Electability and 2008
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James Joyner | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
Steve Benen tells us that early polls are meaningless but that uses them to demonstrate that “the Dems’ top-tier is plenty competitive and can absolutely win a national race.”
While noting the humor in the contradiction, I would agree on both counts.
The Republicans’ prospects will be tied, to some degree at least, with the Bush administration and Iraq. If they nominate a consensus builder, whether Rudy Giuliani or someone else, I still think they have a better-than-average chance of beating a Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. My guess is that John Edwards would be the strongest of their frontrunners but it is indeed way too early to gauge.
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Someone needs to explain the Edwards thing to me, because I am quite obviously not getting it.
The guy's a one-term senator who used to be a trial lawyer and whose primary association in the public's mind is with John Kerry.
I continue to think he is chiefly a construct of "internet Dems" and perhaps the screwy Iowa process. But I would be happy to be shown otherwise.
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