Which Canidate Do You Hate the Least?

We begin with this poll by Rasmussen Reports.
Survey of 800 Likely Voters

April 9-12, 2008
This poll shows a couple of things. The first is that people like Obama. Well more that he has few people who don't don't like him than you're average politician. In part this is because he is being treated lightly by both the american electorate and the media, and in part because his newness to the political sceen and his apeals to general platitudes of inspirational leadership and post partisan politics without an appeal to specifics.

The second thing is that for those people who think that Gingrich will ride to the conservative base's rescue (including me in my previous post) it is important to realize that he is even more polarizing than Hillary! If you are going to figure out who is going to be the republican canidate you have to get to the bottom of a simple question: How afraid are republicans that they are going to lose? Because if at the end of the day republicans look at the candidates and think I'm voting for the electable one Gingrich is out and Rudy is in.

But I still doubt that it will play out that way. Maybe in a state like Iowa where the politicos are the only ones that go to the caucuses Rudy will win, but in states with primaries the base is going to turn to someone that they trust a little better. I mean if all you do is watch Fox, and listen to Limbaugh I don't think you get the sense that conservative power is waning, and consequently won't be willing to hold thier nose and vote for the candiate that has the best chance of winning.



Moving on the the Democratic debate, I watched most of it streemed on MSNBC's