{"id":47,"date":"2007-10-08T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T10:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/10\/third-party-threat-against-giu.html"},"modified":"2007-10-08T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T10:24:32","slug":"third-party-threat-against-giu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/10\/third-party-threat-against-giu.html","title":{"rendered":"Third Party Threat Against Giuliani Gets Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since top-tier Christian Right leaders floated a plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/10\/dobson-co-mull-3rdparty-candid.html\">coalesce behind a third party candidate<\/a> in the event that socially liberal Rudy Giuliani is the GOP nominee, God-o-Meter has been wondering: with all the talk of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/226\/story\/20062.html\">declining influence of graying Christian Right titans<\/a> like James Dobson, how much teeth does that threat really have? Will in-the-pews evangelicals and other conservative rank-and-file Christians follow the decrees of the political activists who purport to speak for them? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/27_of_republicans_would_vote_for_pro_life_third_party_instead_of_giuliani\">new Rasumussen poll<\/a> suggests that many would.<br \/>\nThe poll found that 27-percent of GOP voters say they&#8217;d support a third party candidate over Giuliani if the that candidate is backed by &#8220;Christian conservative leaders.&#8221; That would seem a death blow for Giuliani in the general election match-up, when, according to the poll, Hillary Clinton would take 46-percent of the vote, Giuliani would get 30-percent, and the third-party option would pick up 14-percent.<br \/>\nRasumussen warns that early polls tend to exaggerate the eventual popularity of third party candidates. Still, in a close national election&#8211;and God-o-Meter realizes we haven&#8217;t seen one of those since 2004 and, before that, 2000&#8211;even a much smaller defection of pro-life voters could make it a lot easier for Clinton, or any other Democrat, to cruise to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since top-tier Christian Right leaders floated a plan to coalesce behind a third party candidate in the event that socially liberal Rudy Giuliani is the GOP nominee, God-o-Meter has been wondering: with all the talk of the declining influence of graying Christian Right titans like James Dobson, how much teeth does that threat really&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rudy-giuliani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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