Kentucky Dan wrote a good article about recent polls and their interpretation. You should go read it. However, I want to use something he said as a springboard:
Hillary Clinton and according to Rasmussen’s Hillary Meter:
Support Falls to 2005 Low[ . . . ]
So the Democrats are going to have to find another best hope. All the pronouncements about a Decline in Bush’s approval rating are meaningless if the Democratic Party’s is lower.
I’ve been saying all along that Hilary is not electable, and I’m not wavering from that. She’s not, for two reasons. First, no matter how hard she tries to appear “moderate” and do a Bill Clinton, she just can’t keep her yap shut about her socialist ideology. Second, the Democratic base has moved so far to the left that her attempts to appear “moderate” will kill her chances.
That’s good news. Here’s the bad news. We don’t have an electable candidate, at least now, and unless something changes, we won’t. Frist’s lack of … er … intestinal fortitude will keep him from winning the nomination. McCain doesn’t have any more chance of it now than he ever did, perhaps less. Clueless conservative bloggers like Giuliani, but there’s no way he, Romney, or Pataki will ever get near the White House. Condi would be a hell of a candidate, but she’s not going to run. Neither is Cheney.
We have George Allen, who is electable, but he should be getting his name in the papers. He’s not, and nobody knows who he is, or anything about him.
Right now, prospects for both parties in 08 are pretty grim.
Dan Kauffman says:
Thanks for the kind words, a real complement coming from this website.
December 3, 2005, 4:02 pmmahndisa says:
12 05 05
Geesh! Why won’t Condi Run?!!! I just don’t get her reluctance. My mother said it’s cuz she’s from Alabama and remembers being scared and paranoid due to racism. I understand that Colin Powell really did want to run too but his wife (from Alabama incidentally) talked him out of it and said America wasn’t ready and they would kill him. I wish people would just take a stand and say forget it! The MP of Canada is Black, one of their top conservative parlamentarians is a Black woman, the President of LIberia is a Black woman (first ever elected to an African country) so it would appear that things are changing. I wish she would just go for it and say shove it to naysayers. Never before has someone like her been in such a high position of POLITICAL power (OK except Oprah, but that is arguable…ha ha ha) Good post for making the reader think. I want Condi!!!
December 5, 2005, 4:19 pmJ Philip says:
I don’t recall W being that high on the radar back in 1998. McCain was, though. I could be wrong. I live behind the Iron Curtain here in New York anyway, what do I know.
December 5, 2005, 8:11 pmMahndisa says:
12 05 05
I recall that as well. Just like Mr. Yelling Dean was high on the radar for the Demoncats, well turned out he was too demonic for even them!!! ha ha ha:)
December 6, 2005, 12:23 am