Wheels Coming Off the Hillary Express?
November 27th, 2007 at 12:32am Mark Noonan
Polls are weak reeds, especially this far out - but any hint of vulnerability on the part of Hillary Clinton will put her entire campaign plan at risk:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton trails five top Republican presidential contenders in general election match-ups, a drop in support from this summer, according to a poll released on Monday.
Clinton’s top Democratic rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, still lead Republicans in hypothetical match-ups ahead of the November 4, 2008, presidential election, the survey by Zogby Interactive showed.
Clinton, a New York senator who has been at the top of the Democratic pack in national polls in the 2008 race, trails Republican candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee by three to five percentage points in the direct matches.
In July, Clinton narrowly led McCain, an Arizona senator, and held a five-point lead over former New York Mayor Giuliani, a six-point lead over former Tennessee Sen. Thompson and a 10-point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Romney.
The narrative for Hillary Clinton is that she is unstoppable in the Democratic primaries and this is mostly because she is the one Democrat who supposedly can win the White House for the Democrats - I’ve never bought either part of this narrative, and with her flubs in debates, her flip flops on immigration/border security, the left’s distaste for her continued quasi-support for the campaign in Iraq, Obama’s possible lead in Iowa and now this poll showing her being beaten by all five of the top GOP contenders, I think that a lot of Democrats will question the narrative as well.
Time will tell, of course - but I think that both Obama and Edwards have obvious openings here…but, additionally, some good moves by the second tier (Richardson, eg) can have an impact. And, finally, a hint of Hillary collapse could bring both Kerry and Gore into the race as late entrants who are more credible than any of the other non-Hillary Democratic candidates.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats
5 Comments
1. Wheels Coming Off the Hil&hellip | November 27th, 2007 at 6:45 am
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2. hermie | November 27th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Well, don’t forget the Clinton smear machine hasn’t yet been unleashed. I’m sure Perky Katie Couric and Wolf (Please Don’t Hurt Me!) Blitzer have already been given stories by Hillary to derail the Obama/Edwards/Richardson camps.
3. phnx | November 27th, 2007 at 7:49 am
And now rumors of her lesbian affair with her aide Huma Abedin are begining to surface again. Personally I could care less. But Huma may turn out to be more of a liability for other reasons.
It seems that she was raised by her muslim parents from age 2 to 20, when she came to work in the Clinton Whitehouse as an intern.
Questions are now being raised as to how someone on a clerical salary can afford designer clothes and a $600K condo in DC.
Speculation is that she may have links to Suadi Intelligence.
In case you missed it:
http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1037
Now all of you moonbats who excoriate Bush for ties to the Saudi Royal family, are you ready to defend Hillary and HER Saudi link??
4. Angry Redneck | November 27th, 2007 at 8:01 am
I’m still shocked that “credible” was used in a sentence referring to Kerry and Gore…
5. phnx | November 27th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
“Now all of you moonbats who excoriate Bush for ties to the Saudi Royal family, are you ready to defend Hillary and HER Saudi link??”
Moonbat response:
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