Clinton, Giuliani lead in South

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Elon poll: Clinton, Giuliani lead in South
11/15/2007
By: Tim Boyum



A new Elon University poll has southerners picking two New Yorkers for president. The poll shows voters will pick Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani in the primary.

ELON -- A new Elon University poll has southerners picking two New Yorkers for president. Voters in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida picked Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani.

Typically the South votes for more conservative candidates in both parties. So is the region voting more liberal or is it too early to tell?

But in the latest Elon University poll of southern voters, Giuliani does lead Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney with more than 24 percent of the vote with the other candidates in the teens.

Hillary Clinton has a huge lead over Barack Obama, and John Edwards is in a distant third. Clinton has 45 percent of the vote compared to Obama with 17 percent and Edwards with just 11 percent in his home state.

On the Democratic side the poll clearly shows at this moment it's Hillary Clinton's race to lose in the South.



The Elon poll included telephone interviews with nearly 1,400 people. Nov. 4-8 and 12-14. It has a 2.7 percent margin of error.