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Poll: New Yorkers Prefer Hillary Clinton Over Rudy Giuliani

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New York Democrats and Republicans have clear hometown favorites - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani - for their parties' 2008 presidential nominations, a statewide poll reported.

But when it comes to a possible 2008 political subway series between the two, New Yorkers give the nod, 50 percent to 40 percent, to Democrat Clinton over the former New York City mayor, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey reported.

"New Yorkers remember [former House Speaker] Tip O'Neill's line that all politics is local and pick a native son and a not-so-native daughter as their favorites for the 2008 presidential prom," said Maurice Carroll, director of the polling institute. "After that, New Yorkers remember that their state is blue."

Clinton and Giuliani were expected to face each other in 2000 when she first ran for the Senate in her adopted home of New York. But the mayor withdrew from the race to deal with prostate cancer and a failing marriage. Clinton defeated then-Rep. Rick Lazio and won easy re-election last year.

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  In the poll, Clinton was the choice of 47 percent of Democratic voters, followed by Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois at 16 percent, former Vice President Al Gore at 11 percent and former Sen. John Edwards at 7 percent. Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential race, has said he has no plans to run again.

Fifty-one percent of New York's Republican voters favored Giuliani for the GOP nomination, according to the poll, followed by Sen. John McCain of Arizona at 17 percent. No other Republican contender broke into double digits.

Quinnipiac's telephone poll of 1,049 New York registered voters was conducted Feb. 6-11 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

© 2007 Associated Press.

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