Clinton – Giuliani Lead in Latest Poll
Tired of this stuff yet?
Nice way to start out the year, but it\’s January 2007 so it means very little.
On the day that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton officially entered the 2008 presidential
sweepstakes, a new Washington Post-ABC News survey shows her with a wide lead
over her potential Democratic rivals.Clinton took 41 percent in a hypothetical primary field against 12
other Democrats, far ahead of Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) at 17 percent, former
Sen. John Edwards (N.C) at 11 percent and former Vice President Al
Gore at 10 percent. The party\’s 2004 nominee — Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) —
received 8 percent support. No other candidate crested three percent.Those numbers are virtually unchanged from a Post-ABC survey in December
that showed Clinton at 39 percent, Obama at 17 percent and Edwards at 12 percent.
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Next up, Bill
Richardson is set to announce his presidential campaign tomorrow
on \”This Week.\”
Talk about upstaging Mr. Bush\’s SOTU speech. With James Webb giving the Democratic
response, old George will be blown out off the news cycle. Add to it Gov. Brian Schweitzer (one of my favorites – of Montana) and you can fughettaboutit.
The reality is everyone wants to put Mr. Bush\’s presidency behind us. Add to
this fact the blowout in November and you get accelerated \’08 thinking that\’s going to make for a very long 2007. A lot of candidates won\’t have the political stamina for it. They\’ll simply get crushed by the pace.
Meanwhile… ouch.
There is still more bad news for the president in the poll: Sixty-two percent
of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country.
For the first time, more than half of the respondents (53 percent) disapprove
of his approach to deterring terrorism. More than half of the public thinks
he is not “honest and ethical” (54 percent) and lacks “strong
leadership qualities” (57 percent). Just before the last election, 55
percent said Bush was honest and 63 percent saw him as a strong leader.
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