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2007-03-12 Home Front: Politix

Winning the White House? History's Against Them (Dems)

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Posted by Bobby 2007-03-12 07:09|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 His approval ratings are in the 30s,

But the ratings of Congressional Democrats are in the 20s. A bit of a conundrum, that.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-12 09:50|| 2007-03-12 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I dont recall even the GOP ads linking Willie Horton to the Dem congress. Duke ran on his Mass record, and this was an attack on his Mass record, period. And he failed to respond strongly to the attacks. It also didnt help that he sat on lead, taking the month off after the Dem convention.

No one is making those kinds of mistakes again.

I dont know as much about 1948, as far as the Dewey campaign is concerned, but my vague impression was the there was a lot of complacency there as well.

Which mainly says whoever is the Dem nominee shouldnt be complacent. I doubt very much whether Hilary would be complacent. Dont know about St Obama.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-12 12:44|| 2007-03-12 12:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting story in todays Wash Times. Its about how Dem strategists are questioning Hilarys electectability.

Whats very interesting is that the only named Dem strategist, is David Sirotta, a leftie blogger. Usually the Wash Times is quick to name a leftie as such. This time there was no such reference - if you didnt know better, youd think Sirotta was mainstream. The only other Dem quoted was an anon "press aide".

They also quoted some polls showing many folks think Hilary is not the most electable Dem. They did NOT compare her numbers in one-on-one matchups to those of other Dems.

If the Wash Times is so busy looking for stuff on Hilary, this suggests to me that Hilary is who the right is afraid of. Definitely not St. Obama.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-12 12:48|| 2007-03-12 12:48|| Front Page Top

#4 His approval ratings are in the 30s, the GOP has splintered, the economy is sputtering and the public believes that the Iraq war is hopeless.

This is what passes for journalism ???
'the GOP has splintered' - 'the economy is sputtering' - 'and the public (those who swallow our constant line of shit) believes that the Iraq war is hopeless'; 3 complete bullshit lines in one sentence.

The republicans have lined up 12 good, and great candidates for president, some kind of splintered. The economy is flourishing, and many of us know we will win in hopeless Iraq because we would have to run away for them to win. And, fighting in Iraq is a win in the first place.

Posted by wxjames 2007-03-12 13:55|| 2007-03-12 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Fred Thompson and Newt is the only ticket viable.

Posted by johnniebartlett 2007-03-12 19:48|| 2007-03-12 19:48|| Front Page Top

#6 The Fred Thompson thing is very interesting. The news he is considering jumping in is very welcome, indeed. He's solid, the hardcore conservatives will have few, if any, quibbles with him... and he can swing that segment of vacuous twitters that put the Dimmicrats over the top last November.

I heard Vitter (R-LA) say today he had talked with Giuliani at length and had decided he was okay with the man. Thompson, wouldn't need individual sit-downs with conservatives to convince them.

Lots of time remaining on the clock. I'm glad Billery and Hussein started so early - they will cut each other's throat long before it elapses.

Besides, I'd enjoy seeing (a) Fred elected Prezzident, LOL.

Posted by LAX 2007-03-12 20:03|| 2007-03-12 20:03|| Front Page Top

#7 GEORGE WILL + ROBERT NOVAK are in rough consensus that the Dems are hurting themselves going in 2008 POTUS andor Congressional elex - gonna be an uphill battle agz a hill the Dems built = are building themselves.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-12 22:21|| 2007-03-12 22:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Thompson/Pruitt '08!

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