"Democrat" Beats "Republican" in Presidential Poll by Eighteen Points

For the WP, Cillizza parses a "Diageo/Hotline poll in which the sample was asked whether they would support a generic Democrat or a generic Republican for president if the election were held today....Forty-seven percent chose the Democratic candidate while 29 percent went with the Republican....an 18-point differential."

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knows where to set the voting machine software bias.

When he was up for re-election. Aahnold's numbers were as low as 38% a month before the Dem primary.

And when the generic Dem became an actual Democrat who voters could compare to Aahnold, Aahnold won 56% of the vote - - and the actual Democrat, Phil Angelides got only 39% of the vote.

Most people don't even know who's running, much less which ticket they'll support (unless they're diehard partisans).

It is more important to win a majority of the Electoral College than to win the popular vote. See Election 2000. You need to find the candidate who can break the Republican lock on the Electoral College. Otherwise, you are just drinking the Kool-aid.

:kick: HART 2008! :kick:

and also drew the great majority of independent votes and former Nader votes. But corporate crap rags like WaPo never comment about THAT. They just accept the "official results" of the 2004 election, as tallied by electronic voting systems, run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations.

If you look back at Feb. '03, when FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT of the American people opposed the invasion of Iraq, and at other stats along the way--such as 63% opposed to torture "under any circumstances" (May '04)--you begin to suspect that that 18% differential that is being detected now is not such big news. We started out as a majority, got a fascist coup shoved down our throats in 2004, with secret electronic vote tabulation, and now MORE people have joined us. And on some issues, like the war, it's not 50/30, it's 75/25!

And still the war goes on.
And still Bush/Cheney are in office, planning MORE war, committing more crimes, and stealing yet more billions from our children's future.
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