In the spirit of the season, a new poll out today finds that Americans would most like to spend Thanksgiving with either Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or Rudy Giuliani.

What does this mean for the presidential race? Absolutely nothing. It is only an indication of overall name recognition, but it is still fun to report anyway.

Clinton tops the list with 27 percent, in the latest Quinnipiac Poll with 24 percent saying they would rather share their holiday meal with Obama (John Edwards gets 13 percent).

Closely behind, Rudy Giuliani is on the guest list for 22 percent of voters, followed John McCain (17 percent), Fred Thompson (14 percent) and Mitt Romney with 7 percent.

Giuiliani and Obama have the most crossover appeal with 21 percent of Democrats saying they would share their fixins’ with the former NYC mayor while Obama attracts 24 percent of Republicans (compared with 14 percent for Clinton).

Per Fox News Polling Director Dana Blanton

While John McCain trails front-runner Rudy Giuliani in the race for the Republican nomination, slightly more Americans see McCain as a straight-talker and as honest and trustworthy than Giuliani; furthermore, for the second month in row McCain performs better against leading Democrat Hillary Clinton in hypothetical matchups than any other top-tier Republican, according to a FOX News poll released Thursday.

And despite Clinton having the highest negative rating of all the top contenders, she continues to not only hold a commanding lead in her party’s primary, but also to best her Republican opponents in the horserace.

The national telephone poll was conducted for FOX News by Opinion Dynamics Corp. among 900 registered voters from Nov. 13 to 14. The poll has a 3-point error margin

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Council Bluffs, IA — While his chief strategists discounted Iowa’s role in the presidential primary process on a Monday conference call, Rudy Giuliani returns to the Hawkeye State Wednesday for the third time in nearly three weeks. The quick stops come after Giuliani spent more than two months away between August and October.

He plans to hit two events in the Western part of the state today with scheduled stops in Council Bluffs and Rock Rapids. Giuliani’s visit also comes as two new polls show him in third place–continuing to lag behind Mitt Romney and now trailing a resurgent Mike Huckabee. The Giuliani camp sees the Huckabee uptrend as very positive as it splits the social conservative vote in IA and punches a hole in Romney’s argument that he is the true conservative in the race.

–A Strategic Vision poll has him at 12%, behind Mitt Romney with 30% and Mike Huckabee at 19%. Fred Thompson comes in fourth place with 11% and John McCain takes 7%.

–And the latest New York Times poll has similar numbers: Romney 27%, Huckabee 21%, Giuliani 15%, Thompson 9%, McCain 4% and Ron Paul at 4%.

Some fast facts that from the NYT poll that show a race that is still very much up for grabs: (c/o Corbett Riner–the FNC polling guru)

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