Interestingly, right after I read Dan’s post I happened onto another poll that suggest Hillary’s dreams of living at 1600 Penna Avenue are a bit premature.
Clinton Gets High “NO” Vote for 2008 – CNN.com (so it must be true!)
Regarding potential Democratic candidates, 47 percent of respondents said they would “definitely vote against” both Clinton, the junior senator from New York who is running for re-election this year, and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the party’s candidate in 2004.
Forty-eight percent said the same of former Vice President Al Gore, who has repeatedly denied he intends to run again for president.
Among the Republicans, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fared better than the Democrats, and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush fared worse.
Only 30 percent said they would “definitely vote against” Giuliani; 34 percent said that of McCain.
For all of you who think I am out of the American mainstream (a.k.a. – “right wing nut job”), I’ll have you know that I guessed the results of this poll exactly the way they came out before I read the article.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Hillary doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the Democratic nomination, let alone the 2008 Presidential Election. Show me one state in the Union that she can take from the GOP.
The new face of the ultraLeft-leaning DNC seems to actually believe in their own myths. If elections are stolen, then Evangelicals are storming the voting booths. They seem to blithely ignore the fact that they’ve lost the Democrat centrists. You know, the average citizen in Middle America? During the 2000 Prez election, Clinton’s endorsements didn’t win Gore Arkansas, Dem Senior Senator Gephardt couldn’t get Missouri to lean toward Gore. Heck, even Gore couldn’t win his senate hometown Tennessee. VP candidate John Edwards did nothing to shore up the Southeast region.
It looks like the Dems will continue to ignore the Heartland and hedge their bets on swing states.
You’ve got it all wrong. The 48% are right wing nut jobs, only the 30% of right thinking Americans are mainstream. When you join the reality based community it will all become clear.
Truth Out, Baby.
It’s hard to convince anyone that you are “reality based” when you’ve got a handle like “BoBo.”
Truth in, BoBo.
Regards,
Peter H.
Hillary in a landslide in ’08!
great year to vote libertarian
To SharpRightTurn in number 1: I don’t know if Hillary can win the Democatic nomination; the activists who control the nominating process are veering far to the left of Hillary. But don’t be so sure that if she is the Democratic candidate she can’t win the general election.
In early polls — which probably don’t mean much over two years out from ’08 voting — Hillary’s weakest showings are against Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. But neither is likely to be on the Republican ballot. The Republican right-wing has too much to say about the nominee for Rudy to win. And when push comes to shove, I can’t really see the GOP fielding a candidate as old as McCain will be in ’08. If McCain is the nominee he’ll lose his appeal to independents, especially in moderate suburbs, once voters realize that despite his maverick image his voting record is one of the most consistent right-wing in the Senate.
All Hillary would have to do is hold the states Kerry won in ’04 and take a few of the states that went red for Bush. Iowa and New Mexico, which went for Gore in ’02, would be at the top of the list. Arizona, Nevada and Colorado haven’t been a sure thing for Republicans for several presidential elections and that purple tinge could turn blue in one or more of those states two years hence. And I wouldn’t bet on any Republican likely to be on the ballot in ’08 being able to carry Ohio.
I will concede that several Democrats would have an easier time putting together the right combination for an electoral college win — but they probably can’t win the Democratic nomination.
you failed to mention the same poll also showed Hillary receiving the most support. In one way, she’s very much like the current charlatan…very polarizing. Lest we forget, bush also received the highest percentages of people definitely voting against him.
One thing’s certain…Hillary won’t lie us into an illegal and immoral war.
No, she’ll lie about the Whitewater probe…about the FBI files in the White House living quarters…the Mets vs Yankees…her husband’s sexual predator nature (rapist)…the alleged “suicide” of Vince Foster…her previous affair in the 1980s with said Foster…her cattle future scheming…her role in the nationalizing of 17% of the GDP through her bogus Hillarycare health plan…
(Actually, I made up the one about the Mets vs. Yankees.)
And since the discovery of the WMDs in newly declassified documents from the DOD, I guess the war ISN’T illegal or immoral now, is it?
Just change your handle to “Iamreallywrongperiod.”
Regards,
Peter H.