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Posted on 01/30/2007 10:38:09 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
A neat bit of polling by the Gallup Organization shows that what's hurting Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primaries.
It isn't so much her vote on Iraq or even her flip-flops on the issue. What's undermining her support among liberals is doubts about her electability.
The poll results suggest that many liberals see the primaries as a kind of audition where they assess not only whether they like or agree with a candidate, but whether she can lead them to the White House in 2008. This degree of pragmatism is often seen in Republican circles, but is relatively new on the other side of the aisle.
Gallup asked a national sample of Democratic primary voters from Jan. 5-7 if they'd vote for Hillary if the primary were today. About a third (34 percent) said they definitely would, and about half (52 percent) said they "might consider" voting for her.
The remaining 14 percent said they would "definitely not" support her in the primary.
Then, Gallup followed up with the two-thirds of the sample that was not "definitely" voting for Hillary — asking why. The No. 1 reason? They felt she couldn't win.
Twenty-nine percent cited the fear that she would lose the general election; 16 percent mentioned her inability to win the nomination as a "major reason" for not voting for her.
Many cited both.
Only 26 percent said the major reason for their lack of support was disagreement on the issues; 11 percent cited personal dislike of her, and 10 percent said they didn't want "another Clinton in the White House."
This indicates that there is a large "secondary market" for attacks on Sen. Clinton. The primary market for such attacks is, of course, the legions of general-election voters who don't like her and don't think she should be president (including us). But liberals, while not necessarily embracing the negatives themselves, see them as a cause to doubt her political viability — and thus a reason not to vote for her.
So attacks on Hillary are not just important among the Hillary-haters — they also fuel doubts even among Democratic true-believers.
This, while she faces a double (or triple) squeeze play — her charisma squeezed by the first female speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and her ideological positioning under pressure from Sen. Barack Obama from the center and ex-Sen. John Edwards from the left.
All that could leave her the second choice of too many Democrats — especially if they really conclude she can't win.
I agree. Edwards is their man!
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Snicker! Plenty of yellow brick road for me to travel there!!
LOL!
I wanted to fill up your screen!
We'll never know. Clinton won his party's nomination, so it's possible he could have won without Perot in the race.
I think Bill Clinton won because he is "an unusually good liar", as Bob Kerrey put it.
It totally filled up my 19 inch screen so you did a good job of it, lol.
Looks really good
That is the larger "M" size .gif
Have an addition I'll try too
And the simpletons who use:
your vs. you're
there vs. their
to vs. too
For a lesson in poor grammar useage, listen to Sean Vannity; "three hours a day is all we ask."
M for medium?? Please don't use your large size BG, lol. Or maybe you mean the gif.
Huh? Where?
She can't win - I've said it many times, but Edwards can, and he is even more scary.
bump
Run, Hillary. RUN!
Not only possible, probable. Perot would have had to have pulled about 65% of his votes from Bush to have tilted the election to Clinton. I doubt that happened.
=:- )
I've got this little Hillery doll and I keep sticking pins and needles through its heart. Hasn't done any good then I remembered she hasn't a heart. So I started sticking pins and needles in its head and then I remembered she has no brain. So finally I started sticking them in her butt cause everyone knows full well she has an aple one of those.
No, no, not pins and needles! You need to use a miniature wooden stake. Also have a cross and holy water handy!
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