I know it's just a poll and that it's still really early, but it can't make her feel very confident about her chances in November next year should she actually win the Democratic nomination:
More than half of Americans say they wouldn't consider voting for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new national poll made available to McClatchy Newspapers and NBC News.
The poll by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research found that 52 percent of Americans wouldn't consider voting for Clinton, D-N.Y. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, was second in the can't-stand-'em category, with 46 percent saying they wouldn't consider voting for him.Clinton has long been considered a politically polarizing figure who would be a tough sell to some voters, especially many men, but also Clinton-haters of both genders.
Thursday's survey provides a snapshot of the challenges she faces, according to Larry Harris, a Mason-Dixon principal.
"Hillary's carrying a lot of baggage," he said. "She's the only one that has a majority who say they can't vote for her."
Clinton rang up high negatives across the board, with 60 percent of independents, 56 percent of men, 47 percent of women and 88 percent of Republicans saying they wouldn't consider voting for her.
And the poll is of likely general election voters. That's got to smart.



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Kind of hard to screw o... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | June 30, 2007 12:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kind of hard to screw or skew this type of poll. No words like less likely, somewhat likely etc.
"She's the only one that has a majority who say they can't vote for her"
And this is all that matters in the fantasy world the democrats live in. She who arrogantly pretends to speak for the people, the MAJORITY. How is this lying fraud , wife of another lying fraud going to spin this earth shaking news? I hope there are no ash trays within waddling distance. Heads up!
1. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | June 30, 2007 12:30 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 12:30
2. Posted by nehemiah | June 30, 2007 12:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'll vote for her.
(in the primary).
2. Posted by nehemiah | June 30, 2007 12:33 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 12:33
3. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 12:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I actually hope she does win the nomination. She'd be the easiest of the Dems to beat.
3. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 12:46 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 12:46
4. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | June 30, 2007 12:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"I'll vote for her.
(in the primary)."
You registered democratic?
He he , that's right , so can I. I really don't think I could put an x next to her name in the primary even if it was 100% guaranteed that she would lose the election. I'd feel filthy for the rest of my life already having ignorantly voted for her partner in crime. ugh!
4. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | June 30, 2007 12:54 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 12:54
5. Posted by Matt | June 30, 2007 12:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The real question is, will 52% of registered voters actually go to vote? If a siginificant of the 52% that won't vote for her, actually don't go to the polls, she could win.
5. Posted by Matt | June 30, 2007 12:58 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 12:58
6. Posted by RRRoark | June 30, 2007 1:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Her partner-in-crime won the presidency with 43.3% of the vote. But this time I think Bloomberg will hurt her while Perot hurt Bush more.
http://www.multied.com/elections/1992pop.html
6. Posted by RRRoark | June 30, 2007 1:17 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 13:17
7. Posted by kim | June 30, 2007 1:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Americans have never elected a President they were afraid of, and won't this time. That might even be what is behind Bloomberg's move. A lot of powerful people are afraid of her. I, personally, wonder what George thinks of her.
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7. Posted by kim | June 30, 2007 1:21 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 13:21
8. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | June 30, 2007 1:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"That might even be what is behind Bloomberg's move."
Oh the triangulation desperation of such a madd evil power starved woman. She fiends for power worse than a vampire for blood or a crackhead for crack. She should be denied for that reeason alone not to mention she is unfit , unqualified and undeserving.
8. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | June 30, 2007 1:31 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 13:31
9. Posted by Captain Ned | June 30, 2007 2:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Don't forget her cankles.
9. Posted by Captain Ned | June 30, 2007 2:23 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 14:23
10. Posted by Gator | June 30, 2007 2:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Don't worry, she won't be alone. No one will vote for the rest of them either. Ron Paul will be the Winner !
10. Posted by Gator | June 30, 2007 2:49 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 14:49
11. Posted by Larkin | June 30, 2007 3:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hillary's not going to be the nominee anyway. Al Gore is. Go to Draft Gore right now and sign the petition.
If you think about it, Gore has played this thing perfectly. While the Democrat candidates are battling it out in the trenches he stays above the fray. He's going to step in right at the point where it appears Hillary has it but Democrat anxiety about her electability will be peaking.
Gore's going to run, and he's going to beat whoever the Republicans put up. Mark my words.
11. Posted by Larkin | June 30, 2007 3:11 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:11
12. Posted by John in CA | June 30, 2007 3:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
At least the Goreacle supporters have some chance of seeing their guy win the nomination. Ron Paul has zero chance. Sorry to break it to you.
It's not that he doesn't have some good points on some things. But when he moves into Troofer Movement territory, he loses a whole swath of potential voters. Face it, at that point he just seems whacky.
