Barack or Hillary in '08

[Perky]

Poll question: Barack or Hillary in '08

Assuming it was down to those two.

Who dom you see yourself supporting in a PRIMARY election with the knowledge that your PRIMARY was going to determine the nominee.

Poll result (74 votes)
Hillary Rodham Clinton	(10 votes, 14%)	Vote
Barack Obama	(33 votes, 45%)	Vote
I am voting Green	(6 votes, 8%)	Vote
I am packing my suitcases	(25 votes, 34%)	Vote

[SoFlaJet]

1. Neither

Al Gore or anybody but Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama-they're two candidates that would surely give the republicans another 4 years to continue on the ruination of this once great republic

[goddess40]

3. I agree - neither

Al Gore would be my first choice paired with Feingold, Edwards or Clark. Hillary has too much baggage and is a women (I think the US isn't ready for that yet) and Barack doesn't have enough experience - YET but I look for him to run in the future.

[hippiechick]

12. Me Three !

Gore/Feingold.

[SoFlaJet]

16. I'm right there with you goddess

Gore is my number one...what gets me is how the MSM is trying to pick OUR candidates for '08-they've been doing nothing but showing they do NOT have our best interests at heart-why should we listen to them now?

[goddess40]

30. The right and the MSM are always setting the terms

and the Dem's follow right along fighting about how the terms have been set or defined instead of calling it bullshit and defining things ourselves. Although it is hard to do because MSM and the right are interchangeable and the media decides what gets air time and what doesn't - damn liberal media!

[ClassWarrior]

2. Get your ass out on the pavement and start door-knocking.

You apparently have lots of time to kill. Sheesh.

NGU.

[Perky]

5. Ha

Actually I was dovetailing off another thread about what would happen first a woman apresident or a black president.

And oh BTW. I have registered about 800 voters this year. And will be a poll worker on November 7th. I do my share...but it still is not nearly enough to drive the repukes out of office,

[SoFlaJet]

18. what the hell does that mean?

you don't know me or what I do or don't do...maybe YOU should step away from the computer and practice what you preach.

[OKNancy]

4. You couldn't vote Green in a primary election if you are a Dem

Taking the poll seriously, voting Green or packing my bags is not an option. I realize that those responses are supposed to be clever, but if in reality it was down to those two, I'd probably go for Clinton.
I actually like Obama fine, but she has the money and the name and would probably do better.

In the real world, not DU-land, if it came to those two, I'd make a pragmatic choice.

[Perky]

9. Well....I meant voting green in November

but point well taken.

[Clark2008]

27. Actually, in most of the South, you can vote in any dang

primary you want: you don't have to be registered with a party to vote in a primary.

I voted for that idiot Bob Corker in the Republican primary because I knew the fundies didn't like him and he wasn't the neo-cons first choice either: polls indicated Ford had the best chance against Corker, so hubby and I voted for that imbicile as a tactical maneuver. Ford was unopposed in his primary, so it made no nevermind.

[noonwitch]

6. Hillary has more experience

I know her time as first lady doesn't count in a career sense, but it does count in a presidential race.

I like Obama, and I think his time to run will come. He is an amazing speaker and a good family guy to boot. But he is young and relatively new to national politics. If the dem nominee in 2008 doesn't win, then Obama should definitely run in 2012.

[kedrys]

7. Gore/Clark

It's the only way to fly. Hilary has too much baggage, Obama is too unseasoned (for now).

The RW already ripped Gore to shreds when he ran - Gore running again gives the neocons no traction whatsoever. And Wes Clark can handle himself.

[SoFlaJet]

19. That's a damn good ticket kedrys

I like the way you're thinking

[Zensea]

8. In the primary - neither

If one of them gets the nomination, then I will give my support.
By the way, I HATE these false polls. There are going to be more than two candidates in the primary.
The assumption that it will be down to those two is ridiculous.

[Perky]

11. Actually, there will come a point when it will be down to two

After the first wave of primaries we will be down to four after Super Tuesday we will wittle down to three. anoither week it will be two...anybody who stays in without a victory at that point is quixotic. Gore, Edwards and Kucinich come to mind.

