Early Opinion Polls Look Bad for Gore [NYT, USA Today, CNN, Gallup, FOX, Bloomberg]

The NY Times - Political Round-up / Politics Section | Dec. 23, 2001 | NYT staff

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Early Opinion Polls Look Bad for Gore

Al Gore keeps saying he has not decided whether to run for president again in 2004.

But a lot of Democratic voters have reached a decision on that matter, if a new CNN/USAToday/Gallup Poll has it right.

Asked whether the party's 2004 standard-bearer should again be Mr. Gore or "someone else," 66 percent of poll respondents said "someone else."

And there is more.

Two other new polls — by Bloomberg and Fox News/Opinion Dynamics — indicate that even if Mr. Gore should be renominated, he would lose again, by a ratio of more than two to one, if President Bush should again be the Republican nominee.

[Nick Danger]

If they win, (God forbid), it gives her a clear shot at the #1 spot eight years later.

Eight years? More like eight minutes. And no one will have seen a thing. No suspects, no witnesses, he's gone, just like that. Osama did it.

[marajade]

Bill Clinton may be able to sell himself as a Dem in the middle but Hillary would never get away with it.

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PS to Torie's post #19 -- Or, can he at least fake those things?

[marajade]

Has anyone but the google search engine even heard of him?

[Torie]

John Kerry can. I think he would be a formidable candidate if Bush is wounded. But so far Bush has been a total hunk.

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I don't know, Torie. I think MA as the home state of a presidential candidate, and all my mind can come up with is: MA=LOSER

[marajade]

Kerry served in Vietnam.

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Right about Kerry -- now, did John Edwards from NC serve anywhere?

[Torie]

Well Dukakis got 47% of the two party vote with all kinds of liabilities, and Kerry is a much better politician than Dukakis, and more flexible and appealing.

[marajade]

Isn't Edwards too young to have served except maybe in a volunteer capacity?

[Drango]

I can't think of who else has a military background, off the top of my head. I think the nominee will be required somehow to have a military background, or else, forget it.

Dude, Hillary! She has the thighs of a miltary man! Plus she knows it all!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

They want Queen Commie Hitlery I am sure.

[Howlin]

John Edwards did not serve.

All you need to know about John Edwards: plaintiff attorney.

After the farces when John Walker is tried and the whining "victims" of WTC go to court, this country will be SICK of trial attorneys.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Hillary TRIED to join the marines YEARS ago to have this very edge.

[Grim]

If they win, (God forbid), it gives her a clear shot at the #1 spot eight years later.

She'll be 60 years old by then.

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I really don't think she will run in 2004, but I think she will in 2008. Although, maybe she would run in the VP slot in 2004.

[marajade]

Thanks... Wasn't sure about Edwards.

[marajade]

She'll be 60 years old by then.

So? Reagan was in his seventies wasn't he?

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Re your post #29 -- Gee, I didn't even remember Dukasis getting that much of the vote. All I remember is that he seemed to lose every state save one or two.

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Dukasis = Dukakis