12. Posted by John in CA | June 30, 2007 3:25 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:25
13. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 3:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Put... down... the... Kool-aid.
13. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 3:29 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:29
14. Posted by John in CA | June 30, 2007 3:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
As I commented yesterday -
I hope the Goreacle does get in the race. First, he's a known loser.
Better yet, I hope the democratics nominate him as their candidate. I see him as the easiest to beat. He's been way too visible the last few years. There's some great material out there for GOP campaign ads.
Imagine an ad with his red, enraged face screamin, "He lied to us, he played on our fears!". Then show the Goreacle making his pronouncements on the threat from Saddam and WMD.
Then, in the Presidential debates, surely global warming will come up. A year from now, AGW will be even more discredited than it is getting now. Any one of our front runners should be able to blow the Goreacle's AGW alarmism right out of the water.
As an added note, I find it humorous as pundits talk about the GOP presidential candidates distancing themselves from Bush. Yet, the Goreacle, Clinton's VP, sprinted away from him as fast as he could.
The Goreacle didn't even carry his own state. Even Mondale carried his state in Reagan's landslide victory.
14. Posted by John in CA | June 30, 2007 3:32 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:32
15. Posted by Semanticleo | June 30, 2007 3:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's 1948. Deja Vu all over again.
http://math.uprm.edu/~wrolke/esma3015/truman.htm
15. Posted by Semanticleo | June 30, 2007 3:37 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:37
16. Posted by Steve Crickmore | June 30, 2007 3:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Clinton has long been considered a politically polarizing figure ...This is the tag that is invariably used to describe Hillary but I have never met anyone who has been politically attracted to her.
16. Posted by Steve Crickmore | June 30, 2007 3:50 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:50
17. Posted by Chris G | June 30, 2007 3:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Don't fret. 52% won't vote for her? No problem. With the help of dead voters on active rolls, and multiple voter affidavits across the state from the same individual voters, Hillary will win with 52% of the vote..... But wait. What happens with a 52% to 52% tie between the her and the Republican candidate?
Still don't fret. Just get Gore to go on tour screeching " SEE AMERCIA... THEY DID IT TO ME, NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO DO IT TO HER",
And Michael Moore will give multiple interviews which will end with "It's a shame this happens in a country as great as America. Jesus have mercy on us".
I know, I'm such an @sshole
17. Posted by Chris G | June 30, 2007 3:56 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:56
18. Posted by John in CA | June 30, 2007 3:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
BroomHillary is a bigger political pandering phony than her husband.
18. Posted by John in CA | June 30, 2007 3:56 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:56
19. Posted by Sonoma | June 30, 2007 3:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
At least Hilary believes in science, unlike one third of the GOP candidates who think the Earth is 6000 years old.
At a time when US student test scores in math and science lag behind 20 other nations, does the GOP really want morons like Sam Brownback up at a podium claiming that science isn't true?
Only in the modern republican party do you have such morons.
19. Posted by Sonoma | June 30, 2007 3:58 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 15:58
20. Posted by Semanticleo | June 30, 2007 4:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
'does the GOP really want morons like Sam Brownback up at a podium claiming that science isn't true?
Only in the modern republican party do you have such morons."
What's your point? Brownback isn't in the running for Prez'.........................................
............oops.
20. Posted by Semanticleo | June 30, 2007 4:01 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 16:01
21. Posted by jdavenport | June 30, 2007 4:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm about to change my registration from Republican to independent.
This whole thing is a bad joke, with our future as the punch line.
I am worried about a third party coming in and granting the crown to Hillary. I would rather have Gore - and I seriously dislike Gore.
Hillary is a Marxist. Same thing as a Fascist. Regardless of whether one believes Bush to also be a Fascist, I'm not in the mood for another president that consolidates federal power.
21. Posted by jdavenport | June 30, 2007 4:03 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 16:03
22. Posted by jdavenport | June 30, 2007 4:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I don't have aproblem with Brownbacks faith. No, I have a problem with him voting for cloture on the immigration bill and then when he sees it's going down, quickly changing his vote.
That Bill was elite garbage. I would be for a path to citizenship, but only if they secure the border and don't plan on importing 100-150 million more citizens within 20 years.
Fricken insane elite jerkoffs.
22. Posted by jdavenport | June 30, 2007 4:06 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 16:06
23. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 4:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
And which side of the political spectrum does the NEA kowtow to, as well as most teachers?
You really don't wanna talk about the sad state of education, now do you?
23. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 4:09 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 16:09
24. Posted by WildWillie | June 30, 2007 4:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Clinton or Gore will be the best candidate for the republicans. Either one will motivate the conservative base and the independents to vote for anybody but___? ww
24. Posted by WildWillie | June 30, 2007 4:14 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 16:14
25. Posted by jainphx | June 30, 2007 4:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Bring um on,Ones a loony the other is Hillery,what more could a Rep.ask for.
25. Posted by jainphx | June 30, 2007 4:30 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 16:30
26. Posted by Tony | June 30, 2007 4:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Uh oh, it looks like this news is in need of a little dramatic chipmunk.
26. Posted by Tony | June 30, 2007 4:35 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 16:35
27. Posted by bryanD | June 30, 2007 7:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Bad News for Hillary: 52% of Americans Won't Vote for Her No Matter What_Kim P"
Earth to Kim: Hillary doesn't need 52% to win. Who was the last to break 50%? HW or Reagan?
Of course, Jumbo Dwarf (a weak candidate) won't win even the Democratic nomination because Gore has been laying the logistical groundwork for his party coronation for the past 6 months (so the GOP has bigger problems ahead than it realizes).
Adjust your sights! Windage x Elevation
I'm with Gator, though: Paul '08!
Kinda OT: Only YOU can prevent more Bush Inbreeds in the GOP!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1674295
27. Posted by bryanD | June 30, 2007 7:38 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 19:38
28. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 7:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
George W. Bush, 2004.
Man, you are a dimwit.
28. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 7:43 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 19:43
29. Posted by D. Doré | June 30, 2007 8:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Didn't Bill win both of his presidential bids with less than 50% each time?
The Republican party has to find a strong candidate that stands firm to bring out the conservative vote, and not a candidate who courts the middle or left.
The middle will join with a conservative candidate who has a great plan of action, and the strength and fortitude to carry it out.
Has anyone read: Winning The Future, or read about the plan that Mr. Gingrich has spent over 10 years putting together?
Eventhough I really like Duncan Hunter, I don't think there's a candidate on this Earth that could accomplish more good to change America for the better than Newt Gingrich. He's the only one with a comprehensive plan, not just political pitches.
29. Posted by D. Doré | June 30, 2007 8:40 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 20:40
30. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 9:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This post brought to you by the Gingrich '08 Committee.
30. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 9:08 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 21:08
31. Posted by bryanD | June 30, 2007 9:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dore': I hear where your coming from, but Newt's POTENTIAL is low (lower than his recognized political ability). It's the double divorcing-the-bed-ridden-wife thing. It's No Go, and he knows it (which is why he WILL NOT enter the race), and if he does, he'll crash and burn like Mitt Romney's dad.
Think about Ron Paul. He's an MD and a USAF veteran with a political philosophy based on the US Constitution. Plus he never let freedom for Americans get theoretically waylaid by permissive Open Border policies. In fact, he's adamantly against the North American Union/SPP.gov subversiveness of BOTH parties.
Check his policy positions; what you see is what you get.
31. Posted by bryanD | June 30, 2007 9:11 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 21:11
32. Posted by kim | June 30, 2007 9:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Actually, Rob, I'm sort of hoping Bloomberg might siphon off Clinton money and energy.
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32. Posted by kim | June 30, 2007 9:22 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 21:22
33. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 9:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I note that bryand[imwit] completely ignores where I proved him wrong about his 50% claim above.
Typical. Soooooo typical.
33. Posted by C-C-G | June 30, 2007 9:25 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 21:25
34. Posted by bryanD | June 30, 2007 10:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"I note that bryand[imwit] completely ignores where I proved him wrong about his 50% claim above.
Typical. Soooooo typical.
Posted by: C-C-G"
All Bow to Pencil Dick!
34. Posted by bryanD | June 30, 2007 10:23 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 22:23
35. Posted by jdavenport | June 30, 2007 11:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yeah, Gingrich would be my top pick - if he was electable. Though lately there are hints he's been around power too long.
I hope you're right about Bloomberg and Clinton, kim. She is a truly nasty. I was pretty bummed out to see Spielberg support her. I always thought him to be a lefty, but not a true believer. More a democratic socialist.
35. Posted by jdavenport | June 30, 2007 11:04 PM |
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Posted on June 30, 2007 23:04
36. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | July 1, 2007 12:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Bryand, I heard you have a mouth like a pencil sharpener. Probably just a rumor. Hillary will be fun to run against. Ask her what her brother is planning to charge for pardons. Ask if they plan to return the "w's" they stole when they left. Ask them how much support they are getting from the Chinese Communists this time. Any Republican candidate that cannot defeat Hillary Clinton on the issues, in any debate, on any topic deserves losing. Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney will tear her a new one. The bitch is a communist. It doesn't take a village, it takes parents who give a shit.l
36. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | July 1, 2007 12:41 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 00:41
37. Posted by D. Doré | July 1, 2007 12:42 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
byranD,
Our nation has so far elected a person who used the lamest excuse about smoking pot, and then re-elected him so he could lie to everyone about his infidelity to his wife.