I am not convinced that either of these two would be in the final two, HRC because while she has money might not have a victory until the mid-March.

My concern about Obama is that he has never really been tested in a political campaign. He is as smooth as they come and seems unflappable. There is mudslinging in a primary, I am just not sure he will not be everyon's punching bag and if he will respond in kind.

[blm]

28. After the series of debates, I only see Kerry and Clark. Add Gore IF he runs.

I don't see anyone else with the chops and drive to dominate the debates over Kerry and Clark - or Gore, IF he runs.

Personally, I think Obama is smart enough to know what he DOESN'T know at this point, and won't put himself in that position.

[savemefromdumbya]

10. Hillary

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. In a PRIMARY? Neither.

[Orrin_73]

14. It seems to me that you want to loose big

[SoFlaJet]

21. Thank you Orrin 73

a Hillary Clinton candidacy is a neo-con's wet dream come true-so is an Obama-I hate that the world is this way in the 21st century but realistically speaking you think Bubba Lunch-box from Arkansas is gonna vote for a black man? Even the most liberal wing of the democratic party isn't THAT naive

[peace13]

15. Neither...

I go with Feingold, I like his style and whoever we run must be pure on the Iraq issue. Not sure on Vice yet. President Gore would be one of my contenders for sure! Peace, Kim

[kurth]

17. None of the above

[berni_mccoy]

20. NEITHER: GORE/CLARK 2008!

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[Lowell]

22. Neither

If that is all the choice we would have in 08 I would simply not bother to vote. Obama is good but inexperienced, Hillary is the Repubs choice because they know they could galvanize their base against her and win.

[Clark2008]

23. Wes Clark: someone who could flip a red state or two.

We HAVE to do that both to win and to start uniting the county and repairing the divisiveness the Republicans have wrought on the USA.

[keta11]

24. Hey, how about NEITHER????

[bryant69]

25. Assuming it was down to those two I'd support Obama

but it damn well better not come down to those two.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[pooja]

26. If it was an only choice between the two... Obama.

[Strawman]

29. Given those choices, Obama

I'm still figuring him out, but I actually watched him on an Oprah my wife had tivoed last night and liked him. But he was speaking on some pretty broad generalities. It's fine to talk about general common values, but when it comes down to brass tacks is he going to just be another DLC'er? So far I've gotten mixed signals, but at least he has a compelling vision and a compelling narrative about the direction America ought to be tending toward. So even if all things were equal and he has some DLC tendencies, I give the nod to Obama over Hillary because he has the "vision thing" and can articulate that vision better than she can. To me Hillary always sounds like she reciting a list of policy changes to a room full of people with broken hearing aids. There's nothing inspirational about it.

[NewJeffCT]

31. it's a week & a day to election day 2006

I have no thoughts beyond that.

[TahitiNut]

32. It's NEVER "down to those two" ... not in this country. YET.

I run short of patience with polls that hypothesize an election (either primary or general) and then, in a heavy-handed "Sophie's Choice" style, attempt to impose an authoritarian boundary on what I've always seen as an essential electoral liberty: the write-in vote. "Other" is always an option in a liberal democracy. Besmirching conscience in casting such a liberty as "packing suitcases" or choosing to self-excommunicate is, imho, antithetical to some fundamental tenets of a democracy.

[Blue_In_AK]

33. Neither, please.

[Cascadian]

34. Obama? Maybe. Hillary? HELL NO!

I would vote Green or Socialist then if Hillary won the nomination. I have been banging my head against the wall everytime the Democrats nominate somebody who is not going to be a fighter. Hillary Clinton would spell the end of the Democratic Party if she gets nominated.


John

[Hamlette]

35. My dream ticket is Clark/Obama

Clark for the experience and charisma, Obama to excite the "younger generation." I'd like to see someone run before "all the king's men" have made them too jaded.

[Crabby Appleton]

36. Clark

[Perky]

37. Intersting results

Although I am not sure it is an qaccurate reflection of DU in general. Not much support for HRC that's for sure.

[Stephanie]

38. GORE

If he won't run, then EDWARDS.

[AZBlue]

39. Need another option: TOO BUSY CONCENTRATING ON NEXT TUESDAY

Get back to me after we've taken back Congress.