The LA Times says that America wants a Democrat in 2008, but not if it is Hillary Clinton. They polled it, but I could have told you that without a poll.
When registered voters were asked which party they would like to win the White House, they preferred a Democrat over a Republican by 8 percentage points. But in a race pitting Clinton against former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Republican was favored by 10 percentage points.
Clinton’s showing against Giuliani was the starkest example of how the general Democratic edge sometimes narrows or vanishes when voters are given specific candidates to choose between.
The poll also showed Clinton trailing when matched against two other Republicans, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The deficits, however, were within the survey’s margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
They interview some of the pollees and find that they just don’t like Hillary, think she is dishonest, and don’t want the drama of her marriage for eight years in the White House. Some of this is, no doubt, the residual effect of a sustained Republican hit-job on her reputation. And it is all part of a rather annoying ‘electability’ argument. But I maintain that Hillary can only win a narrow victory (if at all) while other candidates could carry 40 or more states and sweep in Dems throughout the country on their coattails. Plus, I don’t want the drama of her marriage either.
Doesn’t Hillary have a broad lead in the polls?
Also, is anyone here?
not in this one.
In a couple polls, Hillary and Obama lose pitted against any of the Republican top runners.
Edwards was the only Dem that beat out the top Republicans candidates.
So we nominate Hillary or Obama to our own peril.
Your LA Times link takes us back to this page.
I’ll be interested in knowing if this poll shows any of the Dems beating Giuliani. It’s been a strange result for some time that generic polls show the Dems heavily favored, yet Giuliani usually wins against all Dems.
Link is fixed.
I’m not a big Hillary fan, but what I see in this poll is that Hillary has already been through the slime machine, and the other Dems haven’t. If one of the others becomes the front-runner, expect a carpet bombing of “pretty boy $400 haircut” stories and “his name is Hussein and he went to a madrassah” stories.
In the end, it’s always the same: “I agree with the Democrats on the issues, but if only they’d nominated somebody else.”
We’ve got to be prepared to defend our own. Because no matter who we nominate, the slime storm is coming.
They’ve been targets for months. It’ll get worse, and it won’t just be from the opposition.
Hillary recently promised another package deal, the Clinton twofer, like it’s a good thing. The razor’s edge we’re riding is the unknown number of voters who see no ideological difference between Hillary and Rudy, who will end up voting based on likeability. I think we know how that one ends.