When voters take a close look, they realize Mrs. Bill Clinton is not qualified to be president, can't give a straitforward answer on any topic (witha consistent accent), is running a mean and dirty campaign, and is owned by corporate special interests. Voters in Iowa are seeing it, now New Hampshire, South Carolina soon. If this trend continues, my faith in the American voter may be restored.

We don't need more of the Bushes or the Clintons. Time to move forward.

I can think of two ways the hostage thing might have an effect. Women, especially those who support Clinton, are fed up with abusive men---it is often a part of their lives, to one extent or another. This could strengthen their emotional ties to her.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I hated the manipulative ad she ran about trust---using a man in his forties who called her for help with his son's bone marrow transplant---I thought it was irrelevant to the issues of trust and healthcare----and to that, i would now add it sets a bad example of how to deal with big personal issues---call a bigshot and have them fix it---but I doubt that would resonate or connect for many.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

splain this logic from the writers at rasmussen----the 24 point gap from tuesday in their national tracking polls is down to 9 today----yet Hillary still has a commanding lead????--------------------------

(In New Hampshire)Clinton’s seven-point advantage is down from a ten-point lead in early November. In October, Clinton held a sixteen-point advantage over Obama. A month earlier, Clinton was ahead by twenty-three percentage points.

kjoe said: "Women, especially those who support Clinton, are fed up with abusive men---it is often a part of their lives, to one extent or another. This could strengthen their emotional ties to her."

If women who have been abused by men are honest, they will also see that Hillary has been an enabler and dishonest protector of one of the world's most famous misogynists.

There is a considerable public record now accusing Bill Clinton of being a serial, chronic exploiter, abuser of women or worse. It says Hillary led efforts to minimize the impact of Clinton's female accusers with the famous "bimbo patrol" including private eyes Anthony Pellicano and Jack Palladino. These accounts say that Hillary was party to efforts to intemidate women with whom Bill had been involved, and to accuse the victims.
We also know that both Bill and Hillary have lied publicly about Bill and other women.

Bill and Hillary (standing by her man) on CBS "60 Minutes" on January 26 1992,
www.angelfire.com/wa/starreport/60min.html

Bill in his Paula Jones lawsuit deposition January 17, 1998

Bill in a televised press conference on January 26, 1998

Hillary (standing by her man) on the NBC "Today Show" on January 27, 1998, blaming the "false" Lewinsky accusations on the "vast right wing conspiracy."
www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/27/hillary.today

Bill in Grand Jury testimony on August 17, 1998.

Hillary in her "autobiography" Living History (2003) when she insists she had no inkling that her husband had lied to her about Monica until the day before his grand-jury testimony.

A few women may not admire Hillary's record on standing up for abused women:
Maybe Paula Jones, Harsha Scott, Linda Jones, Sally Perdue, Kathleen Wiley, Gennifer Flowers, Dolly Kyle Browning, Juanita Broaddrick, Monica Lewinsky, Susan McDougal, numerous White House staffers (wink, wink), Denise Rich, Beth Dozoretz, Belinda Stronach, Segolene Royal, an unnamed "forty-something divorcee in Chappaqua, N.Y" AND... have a different view of Hillary.

Do women really see Hillary Clinton as admirable on women's issues such as abuse?

Umm, none of the foregoing has much to do with the Iowa poll.

Because the poor bastard was clearly mentally disturbed, rather than someone with a political agenda, I doubt that the hostage thing will do more than give her a two or three point five day bump.

She's now down below ten in the Rasmussen national daily after a blip in the two days before and after Turkey day that seems to indicate that her supporters were more likely to be at home while Obama's were more likely to be on the road. (That would probably be the age difference thing at work).

All in all, I'm predicting we're in for even more panic-driven lashing out and flailing from her campaign in the next two weeks. (Anyone who doesn't think her oppo people were behind that John Solomon hit job last week is, well, naive, to use a word Hillaroids used to be very fond of.)

2008 Presidential Election Weekly Poll

http://www.votenic.com

The Only Poll That Matters.
Results Posted Every Tuesday Evening.

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Of course this poll was also taken before another poll came out with similar numbers. The next polls, however, will be taken with people being aware of these new numbers showing a tightening race in NH.

And that is important because among the results reported by Rasmussen was that 54% of the respondents believe Clinton will win the primary. If the latest polls cause that number to go down, then her numbers might go down further in the next poll, and so on until any current bandwagon effect is eliminated.

Here are links to the new DM Register Iowa poll.

Democrats
Republicans

That makes it official as far as I'm concerned. This makes three polls out of the last five to give Obama a point or two over Clinton and I tend to regard the DM Register/Seltzer poll as the gold standard of Iowa polls anyway. So I tend to think that's probably right. It will be interesting to see what John Edwards does. It's also kind of interesting that the Register has done three polls this year and so far the lead has changed hands in each of them.

colonpowwow,

Just a casual reminder, but at this point in 2004, Kerry was down over 20 points to Dean in NH. Of course he ended up winning by 12, well over a 30 point swing.

Anonymous at 4:40 pm:

Any bets on whether Democrats are more sick of the shocking sexual behaviors of the Clintons or sick of hearing about it now that the Republicans are on the way back out?

I could use the money. As a founding member of the NOW chapter in Milwaukee, my question is only "how did (s)he vote and carry water on the policy issues important to women?".

The inquiring-minds-want-to-know stuff that you tender is as relevant to making good public policy as Keith Richard's reprobate behavior is to making good love songs.