[Strider]

And, given that 48 per cent of the sample identified themselves as Democrats, what this poll seems to have found is that Clark attracts the 48 per cent you’d expect him to plus a barely detectable smidgeonette of the rest.

One would have to run a crosstab of Party Affiliation vs. Who Would You Vote For? to come to that conclusion. The above conclusion can not be arrived at looking at the sample as a whole.

Of course, you really can't extrapolate any of the results to the entire population, given the less than random nature of the sample (48% Democrats???).

I'd like to give the polling company the benefit of the doubt, but, I've seen too many of them trade their integrity for money.

The only use for a skewed sample, like this, is for propaganda.

At least 80% of the effort required to conduct a good poll is on keeping the sample random. Given this fact, I can only conclude that the polling company purposely skewed the results.

[Dave Olson]

The more I see of Wesley Clark, the more he reminds me of that paranoid General, Jack Ripper,
in Dr. Strangelove.

[beaversmom]

Mark Steyn's biting wit makes me want to scream-- ‘Yes, yes! Oh, God!! Yes!!! Aaaooooowwwwaaaooah!!!!’

If there is a ping list for his articles, I wouldn't mind being on it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

That’s what he is to the public at the moment: ‘None Of The Above’ in a General’s uniform.

Now that is a perfect characterization of Clark's appeal!

[George W. Bush]

On Howard Dean: To date, he’s run a brilliant campaign and is the principal beneficiary of his party’s visceral loathing of Bush and all his works. He’s poised to kill off two Democrat bigshots in the first two votes — former House minority leader Dick Gephardt in the Iowa caucus and Senator Kerry in the New Hampshire primary. Is he going to sit back and let some Clinton stooge who’s never run for anything steal the nomination away from him? Not if he’s the same Howard Dean I’ve spent a decade watching from my side of the Connecticut River. When the going gets tough, Dean gets mean.

Spot on. Howie ain't gonna go quietly. Look for an offensive against Clark next week. Dean will bloody and ravage anyone who tries to take the frontrunner spot away from him and he'll spoil the whole election for the Dims if that's what it takes. Howie is kind of a suicide-pact candidate. If he goes down, he'll try to take the rest down with him.

Howie will play the mad-dog role quite effectively, I think.

Dean is the nominee.

[joesnuffy]

The Clintons are using Clark as a place card, just to keep the seat warm for Hill in case, come the spring, Bush looks weak enough to be going down. By then, Clark may be happy to settle for being Senator Rodham’s running mate.

[alwaysconservative]

For weeks now, Senator Kerry has been saying that he only voted for the Congressional resolution authorising war with Iraq in order to persuade Saddam to comply with Hans Blix. It never occurred to the Senator that anyone would mistake his vote in favour of war as a vote in favour of war. Why, that was the very last thing on his mind! For someone who’s supposed to be this season’s John McCain, Clark so far is doing a very good impression of the most tentative, equivocal and hair-splitting of the Democrat hacks he’s supposed to be the straight-talking alternative to.

THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting another of Steyn's brilliant pieces!

[knighthawk]

Ping

[hosepipe]

[ polls of registered voters are less accurate than polls of ‘likely voters’ ]

Hmmmmmm... sounds like a lot of dead people are voting.. multiple times maybe.. maybe a few illegals thrown in.

[HAL9000]

From Arkansas, Bill went on to Washington; his successor as governor, Jim Guy Tucker, went on to jail.

Jim Guy Tucker was convicted and resigned from office - but he did not go to jail.

[Allan]

bump

[GOPJ]

LOL:

If I were a Democrat, my main priority for the party would be to get the car keys back from Bill Clinton.

[GOPJ]

bump

[lainde]

Thanks poket...Terrific Steyn!

[PGalt]

With the addition of the newest dwarf, Wesley Clark...Monica Lewinsky might as well run...she was the ultimate mouthpiece for Bill Clinton. She would move to the head immediately.