(Rasmussen) Poll: Warren And Brown Still Tied In Massachusetts

[karynnj]

15. I think Carville's reputation is overrated

I think that Clinton was a very talented politician - and GHWB was at 33% by election day. In addition, Perot was in the mix. The main impact of Perot was likely in early 1992 when he was out there day after day blasting GHWB, but by election day, a large portion of the population thought he was extremely weird. Yet Clinton did not win by a landslide.

Given all this, is it hard to understand why his campaign manager was considered to be excellent.

Then look at 2008. Carville was helping the woman, who was said to be inevitable - and she started in 2005 with about 45% of the primary vote - enough to almost certainly win - and the party and media support. I knew Democrats - almost happy that Kerry lost, because now (eyes light up) "we get Hillary" - and they did not understand why I was devastated. So, how was he on the 2008 campaign - pretty bad.

Not to mention, Carville is selective in the Democrats he helps - he was horrible to Kerry - spending his show making snarky jokes about Bush that made people happy, but did not help. The only time he spoke of Kerry - was to complain that he was not Bill Clinton. He seemed to have spent no time learning anything about Kerry. Had he done so, as one of teh few Democrats on TV, he could have helped Kerry.