Posted on 06/18/2007 5:39:22 AM PDT by IrishMike
Polls show a favoritism toward Democratic candidates, but the edge narrows when specific choices are offered.
Frederick Cole wants the Democratic Party to take back the White House in 2008. "Look what a mess we're in," said Cole, a nurse in Louisville, Ky. "It's time for some fresh, new-thinker ideas." Yet if his party nominates Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York for president, the 52-year-old Democrat plans to vote for her Republican rival.
"It's a personal thing," Cole said. "I don't like her. I think she's condescending and arrogant, even worse than Al Gore, who has no personality."
It is a paradox of the early stages of the 2008 presidential race. By a wide margin, several polls show, voters want a Democrat to win -- yet when offered head-to-head contests of leading announced candidates, many switch allegiance to a Republican.
In a Los Angeles Times-Bloomberg poll conducted this month, this dynamic was most clearly evident with Clinton.
When registered voters were asked which party they would like to win the White House, they preferred a Democrat over a Republican by 8 percentage points. But in a race pitting Clinton against Republican Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor was favored by 10 percentage points.
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Only in LA and NY
Real democrats are never as fun as the imaginary ones...
"Male nurses for Obama!
“May the best party win...”
Can we put a name to either candidate?
“NO!”
Why do you have confidence in Democrat leadership, especially now?
“Because there is a Culture of Corruption among Republicans”
Have you compared the number of Democrat scandals to supposed Republican scandals?
“No, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Harry “Don’t Call Me A Mormon” Reid, Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, Robert “Sheets” Byrd, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Chuck Schuemer tell me all I need to know about Republicans.”
And you trust them? Hello? Is there anybody there???
“Tomorrow, tomorrow... A socialist UTOPIA is always a day-y-y-yyy-yy a-wayy-y-y-y-yyyyy!”
Maybe some people are conscious of the “No third term” amendment of our Constitution and don’t want to present a constitutional crisis by allowing spouses to serve 2 terms as unelected co-president, and then 2 more terms as elected co-president with the former elected president now serving as the officially titled “un-elected co-president”.
The Clinton’s language, not mine.
Fred can win if we all get behind him early.
www.imwithfred.com
Yup. The old I want a Democrat, no wait, not THAT Democrat as President.
Desiring change is a fleeting thing. When you see your options versus the idealized option you have in your head, suddenly Democrats look like a pretty bad choice.
Is Fred running..........or his TV personality?
I think most people voting for him in the polls are voting for his TV personality, not Fred.
Ouch - THAT's got to leave a mark.
I think she’s condescending and arrogant, even worse than Al Gore, who has no personality.
Ouch - THAT’s got to leave a mark.
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Surprising slap espicially when you consider the source.
Socialism is a fresh new-thinker idea?
Not this male nurse....!
I have heard Democrats say,they wish Hillary would just disappear, but then I have heard Republicans say that too, and well I am almost sure Bill Clinton has thought it on more than one occassion.
New world famous opera singer Paul Potts sings about Hillary on YouTube -— http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851925/posts
First, the poll is of registered, not likely voters. They always break democrat. Then, democrats always have a lead like this over republicans. It means nothing!
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