None of the Democrat candidates can claim that level of service.

But they will.

And I do agree with Alex and those who raise the question of how Rudy's trend lines will go. Obama may well continue to lost support amongst Republicans, as his liberalism becomes more apparant, but I suspect he will maintain himself well amongst independents, and may actually improve amongst Democrats.

Rudy however, still has some room to fall within his own pary, I suspect, and has lots of baggage that can be explored and lower his standing across the board.

And his advantage is that the GOP base just doesn't seem to have anyone they want to get behind, so he is ahead by default.

I do thinik the more his personal life, and some of his more socially liberal views come to the forefront, that it will get tougher-but he benefits from there not being a super strong GOP candidate that people want to support.

None of the Democrat candidates can claim that level of service.

+71 among democrats, -71 among republicans (-9 among independents, the only democrat with a net negative among independents).

Rudy is a little different in that he has high positives on the GOP side (+64) and relatively low negatives on the democratic side (-9) and good positives among independents (+25).

On the democratic side, the more that is known about the person, the poorer their scores among republicans and independents, though among democrats the opposite is true. We know more about Hillary, then Gore, then Edwards and least about Obama.

Among the republicans, there is no such easily perceived correlation.

One other point, remember the 11th commandment. Unless you find the GOP candidate worse than all the democratic candidates, you should hesitate to speak ill of the GOP candidate (assuming you support the GOP in general). We shouldn't let the inter-party tussle in the primaries be used to weaken the candidate in the general election. I generally associate ill speakers at this stage to either be not very thoughtful, have very narrow perspective or to be pulling for the other party.

Guiliani's numbers are also treading downward, as Joyner posted last month.

I am optimistic about Romney's numbers. As has been said about him, the more people get to know him, the more they'll like him. 47% still have yet to hear of him.

I think that both of those would be errors on the part of their respective parties but I guess that's what political parties are for.