hill is nothing but a huge joke who needs some one whos going to cry every time something bad happens "boohooo boo hooo"

OBAMA DOES NOT HAVE THE EXPERIENCE TO MAKE CHANGES, HE IS STILL A LITTLE BOY IN THE PLAYGROUND OF POLITICS!!

People get REAL!!!

Obama does not have the experience it takes to make the changes he is promising – perhaps in the future, but not this election.

HILLARY TO THE HILL!!!

Obama's intentions are good but he won't be able to deliver change because he is still "wet behind the ears."

HILLARY DOES AND WILL DELIVER – ROCK ON HILLARY!!

Bill Clinton was one of the greatest Presidents of the U.S. And I'm sure Hillary would do a great job if not BETTER. Hillary Clinton on the way to the top Strike Team style baby!

Nice friggin poll. Billary comes in third, which rhymes with turd.

Yeap, here’s another poll showing Clinton ahead in the Iowa poll. Two of my daily reads are our Atlanta Journal Constitution (ajc.com) and the Internet News Agency (internetnewsagency.com). INA’s Matt Towery, (he used to be the chair for Newt’s political campaigns and now he writes a national political column and he does a web broadcast about everyday), has posted an article and a web cast discussing his Iowa Poll. It’s a interesting read as well as a good narration on the web cast.

OBOMBA IS THIRD OUT OF 3 ….CLINTON RULES AGAIN… FACT

Wake up America. Do you really want 4 more years of dynasitc politics? Furthermore- even if you do…..Hillary is not the best bet to beat the Republicans- if anything she will rally their base to unprecendented numbers. If you really want a candiate wh can win AND bring about real change- vote OBAMA. He not only has a vast amount of support among democrats, but he can seal the deal with independents and moderate republican's too. As for experience, if Obama's two decades of service on the ground as a civil rights activist is good enough for the people he fought for, its good enough for me as a middle class american trying to make ends meet. This year I'm voting my conscience instead of voting the way my fellow dems bullied me to in the last election ( which was ultimately fruitless ). They told me Kerry was more electable than Dean. %^*$! Thanks.

The absurd argument to vote for Clinton bceause she is the candiate of "experience" doesn't sit well with me. As first lady she jet-setted about with Bill and sipped tea with a few dignitaries and suddenly she's the saviour of our party? What a load of crap. Futhermore, people wake up! Clinton can't beat a republican, in fact, she will rally their base to unprecedeted numbers – ..and where will that leave us….with Mitt Romney as President? Good Lord, I might as well move to Canada now if they will have me. Even if you think she can win, Clinton voters, please ask yourselves…."What good is Clinton as our democratic nominee if all she gives us is 4 more years of dynastic politics?" This year I'm voting my conscience. I'm going to "roll the dice" and vote for Obama. He is THE candidate of hope and change in the democratic party. If two decades on the ground fighting for civil rights is good enough for the folks he fought for, then its good enough for me as a middle class american trying to make ends meet.

The people in this Country better wake up and vote right this time. We need to forget the politics and look really close at all the candidates and wonder why only a few get the top places in the debates. Who's running the show the news media (nbc,cbs,abc) or are we grown up enough to check out the voting records and background of these people ourselves. The news media are going to try and tell you who is ahead and who you should vote for but can you trust them. I think not. I have not voted for a Rep. since Reagan ran the first time and a Dem. since Geo. Wallace ran. I don't trust the true Rep or Dem I see no difference in them. Geo. Bush has proven this for 8 years. He and Mr. Clinton have gone down the same path. And it ain't an American path. Look at the candidates. Look at Mr. Ron Paul's voting record in the Congress. We have a Ron Paul sticker on our car and have had for 12 years and we don't even live in his district anymore. That is how good he is. When the Rep. and Dem. do not give you someone to vote for you have to go elsewhere or write someone in and I have done this on may occasions.
Jeri

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Why is it that I see that all Democrats on this blog are now avoiding the Iraqi war issue? Since the last report, which was about a month ago…violence had dropped to levels below that before the war began…ooops, now it's time to change your tune, now it's the economy…what's the excuse there? Let's see, oh I'm sorry, all you European legislative lovers, Germany has 10% unemployment, France almost went bankrupt with it's "Universal Healthcare", similar to that of the Old Soviet Union and now now in Cuba, just ask the Canadians, who now have a conservative Government to straighten everything out. Not only that, but I also see how ignorant some of you are because some here believe that BUSH is running again! Boy, after reading this page, I'm convinced now that there really is no thought process involved when you think like a liberal! Look, I'll admit Bush was really bad! However, it doesn't help matters when your newly elected congress (that of the famous 11% approval rating), of which I admit also "voted for change". Don't vote because your a Democrat or Republican…Vote because you still can. However, that is my fear Hillary lovers. Be honest with everyone here..She's and Edwards are Socialists (Amazing, I remember a curtain Fidel Castro who ran as a…Socialist also) Yes,i am Cuban! If you are really ready for change, vote for Hillary. I know I'm not…Good Luck!

I went to a High school here in Iowa to hear Hillary speak , after a many moments I realized I was in the schools lab looking at a dirty old fish tank. The room was packed with Hillary supporters doing the same thing.

