Former Vice President Al Gore is New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s worst nightmare in the nation”s first primary, a new poll shows.
If Mr. Gore got into the 2008 presidential nomination contest, he would edge out Mrs. Clinton in New Hampshire 32 percent to 26 percent and defeat the rest of the Democratic contenders, says a 7NEWS-Suffolk University poll of likely voters.
Absent a Gore entry, Mrs. Clinton is the clear front-runner among declared Democratic candidates, with 37 percent, up from 28 percent in the same poll taken in March.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is second at 19 percent, followed by both John Edwards and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson at 9 percent.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Gore has a chance if Hillary is running, because they were both involved in scandals, so they can’t be used to hurt him the way Kerry did. A week before Gore dropped out of the 2004 race, Kerry’s local Boston Globe ran stories on airline security, and how Gore watered down security recommendations after the TWA crash. Kerry seems to know a little more, as he’s twice on TV referred to it as a ‘bombing’
#50 – Had plenty of gyros – yummy. Always wanted to find a shop named Hogan’s Gyros 🙂
#51 – I use Hitlery more out of poetntial that anything she’s done so far, but it also breaks up the monotony of always using Hillarius. I could just as easily use BucketOfFesteringBoilJuice but no noe would be sure if I was referring to her, Algore, or Kerry so it’s a matter of clarification.
Who says the President has to get 50% of the vote? I’d much prefer to have 5-6 candidates from “major” parties all have a chance. We’d be more likely to get a better result than we get currently ending up with just 2 candidates from the Democratic and Republican divisions of the the American Political Party Corporation (TM).
Or for another option, if you want direct voter count, go to a ranked election: 10 candidates, each voter ranks them 1-10. Highest total ranking wins. You might be able to more effectively vote against certain people that way.
#51 again – “But its the rural vote that keeps the largely metropolitan gay community from getting the state to recognize their natural right to marry.” – Is it really? Those types of referendums are straight up popular vote. Since the city population outnumber the rural population in many states and is just crossing 50% nationwide, there must be plenty of city folk voting against as well. I don’t see any tyranny going on.
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