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Wed 10 May, 2006 03:34 pm
Quote:The political situation has not helped some of the more prominent members of the Democratic Party. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was Mr. Bush's opponent in 2004, had a lower approval rating than Mr. Bush: 26 percent, down from 40 percent in a poll conducted right after the election.
And just 28 percent said they had a favorable view of Al Gore, one of Mr. Bush's more vocal critics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/washington/10poll.html?ei=5094&en=641ddb430eab14f8&hp=&ex=1147320000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all
I'd be all over a third party candidate that was serious about cleaning up, reducing the deficit and tending to the Americans for whom they are supposed to work rather than catering to business / big money.
Look at Hillary Clinton's numbers relative to everyone else. Better start getting use to hearing Mrs. President.
Quote:Look at Hillary Clinton's numbers relative to everyone else. Better start getting use to hearing Mrs. President.
I hope not; I think she has bent over backwards trying to appear a 'centrist'.
I have read that overall in most polls democrats are doing better than republicans.
Quote:Several recent polls show the president reaching new lows in national support, but there's one trend that shouldn't go overlooked: Americans actually like Democrats for the first time in a long while. For months, voters seemed to take a pox-on-both-your-houses attitude. The data consistently showed the public souring on the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress, but simultaneously reflect the fact that they weren't all that crazy about Dems either. Those days are over. Last month, an LA Times/Bloomberg poll asked Americans about their impressions of the parties in general -- and Republicans were viewed negatively; Dems were viewed positively. Last week, a USA Today/Gallup poll showed similar results. And today, a New York Times/CBS News poll made the trend even more obvious.
The problems plaguing the Republicans have clearly helped the Democrats: 55 percent said they now had a favorable view of the Democratic Party, compared with 37 percent with an unfavorable view. By contrast, 57 percent had an unfavorable view of Republicans, compared with 37 percent who had a favorable view.
We're looking at a landscape in which Republicans are not only falling, but Dems are finally rising.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/10.html#a8232
[note: if some don't like the source, there are links to back up the facts at the above link]
I think Hillary will have the problem of overexposure that Bush, Kerry, and Gore do, as well as the usual skeletons, her relationship with clueless Hollyweird, the immigration mess that the Democrats will probably have to take the wrong side on, and 30 years of quotes which won't work to her favor. And, not surprisingly, Americans are not impressed with politicians that do nothing but pose.
Plus, she needs a makeover (not like Pelosi's, who now looks like she has a vicegrip holding skin behind her neck) and can't get off camera long enough to get it done.
I do love the sound of Madam President. Margaret Thatcher saved the UK from a depressing socialist purgatory. There are politcians, some of them women, who can do the same for us.
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