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Poll: Dodd At 5% In Home State Primary
A new Quinnipiac poll has some bad news for Chris Dodd: He's polling at 5% in the Democratic primary for his home state of Connecticut.
Hillary Clinton leads with 45%, with Barack Obama in second place at 19%. John Edwards has 7%, statistically tied with Dodd's 5%.
Rudy Giuliani dominates the Republican field here with 41%, followed way behind by Mitt Romney at 13% and John McCain with 12%.
The general election numbers, available after the jump, also show that Rudy might be able to make this normally blue state competitive.
Clinton (D) 45%, Giuliani (R) 44%
Obama (D) 43%, Giuliani (R) 43%
Giuliani 46%, Edwards (D) 41%
Clinton (D) 47%, McCain (R) 41%
Clinton (D) 53%, Thompson (R) 31%
Clinton (D) 51%, Romney (R) 34%
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But how's he doing among the vast membership of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party?
November 8, 2007 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Silly willy nilly ol' bears . . . Connecticut is for Lieberman.
November 8, 2007 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
This poll evidences why these polls at this point are pretty meaningless and are based solely on name recognition. Connecticut for Mr. 9/11 are you kidding me???? Once the voters of connecticut realize that Mr. 9/11 is trying to act like the king on steroids and will appoint "strict constructionist" (code word for religious wackos as anti-abortion and code word for the super rich and corporate america as judges that will screw the individual and ignore the constitution)judges, Mr. 9/11 will be lucky to get 20% of the vote in the general election.
November 8, 2007 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gosh, NCSteve, Richard L. Adlof, and Mich all post on the same thread without one single gratuitous swipe at the Democratic front-runner!
I'm leaving. My work here is done.
November 8, 2007 11:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Name-recognition, ey? That would overwhelmingly favor Dodd, would it not? And yet he is even trailing that former Senator from the South! If "name-recognition" is still a problem for anyone this "late" in the game, it will always remain a problem...
And why wouldn't Rudy compete in CT or NJ or NY? He's been a fixture of this Tri-State region's politics for over three decades! Folks in CT and NJ, unfortnately, do not know him like the Rudy G who we New Yorkers have come know and despise...
November 8, 2007 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
The basic reason the primary poll isn't strongly predictive is that Connecticut doesn't vote until February 5, and it is highly likely the results in the earlier states will affect the results. For example, does anyone believe if Dodd pulled a Kerry and won in Iowa and NH,he would then only get 5% in Connecticut?
November 8, 2007 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
If CT voters are clueless enough to vote for Lieberbush they are just ignorant enough to vote for Guiliani.
November 8, 2007 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
General election poll numbers a year in advance don't show much of anything!
November 8, 2007 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink