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July 24, 2003
Candidate Poll
Now here's something interesting....Lieberman leads the other Democratic presidential candidates in a just-released national poll.
Lieberman, a Connecticut senator, was at 21 percent and Gephardt, a Missouri representative, was at 16 percent — just within the error margin of plus or minus 5 percentage points in the Quinnipiac University poll.
Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, was at 13 percent and Dean, a former governor of Vermont was at 10 percent. Other candidates in the nine-member field were at 6 percent or lower. More than a fifth, 21 percent, were undecided.
Hardly a decisive lead....and one that drops dramatically if Hillary is included.
But if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is added to the field, she dominates, taking 48 percent to 11 percent for Lieberman, with others in single digits.
I can't see Hillary jumping in unless Bush takes a major hit from some disaster, she's not the type to get into a fight she doesn't have a snowball's chance of winning. And I'm kinda surprised to see so many Dems anxious to take a bullet for the party....and Lieberman as the front-runner? C'mon, let's get serious. He's unelectable. First, he's tainted with the whole Gore election debacle, in which he came across as a total whiny ass crybaby.
And then there's the whole general wussiness factor. I mean, really, can you see him successfully fighting his way out of a wet paper sack? Mr. Rodgers was a very nice man, but is he the type of person you want as Commander-in-Chief defending our nation?
Not after 9/11. Ain't gonna happen.
It's a crying shame that the Dems are so clueless, and appear likely to remain so. I don't agree with most anything they support, but I do believe that we need a strong two-party system for our government to work as it should. A one-party government is a very dangerous thing.
But they seem intent on self-destruction, and there's no viable political party rising to take their place.
Interesting times in which we're living.
Posted by Rita at July 24, 2003 07:53 AM
Comments
Interesting take. Actually, I think Lieberman is the only one with a snowball's chance against Bush. Every other Democrat is too far left on the War on Terror.
Posted by: Spoons at July 24, 2003 09:20 AM
I agree, he's certainly the cream of the crop...which doesn't say much for the crop. And he'll certainly appeal to the centrist Dems. The question is whether there's enough of them left to elect him over a very popular President. I don't think there is, but I've been wrong before.
It'll be interesting, but then politics usually are.
Posted by: Rita at July 24, 2003 10:55 AM