2008 Democratic Presidential Primary Poll (HILLARY HAS LOST THE LEAD!!)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | April 23, 2007 | Scott Rasmussen

[RightWhale]

Obama is in a different league when it comes to public speaking. Don’t know aqbout the rest of it, but Clinton couldn’t even get the lead in community theater while Obama could be on Broadway.

[Migraine]

going to be a dem primary war like nothing we’ve ever seen.

You mean the news is finally going to be fun to watch again? Yea-hoo! The MSM's daily torpedoing of G-Dub is getting me nauseous.

[LS]

No, that scenario won’t happen. But it is really early, and the Clinton hit machine hasn’t BEGUN to slime Barack the “Magic Negro.”

[Sicon]

Reports are that even her own DAUGHTER prefers Bill to her mother

I'd sooner hug week-old road-kill myself.

[kevkrom]

Question for the (remaining) Rudy-bots:

If we have to abandon our conservative principles to vote for Guiliani based on current polls that show that he can beat Hillary; then how does this poll, showing Hillary won't even be the nominee, square with your presumptions?

Or are some of these polls less meaningless than others?

[princess leah]

When I read that Hillary intends to shuffle ol Bill off to all corners of the earth, I thought: “this is just her way to keep him out of the White House on a regular basis”...Somehow, I don’t think ‘ol Bill is going to “go along” with being the “gopher” for her Presidency...

[TomGuy]

As for the ‘Clinton machine’....lets not get too carried away. The best the so called ‘machine’ could do was over a decade ago, gaining Bill Clinton 49 percent of the vote in a three candidate race featuring a unelectable to national office GOP candidate (Bob ‘its my turn, damnit!’ Dole).

A Green Party Gore could spell disaster for the Dems. It could pull enough votes away from the GOP that they could even elect Dole this time.

A Big-Business Country-Club Independent Bloomberg could spell disaster for the GOP if they don't nominate a BB-CC and go with a more conservative condidate. It could pull enough votes away from the GOP that the Dems could elect Dumbo -- the elephant or the clown from Illinois.

[Badeye]

I don’t see a faux republican like Bloomberg gaining any support outside of the weird political enviroment that is New York city.

let alone a gun grabber, which is most certainly is.

[TomGuy]

Perhaps the most interesting question is whether Hitlary would settle for #2.

I don't see Hillary giving the #2 nod to Obama. He adds little to her campaign. She would already get much of the Black vote anyway. She would probably already get Illinois, too (favorite daughter). So Obama adds nothing to her campaign demographics.

If Obama did win the nomination, Hillary would probably not accept the #2. Rather, she would return to the Senate and take the leadership role from Harry Reid. Senate leader would be more power than VP (unless Obama showed some serious health problems or decides to take a stroll through Fort Marcy Park -- then, all bets are off). If Obama did win the nomination, I doubt that he would ask Hillary to be #2.

[Lee'sGhost]

I agree with all of that. Which is why I made my original point — Clinton won’t get away with using her politices of personal destruction like she/he has in the past. Grab a chair and pass the popcorn.

[GOP_Proud]

I know yellow-dog Dems in my state (WV) who would not only NEVER vote for Hillary, but they will actually vote FOR any Republican against her just to try to make it a humiliating loss. That’s how strong the sentiment is against her.

[newfreep]

Rasmussen Reports also monitors underlying party identification trends and has found a substantial shift away from the GOP over the past six months.

Not good news regardless who the 'rats nominate.

[TomGuy]

What is the difference between a yellow-dog Dem and a blue-dog Dem?

Isn’t the blue-dog Dem the same as the Reagan Democrat who was the Southern Democrat?

And when did the donkeys become dogs?

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

That’s too bad because I would like to have her as an opponent in the General Election.

Me too. They joy of watching the witch's face as she reads her concession speech , that will be priceless.

[oceanview]

not to me. Richardson is the guy who scares me as Hillary’s VP, because his pull with hispanics puts the western states in play, and makes margins otherwise tighter in states with hispanic demographics.

the DNC has the polling data to be sure - they know Obama’s chances in the general election. So if it looks like he is going to win the primary (ala Dean), watch for Gore to get it and make a late surge.

[gogeo]

You've been consistent.

I think we'll all be amazed and disgusted at the depth to which politicing and media reporting will sink in '08. I've not been wrong over the past 10 years in thinking the worst of the Clintons or the left...only when I've thought, "They surely can't support him after that?!?"

Can she be beat, in the primary or the general? Sure. I don't see Obama is the guy to do it. He's never been in this kind of battle before, I'd bet.

Negative ratings have never been an issue for Hillary...she'll just raise the other guy's negatives more. She's a mud slinger and brawler by nature, pure appetite born of resentment and ambition. She's a child of the worst excesses of the '60s and '70s, radical to the core. She is, IMO, evil. She wants admiration and worship, but she'll settle for being feared, and for power...for now.

I think the left is primarily motivated by BDS. I think they aren't looking for a positive message. If they are, then I'm wrong and Obama is the nominee...but I don't think so.

You give the party more credit than I do. I'm up here in the People's Republic of King County, WA.

[apocalypto]

That is what I think also: Al Gore is the answer.

How can Hillary have 50% favorable rating and Barak Obama even more? What is there to like about those them and Edwards, all wimps?

[Badeye]

I’ve always wanted to visit the northwest.

[kalee]

I agree. I wonder what the poll numbers would have been had he been included. I have been saying for quite a while Gore will be the Dem nominee. For all the inevitability talk about Hillary, in the minds of many Gore was robbed in 2000 so he has a greater claim. And I think he will be tough to beat.

[twigs]

I’m not so sure she will win the nomination, but if she does and puts Obama on her ticket, I think they will certainly lose. I just don’t enough people will vote for two historic firsts on the ticket. BTW, I just bought your book.