POLLS: Voters looking for Clinton alternatives

Phoenix, AZArizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen said new survey research information coming out around the country indicated voters were looking for alternatives to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Pullen said the trend was a sign that "Americans are looking for fresh ideas and hope, not secrecy, corruption and a return to the Clinton-years of scandal." New research from the Mason-Dixon company found several Republican candidates defeating New York's junior senator in Florida. Among likely general election voters, 51-percent responded there were no circumstances under which they would vote for Mrs. Clinton. Fully 57-percent of respondents said they would consider voting for Mayor Giuliani, followed by 55-percent who said they would consider voting for US Senator John McCain. In head-to-head match-ups, Giuliani, Governor Romney and former Senator Fred Thompson were tested against Clinton, but all three carried the state. "We're seeing a dual-effect not only in Florida but across the nation," said Pullen. "Voters are rejecting Hillary Rodham Clinton's negativity, her secrecy and her double standards and at the same time, voters are looking for real solutions are finding genuine leadership coming from our Republican candidates." In Iowa, the Democrat Party's nomination process has become increasingly negative as Illinois junior senator Barack Obama has taken the lead in the first-in-the-nation caucuses. According to the latest ABC News poll just released from Iowa, Mr. Obama now leads with 30-percent of the vote to Mrs. Clinton's 26-percent, with another 22-percent favoring former North Carolina U.S. Senator John Edwards, who ran in 2004 as John Kerry's vice presidential nominee. "According to the reports, Mrs. Clinton is collapsing because voters simply don't trust her," Pullen said. "They see her opponents as more honest, and perhaps voters are coming to realize that the sort of experience Mrs. Clinton brags about isn't the sort of experience we are looking for in the White House. "The simple fact is that honesty and integrity go a long way in America, but for Hillary Rodham Clinton they've been long gone for a long time," he said. "The 2008 elections are about competence, about real ideas, about serious solutions to serious problems. Too much is at stake to trust our nation's future to someone whose opinion can be bought with an opinion poll or a Hollywood fundraiser."