Just to engage in the usual fruitless search for coherence here, we have the sequence
BV: Not to mention that polls give Gore only 45% against either of the two Rep frontrunners.
CH: Who would those frontrunners be, and where can this poll be read? When did it occur?
BV: There have been several polls that show both Bush and Pataki beating Gore easily
me to CH: Pataki? Republican front runner? That's a new one. What would Giuliani say about that?
BV: Not the front runner, just good enough to beat Gore.
I give up Bill, is Pataki one of the Republican front runners or not? Pataki is popular enough in NY, as far as I know, but I don't think that he has much of a national following. I'll check out the NYT when the site's responding again. Aside from which, as a northeast "moderate" Republican, I imagine he'd have a problem with the red meat crowd.
Ok, here's one article from the NYT mentioning Pataki's chances, such as they may be. They rate him ahead of Guiliani, anyway.
Still, great skepticism remains among Republicans that either New Yorker, but Giuliani in particular, could win significant support among conservative primary voters.
Realistically, several Republicans said, their best hope is that they would be considered in 2000 as Vice-Presidential prospects by a more conservative Presidential nominee from another region of the country. ( NYT, July 25, 1998 search.nytimes.com , but that's a search link, probably not reliable) |
