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Bush is an idiot and a bully

oleeb — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:42:28 +0000

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Bush is an idiot and a bully and the whole world knows it, yet the press continues to treat him as though he is a respectable, intelligent human being. They love McCain. How is that you figure they will start to trash him (who they love) when they wouldn't even do that to Bush after all his failure, incompetence, lies and criminality? I'm not going to hold my breath for the media to turn on McCain--which is not to say I wouldn't love it if they did. I just don't think it very likely.

It's true that polls dont'

oleeb — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:40:30 +0000

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It's true that polls dont' necessarily predict an exact outcome, particularly this far in advance, but it isn't just Rasmussen's surveys coming up with this result. They are all pretty much showing the two candidates as being even with or barely eeking by McCain.

Typically, at this point in a campaign vs an unpopular Republican where almost nothing going on right now benefits the Republican Party, the Democrat should be trouncing the enemy. But that isn't happening--not because the contest is still going on and some Democrats are being babies. It is happening because the candidates are weak.

Democrats always have a huge lead and it then gets winnowed down as the general election nears. Even then we have more often than not lost the presidency in the past 40 years. Where do you think we're going to end up when we start out even? I'm not encouraged to put it mildly.

"I really have no one in mind

Chino Blanco — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:22:56 +0000

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"I really have no one in mind ..."

Well, if the name of a potential nominee were to pop into your head, I'm sure we'd be the first to know.

Until then, pity McCain has no glaring weaknesses.

Don't be such a mope.

Nobody, but nobody in the MSM

eliyah — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:19:59 +0000

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Nobody, but nobody in the MSM has begun to go after McCain, as they are sure to do once anyone, but anyone starts harping on his complete ignorance of anything besides dubbing himself McBush. He appears to have surrounded himself with idiots, and even then doesn't appear to be following anyone else's advice.

This is a guy that isn't sure whether condoms help prevent the spread of AIDS and wants his advisors to find out what his thoughts used to be on the topic. What few economic policies he's articulated (badly) are clones of powerful lobbyists who own the Republican platform. He has no experience with military strategy, and can't even figure out how to publicly soften the Bushism that America will stay in Iraq until the "mission" is completed.

The guy is an idiot and a bully.

I believed as you did until I started reading about McCain. Now I think either Democratic candidate is guaranteed beat him. Republicans might badly weaken Clinton or Obama, but there's no way they can salvage McCain as a candidate.

RELAX! First of all, having

CampaignTactician — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:18:13 +0000

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RELAX!

First of all, having the poll numbers this close without having a decided nominee is actually good news for Dem chances. Support will grow once the nominee is decided, because you get everyone who had been thinking "I'm not voting for the other one, I'd rather sit it out or vote for McCain" coming to their senses. You also don't have anyone attacking McCain, but you do have Hillary v. Obama hurting each other's poll numbers.

There's no such thing as an accurate poll 7 months before the general election. All this tells you is that the state is competitive. It would take a much larger lead for this to be scary.

Finally, in my experience, Rasmussen tends to poll a bit conservative in general. Not in a huge way, they're not hacks, but they lean.

Lets review: Biden -

elsiegel — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:45:20 +0000

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Lets review:

Biden - experience
Dodd - experience
Kucinich - experience
Richardson - experience

Do Democrate want experienced leadership? Apparently not.

Inexperienced:
Gravel - too crazy-old-Kootish
Edwards - too I don't know what (maybe electable?)

Leaving us with the media's two top choices for the Democratic nomination:
Clinton and Obama

Not too experienced, not too crazy-old-Kootish, and you're right . . .
Probably not too electable, either.