….The 2008 presidential primaries please turn out the lights? It seems that John "Should Have Got A Helmet" Kerry's support for the 2008 has dropped into low single digits. He's not down as far as some of the other presumed candidates, but he's well below even the dreaming stage.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, remains the frontrunner for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008, with more than twice the support of any of her potential rivals, a new CNN poll shows.
Support for Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, dropped 5 percentage points in the past month from 12 percent to 7 percent, according to the nationwide poll of registered Democrats conducted by Opinion Research Corporation over the weekend. Worse news for Kerry is that a majority of those polled said they do not want to see the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee win the party's nomination in 2008.
Kerry, in an interview on Fox News Sunday, said he would make a decision in early 2007 on whether to run for president again. The Massachusetts senator also insisted that his "botched joke" about President Bush's plan for Iraq right before the midterm elections will not influence his decision on whether to make a second bid for his party's nomination.
"The parlor game of who's up, who's down, today or tomorrow, if I listened to that stuff, I would never have won the nomination," Kerry said.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 33%
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 15%
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards 14%
Former Vice President Al Gore 14%
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry 7%
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark 4%
Delaware Sen. Joe Biden 3%
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson 3%
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh 2%
Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack 1%
Let's face it, nobody really believed he was a viable candidate before he stuck his foot firmly into his mouth in the week before the election. But judging by the precipitous drop in his numbers, Theresa must have jumped behind another candidate.
UPDATE: The Political Pit Bull: Proving that 7% of Democrats are totally nuts. Mac's Mind: Bring (Hillary) On!
Obama has done nothing whatsoever to deserve such a position of power yet Democrats rate him second to Hillary no doubt due to the massive image makers who are building Obama’s career.
Hillary will win the Dem primary since she has many friends in Hollywood and mainstream media to uplift she position.
It is freaky to see just how powerful Big Brother is and even freakier that a large percentage of Americans actually obey Big Brother’s command.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/11/obamas_house_de.html
I think I posted that here once before. It has a lot of links to articles in the Chicago press and, IMO, is a fascinating story. Obama wants to buy a house and the seller is insisting that a separate land parcel be sold at the same time so Obama contacts a Chicago sleazy operator already known to be under investigation. The operator’s wife closes on the parcel at full listed price on the same day that Obama closes on the house at $300,000 off the listed price. Then some more funny business about Obama buying a small piece of the land parcel and a fence.
One of those links has some long quotes from Obama where he says repeatedly that he’s “not clear” about how it all came about.
This is why he won’t run for President. The operator is under indictment now and Obama is obviously nervous about what the guy might say in a plea deal to Fitzgerald & Co.