DEMOCRATS
Biden 2%
Clinton 31%
Dodd 1.7%
Edwards 34%
Gravel 0%
Kucinich .8%
Obama 28%
Richardson 2.5%

REPUBLICANS
Giuliani 5%
Huckabee 36%
Hunter 2%
McCain 18%
Paul 5%
Romney 29%
Thompson 5%

Henry

Posted at January 3, 2008 9:10 AM in response to Happy Caucus Day!

I don't think you can blame HRC's cautious triangulation with its focus on small things on her being "scarred" by the health care fiasco of 1993; after all, the proposal that her commission produced was itself a cautious attempt to placate the insurance industry, rather than going after a single-payer plan. And she had shown her willingness to accommodate to the powers that be while employed as a business litigator at the Rose firm in Little Rock and serving on the board of Wal-Mart--where she never protested any of that entity's anti-union policies, as a recent LA Times article makes clear.

Does she have any convictions? If so, are they ones that her base actually shares?

The same is unfortunately true for her husband. The Arkansas labor movement learned over more than a decade of Bill as governor that he simply could not be trusted to do what he promised. While he may claim that his hands were tied by a Republican Congress, he campaigned enthusiastically for conservative agenda items, such as NAFTA, DOMA, welfare reform, etc. Why would Hillary Clinton be any better?

Which is not to say that Obama is necessarily better. But the fact that he may be drawing from the same well does not make me feel one bit better about HRC.

Posted at May 22, 2007 3:44 PM in response to The Hillary Exception

No, not Newt. He talks too much, even for the right-wing audiences that might swallow his blather. And who among his former followers was sorry to see him fall? Sure he can run--but so did Gary Baur and Alan Keyes.

But what about Giuliani--or is he also DOA because of evangelical opposition?

Posted at May 3, 2006 11:19 PM in response to Do the Republicans Have a 2008 Candidate? (Yes, just not who you think)