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Wednesday, March 9, 2005 9:32 a.m. EST
Prez Poll: McCain Beats Hillary
If the 2008 presidential election were held today, Arizona Sen. John McCain would defeat his New York colleague, Hillary Clinton, by a whopping 12-point margin, according to the latest poll by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Fifty-four percent of voters said they'd back McCain, with 42 percent supporting the former first lady, the Marist survey found.
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851 registered voters were surveyed Feb. 14-16 on the McCain-Clinton match-up.
When matched against Mrs. Clinton, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani didn't do nearly as well, edging out the former first lady by just 2 points, 49 percent to 47 percent.
With the poll's 3.5-percent margin of error, that's a statistical tie, Marist said.
Ironically, Giuliani would have a better chance getting the GOP nod. The survey found that 25 percent of registered Republicans or Republican-leaning independents backed him, while 21 percent backed McCain.
Mrs. Clinton would defeat Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 51 percent to 43 percent.
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