[dirtboy]

If you cared to open your eyes you would see the same numbers from the South essentially. Polls from Georgia, South Carolina and Florida have been posted here with similiarly positive results for Guiliani. Most likely you already know this but prefer to act as if you don't.

Howard Dean led John Kerry 40-12 in New Hampshire as of December 3rd, 2003.

Polls now are meaningless. They are pure name recognition.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Howard Dean was an ex-governor and thus had a leg up on any Congressman without executive experience. He also demonstrated the utter desperation of the Democrats. His chances were torpedoed by the Mass Media after it realized than Dean would be clobbered by Bush. It then put Kerry in believing he would have a chance. But for the Swifties he would have won. I, for one, never believed Dean had a chance at the nomination even when he was high-flying.

Polls are not "meaningless" they merely are not definitive in determining who among a group of close runners will be the winner. However, those candidates with low single digits or less can be pointed out in polls as having no chance.