Albany (USA): Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton could have trouble carrying her own state if she runs for President in 2008.
As Republicans would nominate either former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani or Senator John McCain of Arizona, a poll of New York voters reported.
Lee Miringoff of Marist College's Institute for public opinion said the state-wide poll, conducted on Tuesday in conjunction with New York City's WNBC-TV, is bad news for the former first lady.
Apparently there exists certain concerns among some Democrats about her electability.
In a theoretical match-up for the 2008 presidential race, the WNBC/ Marist poll found Giuliani favoured by 50 per cent of New York voters to 46 per cent for Hilary Clinton.
Against McCain, the poll had Clinton at 48 per cent and McCain at 45 per cent.
"The question that often centres around is, can she be elected, can she carry a red state?" said the Marist pollster.
"The numbers suggest that even right here in her own backyard the bluest of the blue Rudy Giuliani and Senator John McCain could give her a run for her money."
In New York, there are five million Democrats and three million Republicans, and the state has not been carried by a Republican presidential contender since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.
Clinton did better at 58 per cent to 36 per cent against Governor George Pataki.
Marist's telephone poll of 735 registered voters was conducted between May 1-7 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 per cent points.
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