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To: tejek who wrote (338794)	5/28/2007 8:57:18 AM
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Voters would invite Giuliani, Obama to picnic: poll By Ellen Wulfhorst Fri May 25, 3:30 PM ET U.S. voters, if they could spend a Memorial Day picnic with any of the leading presidential choices for 2008, would pick Republican Rudolph Giuliani and Democrat Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), a poll released on Friday said. The former New York City mayor was picked by 37 percent, while the Democratic senator from Illinois was chosen by 33 percent of voters, according to the Quinnipiac University poll. Second among the Republican choices was Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), followed by former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, who has not formally entered the race. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was the fourth pick to join voters at a picnic on Monday's Memorial Day, a U.S. holiday commemorating Americans who have died in military service. Second among the Democratic choices was New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, followed by former Vice President Al Gore, who has said he has no plans to run for president, and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards. "Likability matters. Americans tend to want a president who is approachable," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "This is a way of getting at the notion of genuineness," he said. Brown added that he sees the results as a measure of Americans' curiosity about candidates they are less familiar with rather than as a measure of popularity. "It's an indication of curiosity," he said. In that vein, he said, Obama may hold more interest to voters in this poll than does Clinton, who has been in the public spotlight far longer. "Americans have made up their minds about Senator Clinton," Brown said. "Some like her a lot, some really don't like her a lot, whereas Senator Obama is someone who Americans are greatly curious about, I think." In a breakdown by political party affiliation, Giuliani was picked by 41 percent of Republicans, 31 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of independents. Obama was the choice of 37 percent of Republicans, 24 percent of Democrats and 34 percent of independent voters, it said. Quinnipiac polled 1,166 U.S. voters from April 25 to May 1, and the poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. The poll marked the first time Quinnipiac has asked such a question, Brown said.