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The Most Polarizing Prez Candidate Is…Not Hillary

Over at Liberal Oasis Bill Scher highlights the stupidity of the hundreds of news stories and opinion pieces of the past year where reporters and pundits clutch their pearls at the very bad idea of Hillary’s candidacy–bad because she’s such a polarizing figure. Well, ABC News and the Washington Post commissioned a poll to see just how polarizing Hillary is. Surprise, surprise..not so much.

The Most Polarizing Prez Candidate Is…Not Hillary

Here’s some poll data that I don’t believe has received much attention.

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ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL. Sept. 27-30, 2007

“If [see below] wins the Democratic/Republican nomination for president would you definitely vote for him/her in the general election for president in 2008, would you consider voting for him/her or would you definitely not vote for him/her?”

PERCENT SAYING “DEFINITELY WOULD NOT”

Obama — 39%
Clinton — 41%
Edwards — 43%
Giuliani — 44%
McCain — 45%
Thompson — 54%
Romney — 57%

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What’s does that mean?

1. Sen. Hillary Clinton is no more polarizing than other Dems, and less polarizing than every leading Republican.

Read the rest of Scher’s parsing of this poll here.

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3 Responses to “The Most Polarizing Prez Candidate Is…Not Hillary”

  1. Jemaleddin Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 5:46 am

    I just hope you dems do a good job of picking somebody for me to vote for. I don’t trust the greens to do it, and we don’t have primaries, so it’s all on your shoulders.

  2. skank Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 7:30 am

    I think we’re in a good spot–perhaps Jupiter has aligned with Mars. I think our four top candidates are all winners. Here’s how I rank them personally:

    1. Edwards
    2. Richardson
    3. Obama
    4. Clinton

    At the moment it looks like Clinton is the favorite and may prevail. That’s OK too but I wish she were more progressive. I have two big issues this time around.

    1. Getting out of stupid Republican wars.
    2. And my perennial top issue of universal healthcare

  3. Jemaleddin Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    In fact, it looks like your list is almost the opposite of their chances for getting elected.

    As somebody who spends way too high a percentage of his income on prescriptions, doctors, labs and hospitals, I would LOVE universal healthcare. I don’t know which makes us look more backward:

    1. no universal healthcare
    2. capital punishment
    3. still not using the metric system.

    Although I’m personally glad to see that we’re holding strong on #3 with our pals in Liberia and Myanmar, it is a little stupid at this day and age.