Posted on 08/13/2007 1:53:18 PM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON - Looking past the presidential nomination fight, Democratic leaders quietly fret that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the top of their 2008 ticket could hurt candidates at the bottom.
They say the former first lady may be too polarizing for much of the country. She could jeopardize the party's standing with independent voters and give Republicans who otherwise might stay home on Election Day a reason to vote, they worry.
In more than 40 interviews, Democratic candidates, consultants and party chairs from every region pointed to internal polls that give Clinton strikingly high unfavorable ratings in places with key congressional and state races.
"I'm not sure it would be fatal in Indiana, but she would be a drag" on many candidates, said Democratic state Rep. Dave Crooks of Washington, Ind.
Unlike Crooks, most Democratic leaders agreed to talk frankly about Clinton's political coattails only if they remained anonymous, fearing reprisals from the New York senator's campaign. They all expressed admiration for Clinton, and some said they would publicly support her fierce fight for the nomination despite privately held fears.
The chairman of a Midwest state party called Clinton a nightmare for congressional and state legislative candidates.
A Democratic congressman from the West, locked in a close re-election fight, said Clinton is the Democratic candidate most likely to cost him his seat.
'She's so damn unpopular' A strategist with close ties to leaders in Congress said Democratic Senate candidates in competitive races would be strongly urged to distance themselves from Clinton.
"The argument with Hillary right now in some of these red states is she's so damn unpopular," said Andy Arnold, chairman of the Greenville, S.C., Democratic Party. "I think Hillary is someone who could drive folks on the other side out to vote who otherwise wouldn't."
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I see the potential for a massive Demo disaster in the making, but I think they have already hopped on the train and cannot get off.
Looking forward to a pasting of Hillary!
-Shell get 99%105% NYC, San Fran, 95% 125% LA Philly, Boston.
There. Fixed it.
...the ones who would leave their own death beds and crawl across broken glass to vote against She-Who-Must-Not-Named.
That’s nothing. The Democrats can vote after they’re dead.
That’s okay as long as she doesn’t get 125% of Miami and 140% of Dallas ;^)
Hillary is the bob dole of the democrats.
she’s going to need the viagra when the election is over.
Curiously, all of the Democrat leaders with the exception of Crooks had the same thing to say:
"Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."When asked to elaborate, they merely repeated the sentence...
Wow! They do say that couples start to look like each other after a while.
Come on! Even Forrest Gump would be smart enought to vote for Duncan Hunter! ;) Or at least, not to vote for Hillary.
I agree, I hope the dimwitted leftists nominate Hillary. It’ll be Nixon - McGovern all over again. She will win NY and a few others, but the popular vote will swing Republican in many states. Nominating Hillary is a sure bet that one of the good guys will win. Bring it on retards!
Republicans dont need hillary in order to vote, the do nothing congress is motivation enough
You’d think hildabeast would step aside for the communist party.
I would say she had been building it since the onset of the feminists methods of operation they called NETWORKING since Hillry's days of helping pen Nixon's articles of impeachment. If one looks very closely Hillry has lived up to and perfected every one of the supposed accusations made against Nixon. Especially that one of brown paper bags of cash getting dropped off at the White House.
Overestimating someone is just as dangerous. Mark my words, Hillary will not be the nominee.
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What coud be better for the southern states than a liberal woman and a muslim black man? I love it. Bring it on. It ought to be like a Reagan landslide if Republicans play it right.
Well, Peter Paul is doing his best to prevent her from being the nominee. That is the only thing I see preventing it.
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