{"id":12436,"date":"2007-08-04T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12436.html"},"modified":"2007-08-04T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T18:30:04","slug":"republicans-still-dont-realize-giuliani-is-pro-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/republicans-still-dont-realize-giuliani-is-pro-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans still don&#8217;t realize Giuliani is pro-choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Gallup conducted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galluppoll.com\/content\/?ci=28162\">national poll<\/a> and found that three out of four Republicans (74%) believe Rudy Giuliani would make an &#8220;acceptable&#8221; GOP presidential nominee. None of the other Republican hopefuls came close.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional wisdom suggested that these results, mirrored in other polls, spoke to a key development in Republican politics. Despite Giuliani&#8217;s support for abortion rights and gay rights as mayor, the GOP faithful apparently no longer consider his social positions a disqualifier in a presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>But the conventional wisdom didn&#8217;t consider one nagging detail: most Republicans don&#8217;t know Giuliani&#8217;s positions on the hot-button, culture-war issues that have driven GOP politics for a generation.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Election Central Saturday Roundup, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/electioncentral.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/electioncentral\/2007\/aug\/04\/election_central_saturday_roundup\">noted<\/a> this new <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/display.php3?PageID=1174\">poll<\/a> from the Pew Research Center. As Eric Kleefeld explained, &#8220;When Republicans and GOP-leaners are asked if they can name the Republican presidential candidate who is pro-choice, only 41% could correct name Rudy Giuliani. Among self-described conservatives, the answer wasn&#8217;t much better at a mere 47% correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is similar to results of a Pew Research poll <a href=\"http:\/\/electioncentral.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/electioncentral\/2007\/jun\/05\/poll_less_than_half_of_gopers_know_rudy_is_pro_choice\">from June<\/a>, when fewer than half of Republicans realized that Giuliani is pro-choice.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen any data on the subject, but I&#8217;d guess that an even higher percentage of the GOP probably doesn\u2019t know that Giuliani supported gay rights and has a record as a thrice-married <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2006\/0607.benen.html\">adulterer<\/a>, either.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Republicans care about this, maybe not. But for every poll that shows the former NYC mayor as the frontrunner, the political world should pause a moment to consider just how many of his supporters appreciate these details &#8212; and how many are likely to hear about them from Giuliani&#8217;s GOP rivals before voters head to the polls next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Gallup conducted a national poll and found that three out of four Republicans (74%) believe Rudy Giuliani would make an &#8220;acceptable&#8221; GOP presidential nominee. None of the other Republican hopefuls came close. The conventional wisdom suggested that these results, mirrored in other polls, spoke to a key development in Republican politics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}