Reality beat generic Democrat
LA Times:
Part of the problem is that when people are polled on satisfaction or dissatisfaction it rolls disparate groups together who are never going to vote for the same candidates. People who want to win the war in Iraq can be just as dissatisfied as those who want to lose. they are not going to vote for the same person.
Frederick Cole wants the Democratic Party to take back the White House in 2008. "Look what a mess we're in," said Cole, a nurse in Louisville, Ky. "It's time for some fresh, new-thinker ideas."This is not new. Polls have been showing similar head to head results for a year or more. What happens when reality invades is people look at alternatives and the one being offered by democrat candidates is not very attractive. The party's kook base is pushing these candidates to become even less attractive.
Yet if his party nominates Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York for president, the 52-year-old Democrat plans to vote for her Republican opponent.
"It's a personal thing," Cole said. "I don't like her. I think she's condescending and arrogant, even worse than Al Gore, who has no personality."
It is a paradox of the 2008 presidential race. By a wide margin, several polls show, voters want a Democrat to win — yet when offered head-to-head contests of leading announced candidates, many switch allegiance to the Republican.
In a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll conducted this month, this dynamic was most clearly evident with Clinton.
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.
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Part of the problem is that when people are polled on satisfaction or dissatisfaction it rolls disparate groups together who are never going to vote for the same candidates. People who want to win the war in Iraq can be just as dissatisfied as those who want to lose. they are not going to vote for the same person.
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