Electability and 2008
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.
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.