Reply #21: This is all silly

[Tom Rinaldo]

Jerry Brown was high in the National polls at this point before the 1992 election and no one hardly was talking about Clinton. Of course Warner's numbers will go up if he gets more press and they have been down because he hasn't been getting it up until now. But it is also silly to make comments like no one outside of DU knows or cares about Clark. Only a handful of Democrats nation wide score above one or two percent in polls and Clark is in that handful. He gets about as much poll support currently as Joe Biden and Biden seemingly has an iron clad contract to appear on some National political TV talk show every other Sunday. Clark regularly out polls folks like Richardson and Bayh and Feingold, so there is no point being petty about this. Clark is in the mix in the real world and it is very early. Some people were very early in Jimmy Carters camp and they ended up being right. Some folks were very early in Bruce Babbitt's camp and ended up being wrong. People get drawn early to potential candidates for different reasons, but who is polling high or low three years out is just about the worst reason possible.