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Obama put it well when he said talking with his wife about his work didn’t qualify her to be a Senator. The very idea of it is preposterous.

petefrt on November 26, 2007 at 6:55 PM

I missed that one, but if he said it ’twas a good zinger.

But you kind of just said that, sort of.

MB4 on November 26, 2007 at 5:14 PM

I have flaws, my friend, but I’m not a “kind of” or “sort of” gal :)

Hillary is shrewd but has astronomical negatives. Obama has a more likeable persona but seems to have no substance whatsoever. Edwards combines the negative traits of the other two – as sleazy as Clinton and even more vapid than Obama.

Equally remarkable is that it is impossible to point to even a single accomplishment of *any* of them. Kerry had much the same problem in 2004 after 20-odd years in the Senate, so he trumpeted his war service 35 years earlier as a substitute for a record. But Clinton, Obama and Edwards don’t even have that to fall back on, and they are all essentially just one-term senators who have spent all their time running for, or preparing to run for, the presidency.

Frankly, I think Hillary is the only one of the three that’s even remotely qualified to be President, but as the best-known candidate it seems like she has little room to improve peoples’ impressions of her.

Obama put it well when he said talking with his wife about his work didn’t qualify her to be a Senator. The very idea of it is preposterous.

lorien1973 on November 26, 2007 at 4:34 PM

Sorry… but right now the numbers are NOT 40/40/20…

check your voter registrations…

In Colorado it runs a bit more than 1/3 of the registered voters are either Unaffiliated or a party other than Rep or Dem.

Yep, fully 1/3 of the voters nationaly are NOT represented by the two major parties… somthing the parties try to play down, and the MSM does not want to admit.

Rudy is basically running on Hillary’s same platform, maybe even left of her. The only real seperation between Rudy and Hillary is Rudy believes there is a War on Terror. Hillary only kind of believes, depending on the polls, and who she is speaking to. Both have never seen an abortion they weren’t in favor of, a gun control law they didn’t like, nor an Amnesty law they oppose. Rudy’s record speaks far more clearly than Rudy himself.

Imagine the headlines, the adoration, the empty promises…

Exactly. Plus, Rudy is an unlikeable SOB too. At least to most people outside of NYC. I think Hillary crushes Rudy. Hillary would even win a Southern state or two against Rudy.

RW Wacko on November 26, 2007 at 5:19 PM

Um exactly how is he unlikeable? What ’cause he doesn’t have a southern drawl? You know that’s why the south lost the war…they talked to slow.

Does anyone know where to find the Congressional and Senate seats up for grabs next year? Is there any breakdown in those races (poll numbers)?

stenwin77 on November 26, 2007 at 4:45 PM

Is hard to get data on the numbers. Is general info here

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=2008_elections

Senate races up in 2008

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, Republican
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, Republican
Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor, Democratic
Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard, Republican
Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, Democratic
Georgia Sen. C. Saxby Chambliss, Republican
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, Republican
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, Democratic
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, Democratic
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, Republican
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, Republican
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, Democratic
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Republican
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, Democratic
Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, Democratic
Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, Republican
Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, Republican
Montana Sen. Max Baucus, Democratic
Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican
New Hampshire Sen. John E. Sununu, Republican
New Jersey Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, Democratic
New Mexico Sen. Pete V. Domenici, Republican
North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole, Republican
Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, Republican
Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, Republican
Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, Democratic
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican
South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson, Democratic
Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Republican
Virginia Sen. John Warner, Republican
West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller
Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi, Republican

When the Republican candidate actually gets to go against her head to head she will crumble. She is no “centrist” like Bill, she is devout Marxist, and vulgar in every aspect. She has pinned her victory to her belief that every woman in the country will vote for her because she is a woman.

She is worse in debates then Bush ever was, and more wishy washy than Kerry. She is an absolute poll chaser, and it is obvious when she debates, she has no ideal that won’t revolt most Americans, so she just hops onto whatever the current sentiment dictates.

He is on this “Teens arent included” kick. And he overestimates the teen vote in all his polls

Also, I find it interesting that Gallup’s methodology says:

These results are based on telephone interviews with a randomly selected national sample of 897 registered voters, aged 18 and older, conducted Nov. 11-14, 2007. For results based on this sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum error attributable to sampling and other random effects is ±4 percentage points.

…while Zogby says:

The online survey included 9,150 likely voters nationwide, and was conducted Nov. 21–26, 2007. It carries a margin of error of +/– 1.0 percentage points.

And then, as William Amos on November 26, 2007 at 4:33 PM said, Rasmussen tilts in favor of Republicans, too.

Another thing to remember is the fact that ALL registered voters do not always vote, while “likely” voters (duh) most likely will vote.

I participate in Zogby polls/surveys, too (although I wasn’t in this one) and I have found their wording of the questions pretty clear and straightforward.

McCain seems to do the best, though they all beat her. A coblogger (probably Dave in Texas) posted this in the sidebar, but RobG just reminded me. Seems big enough to note on the main page. Democrat Hillary Clinton would……

But Hillary’s problem is not simply that she generally tends to have high unfavorables. Rather, it is that she has high numbers of people who specifically say they would not vote for her for President, though the most recent poll I saw on that question had the number as low as 43%.

Limerick on November 26, 2007 at 5:13 PM

Exactly. Plus, Rudy is an unlikeable SOB too. At least to most people outside of NYC. I think Hillary crushes Rudy. Hillary would even win a Southern state or two against Rudy.

I wish for Hillary to make it in the primaries, regardless of the source of the polls.

Entelechy on November 26, 2007 at 5:07 PM

Hillary is the main thing that Republicans have going for them now.

But you kind of just said that, sort of.

AP is just itching to declare “Game over, maaaaaaannn” on 2008, but the data just doesn’t support it.