“Neither for him and it would take a good deal of luck for fatso to become the Dem nominee. He would have to overtake Hillary, HUSSEIN Obama, Edwards and maybe Al Gore.”
The constant presumption of poll front runners 9 or 10 months out from the primaries equals the actual nominee is laughable. This is the poll from much later in the primary season last time around - note how far down John Kerry is:
CHOICE FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE Dec. 17, 2003
Howard Dean 23%
Wesley Clark 10%
Joe Lieberman 10%
Richard Gephardt 6%
Al Sharpton 5%
John Kerry 4%
John Edwards 2%
Carol Moseley-Braun 1%
Dennis Kucinich 1%
TN has dem governor. They also have Dem state legislators that introduce PRO gun bills!
Imagine NRA endorsed bill richardson running against gun grabbing rudy giuliani. Do you think rudy is going to win that matchup?
A lot of rudy supporters want him to be the maginot line against hillary, and they don’t realize the folly of putting all their efforts into one scenario that might never happen.
Kerry won because of his veteran status, but he was a flaming liberal. Bill Richardson is not. That's not to say he won't get the nomination, but his chanches are very slim.
Richardson might be compared to Joe Lieberman in that poll and look what happened to the latter.