NEW YORK — Headed into the primary season, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani are scoring the highest ratings among American Jews affiliated with the two political parties, the American Jewish Committee's 2007 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion found.

Seventy percent of Jewish Democrats had a favorable opinion of Clinton, the New York senator; 48 percent felt favorably toward former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, and 45 percent felt that way about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

Among Jewish Republicans, 75 percent had a favorable opinion of Giuliani, the former New York mayor. He was followed by Arizona Sen. John McCain (49 percent), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (32 percent), and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson (32 percent), the survey found.