Then, they elected a man who had previous problems with cocaine and alcohol, who didn't deny any of it.
I think they can handle a person who's been divorced twice.
Also, you missed earlier in the post where I talked about the middle following a conservative. The only conservative nature exemplified in Ron Paul is the length of his name.
As for Mr. Gingrich, I caught a televised seminar of his about 2 years ago, and was completely blown away with not only his knowledge of how the goverment works and fails, but also plausible solutions to implement to fix them. I haven't agreed with every one of his opinions, and I'm not saying he's a Reagan clone, but surely until Newt, there hasn't been a candidate since Reagan that has had as detailed and realistically accomplishable, a plan.
Why would anyone vote for Ron Paul when they can just vote for a democrat? At least then they'd get all the cool bumper stickers.
37. Posted by D. Doré | July 1, 2007 12:42 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 00:42
38. Posted by bryanD | July 1, 2007 2:06 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dore', Gingrich divorced his wives while in their sickbeds (cancer for one, the other, not sure). That's LOW.
Plus, Gingrich is a draft-deferring coward.
Ron Paul isn't. Honor. Duty. etc...
38. Posted by bryanD | July 1, 2007 2:06 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 02:06
39. Posted by Jim Addison | July 1, 2007 4:06 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Larkin's prediction has more chance of coming true than most of his prognostications. If Gore wants to get in and run hard and spend enough of his own money to do it, he could win. Democrats are wary of Hillary and beginning to see the bloom coming off the Obama rose. Edwards has the image they want, but lacks substance and ability (other than the ability to pander shamelessly, not an altogether useless one in politics). Richardson has all the charisma of Dick Cheney, without the substance.
Gore could walk away with the nomination, given his strong leftward march since losing the 2000 election. He would have practically no chance in the general election with his current platform, though. He's gone so far away from the mainstream that he appeals to the far-left nut cases who troll here, for example.
39. Posted by Jim Addison | July 1, 2007 4:06 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 04:06
40. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | July 1, 2007 5:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Plus, Gingrich is a draft-deferring coward."
Yet this inbred bed wetter has no problem steam cleaning the oval office for his draft dodging sexual predator president BJ Clinton. Isn't that right bryanDumb ass?
40. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | July 1, 2007 5:11 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 05:11
41. Posted by WildWillie | July 1, 2007 9:08 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Plus John Edwards has to send his wife out to fight for him. ww
41. Posted by WildWillie | July 1, 2007 9:08 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 09:08
42. Posted by kim | July 1, 2007 10:14 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
bD, why is RP a truther?
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42. Posted by kim | July 1, 2007 10:14 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 10:14
43. Posted by C-C-G | July 1, 2007 11:29 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Jim, I gotta respectfully disagree. I think Hillary knows where too many of the skeletons are buried in DC for the Party of the Donkey not to hand her the nomination on a silver platter.
43. Posted by C-C-G | July 1, 2007 11:29 AM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 11:29
44. Posted by Paul Hooson | July 1, 2007 1:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
To win an election, you only need to turn out enough of your voters to win enough states in the electoral college. In 2000, Bush proved you can lose the popular vote by a half million votes, but still win the election by bringing out enough of your voters in the right states. The 2004 Kerry strategy was based on winning enough votes in the electoral college only, and not the popular vote, but fell short.
I'm not a Hillary fan. But she could pull it off.
44. Posted by Paul Hooson | July 1, 2007 1:03 PM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 13:03
45. Posted by C-C-G | July 1, 2007 1:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Especially if the Dems get their vans out again and shuttle illegal aliens between polling places voting in dead people's names. That is why the Dems keep opposing any law that would require a photo ID to vote, isn't it, Hooson?
45. Posted by C-C-G | July 1, 2007 1:27 PM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 13:27
46. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | July 1, 2007 4:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Democrats have carne asada parties where people from one city pretend to buy a house in a neighboring city so they can vote for the host of the party , THE MAYOR!
CRIMINAL FRAUDS EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.
46. Posted by Rob LA Ca. | July 1, 2007 4:58 PM |
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Posted on July 1, 2007 16:58
47. Posted by kim | July 2, 2007 2:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh, my God, Paul, if they'd only known that the man reporting for duty didn't include trying to win the popular vote among his assumed and appointed tasks.
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47. Posted by kim | July 2, 2007 2:41 AM |
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Posted on July 2, 2007 02:41