(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Rudy Giuliani is the top presidential contender for Republican Party supporters in the United States, according to a poll by YouGov/Polimetrix published in The Economist. 28 per cent of respondents would vote for the former New York City mayor in a 2008 primary.

Actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson is second with 21 per cent, followed by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with 14 per cent, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee with 12 per cent, and Arizona senator John McCain with 11 per cent.

On Oct. 30, Huckabee expressed his opposition to abortion, saying, "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our work force had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."

In American elections, candidates require 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the White House. In November 2004, Republican George W. Bush earned a second term after securing 286 electoral votes from 31 states. Democratic nominee John Kerry received 252 electoral votes from 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Bush is ineligible for a third term in office. The next presidential election is scheduled for November 2008.

Polling Data

Who do you intend to vote for?
(Likely Republican Primary Voters)

Source: YouGov/Polimetrix / The Economist
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,500 American adults, conducted from Oct. 22 to Oct. 30, 2007. No margin of error was provided.

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