Quinnipiac issued a new poll today on the 2008 race.Â The basic numbers (for New York):
- Hillary Clinton vs. Rudy Giuliani: 50-42
- Clinton vs. John McCain: 55-34
- Other notes: Guiliani and Barack Obama tie, John Edwards beats Giuliani, Obama beats McCain, and Pataki just manages a big enough blip for the radar.
In the primaries:
DemocratsÂ (above 5 percent)
- Â Â Clinton, 44%
- Â Â Al Gore, 14%
- Â Â Obama, 14%
- Â Â Â Edwards, 9%
- Giuliani 52%
- McCain 13%
- George Pataki 6%
This was pretty much the landscape a while back, although Gore gained on Obama and Newt Gingrich fell off the map.
The full poll is here.
Speaking of Gingrich, he’s apologizing for his remarks about non-English being “the language of living in a ghetto.” He saysÂ he was not attacking the Spanish language:Â ”I made some comments that I recognize caused a bad feeling within the Latino community. My word choice was poor but my point was simply this: In the United States it is important to speak the English language well in order to advance and have success…I have never believed that Spanish is a language of people of low incomes, nor a language without beauty.”