rest of the nation who think we are a bunch of hicks in bib-overalls and straw hats. We are at least thoughtful people here who will take all this crap with the least amount of killings and thumpings of people who constantly are invading ourt privacy. To those outside of Iowa all this attention looks really great and makes others want to push the importance of our caucus out of first place so they can have all this attention. As the Chinese proverb says, “Be careful of what you wish for, you may get it!” The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and to be perfectly honest, it will be the first day of Spring the morning after January 3, the phone won’t ring with unknown people on the other end, the door won’t be knocked on by the limitless numbers of campaign hands, there will be peace and quite like normal.I am looking forward to that time as are most Iowan’s.
According to the AJC, Senator Obama looks like the strongest candidate to face Republicans in November -
http://acropolisreview.com/2007/11/republican-congressional-delegation-on.html