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gizachild
It is clear to me that Clinton is the democratic candidate that can beat McCain.
In the general election Obama's absolute approach against the war-no matter what- will not sit well with many of the more conservative voters
As Obama is no better prepared to deal with the economy than McCain is republicans and independents have no incentive to vote for a democrat.
While enthusiam for Obama may make people feel warm and fuzzy, it worries me that the man who might be our next president talks about what he might do if the Chinese don't "behave" (a statement he made during one of the earlier debates- this is an arrogant and insulting way to speak of any people especially a group that is over a billion strong and has had ten thousand years of a fabulous culture.)
What is clear is that you are wildly out of touch. First, the Iraq war: it's unpopular outside of the core 20% of Republican Kool-Aid drinkers, and no Democrat is going to pick up those votes. I'd be worried if they tried. Secondly, despite decades of anti-tax propaganda, polls show Americans actually are willing to have their taxes raised to bring down the deficit. Whereas McCain wants to make the Bush tax cuts that he once decried permanent, further tarnishing his "straight talk" image. Finally: you're seriously going to harp on China when Clinton voted for Kyl-Lieberman, which labeled a foreign army a terrorist organization? Bwhaahahaha.
MusicRowDem
Obama has had a pass so far
Just wait until the slime machine gets through with him, starting with outright lies,
Not gonna work, sorry. The GOP has cried wolf for far too long, and the Democrats (at least Obama at any rate) have finally realized that the old "don't dignify the attack with a response" is a sure ticket to losing an election. Look how easily he handled John Howard when the Australian PM attacked him on Iraq. Also remember that the GOP tried to scare voters with the boogyman of Speaker Pelosi - it didn't work. She, like Obama, was new to the national scene and they didn't have enough time to damage her.
Whereas Hillary started this election already damaged. Attacks that wouldn't stick on Obama wills stick on Hillary because of her high negatives and she's been damaged by 16 years of Republican propaganda.
fjschmi
In the end, this will be a National Security election: In October, Bush will generate some sort of terrorist scare, and bin Laden will issue his pre-election video (which will be proclaimed by MSN as designed to help the Democratic president) during the 30 October-1 November period.
Hey Rip van Winkle, it's not 2004 anymore. The economy is the biggest concern for Americans right now, and the Republicans have proved that they couldn't manage an economy if their lives depended on it. If McCain tries to attack Obama on security, Obama can throw it back in his face: in the 90's, McCain strenuously called for American forces to be withdrawn from Somalia and Haiti as soon as possible. Not when the countries were stabilized, not when a political solution was reached, but as soon as possible.
ljwalker53
Poll numbers at this stage of the process are really not good indicators of what's going to happen in November.
But the variables are. Iraq is a mess, the economy is going south, and the GOP base hates McCain and Hillary.
Focusing on how unlikable Hillary Clinton is, how she will galvanize the Republican base, how she won't do well with white men, etc. is a "straw man" argument, IMO
That phrase does not mean what you think it means. And, you're wrong. 18% of Republicans in Washington state just voted for a man that dropped out of the race three days ago over McCain. And the only person in the race that the GOP base hates more than McCain is Hillary Clinton.
I mentioned in an earlier post that one of the things Republicans do incredibly well is to "package" their candidate and his issues. By the time they get through remaking John McCain he'll look as though he can walk on water...and has.
Yeah, that worked so well for them in the 2006 elections, didn't it?
And trust me, they will pull out every dirty stop, every dirty secret, every "sniff" of impropriety, every word Barack Obama has written or uttered in his life, every drug he has ever used, whether legal or not.
And as long as Obama defends himself, all those efforts will be for naught. As I pointed out above, they tried doing the same thing to Nancy Pelosi to no effect.
I ask you to think seriously about this and ask yourself which of the two Democratic candidates has the better chance of withstanding the Republican PR grinder...
Oh, no contest whatsoever: Obama.