Everyone should Look at the latest polls.

http://www.strategicvision.biz/political/iowa_poll_122807.htm

December 26-27, 2007

Barack Obama 30%
Hillary Clinton 29%
John Edwards 28%
Joseph Biden 5%
Bill Richardson 2%
Chris Dodd 1%
Dennis Kucinich 1%
Undecided 4%

i knew the clintons were up to there ways again!

Obama 08

Does CNN realize that there are other candidates running for president besides Obama and Clinton, and that neither of them can win?

Want the White House back in '08, Dems? We have one chance: JOHN EDWARDS.

Want proof? When was the last time you heard anyone in the GOP say, 'Oh! I hope the Dems nominate Edwards! That'll be easy!'

Think, people! The GOP is licking its chops for a shot at Clinton and Obama. Don't give them what they want.

Edwards '08!

You mean obama isnt a muslim terrorist?

and hillary isn't a lesbian?

Whhaaaaattt!!!

Next you'll tell me that's it all a right wing conspiracy.

Don't be Afraid To Stand Up And Just Say NO – To Obama '08

Time to take back our White House and be proud to be an American again – at home and around the world.

Dreams and hopes don't happen unless we roll up our sleeves and WORK for them!! We are not children anymore, but the future of OUR children is at stake in 2008!!

Choose wisely…

More evidence that the media is trying to wield its power and skewing numbers again. And we should listen to them because?

All democrats are a greater threat to the security and economy of this country than Osama and all of Al Queda.

Nice to see CNN still doing thier part to try and influence elections.

Although she may yet win the Iowa primary, this poll is bogus. The reason is that all other recent polls show a tight race. There wouldn't be a drastic change unless Obama had a "Howard Dean" moment.

As for Hillary's merits, there are none. She is more mendacious than LBJ and as dirty as Richard Nixon. Since completing law school 30+ years ago, she has accomplishing nothing on her own merit except be the political hitman for her husband.

Her latest statement that oil will drop in price when she is elected takes the cake. Do you really want to vote for some with such hubris and who is obvious dissembler.

Hey, CNN predicts Hillary winning again! Why am I not shocked?

But, my comment is to the guy who ranted about deficient spending, illegitimate war, etc, etc. and wants to throw the bums out… I agree.

Let's just start with Hillary. No more clintons, no more bush's…. ever. Who voted for the war, supports it, and says it will go on indefinately after she takes office?… Hillary. Explosion in the size of government? Sorry but I haven't heard Hillary talked much about that. Image of shame around the world? Umm. Excuse me but just is someone who voted for the war supposed to change attitudes? In fact, it makes her seem weak and ineffective that she's had to do this double speak to explain it.

You know, she didn't HAVE to vote for it. No one put a gun to her head and said "vote with Bush or else". She did it and even gave a remarkable speach in favor of it on the Senate floor. You should read it sometime. You would think Bush wrote it.

OK, so you want change? Let's not forget Nafta… the great "helper" to preserving jobs in the US. Hillary still won't say Bill blew it on that one. I don't see a lot of change there.

Let me ask you this. What single event MOST destroyed any chance of health care reform in the past 20 years? Yep. It was Hillary's fiasco. She acted like a dictator and it came back to bite her. Since then, no one wants to go down that road again. Well, thanks Hillary. No healthcare reform for 20 years. That's a heck of a record to run on.

So, I actually AGREE with you. Throw the bums out…. just start with HILLARY. We need to start NEW again. Take the drama out of the White House and put it back on Network TV where it belongs!

The east and west coast Hillar-ites are out for a surprise. Iowan's are way smarter than they give them credit for. I'm convinced that they'll do the right thing and realize that Hillary is the WRONG person and exactly the WRONG time.

We need to build up and come together, not to destroy. When people say they want CHANGE, the Clintons ego can't even understand what that means. Hey Bill and Hillary… Get this: The CHANGE we refer to is…. YOU!

If we MUST vote for someone in a Party, so far Huckabee is the Rep one I will consider. I do disagree with only 2 of his ideas. Jon Paul is the Dem one I would vote for.I disagree with many more of all the other candidates.Now all I need is for the media to cover all the other party's like they do Dem's and Republicans. That would be a FAIR and REAL Election!

polls are psudoscientific nonsense. outcomes can be planned.

A man who votes for Hillary is an emasculated male, with no real identity. He is a man trapped, who bends his knee at the altar of femininity with no idea what real masculinity is beyond a bunch of fat guys sitting on a couch drinking beer, farting, and eating pizza.

A man who votes for hillary is a lost man. He is a man like an old sea lion swimming in an aquarium for so many years, he can no longer remember the sea. It is nothing more than a myth, lost in history long forgotten. The liberal man is a lost man. All he knows is femininity, his own masculinity has been evaporated, and he is without identity. Pity him, for he is full of sorrow.

Mark said:
"Go Hillary go!!! By the way, right wing nut jobs, don't think for one minute that democrats will withhold their vote if Hillary is the nominee. We will support ANY democrat to get us out of this mess that the republicans have gotten us into, even if it's not our first choice."

Speak for yourself Mark. I am as liberal as they come, yet I will never vote for Hillary. I can't stomach the prospect after her positively disgusting sliming of Obama over the last 3 weeks. I will sit the 2008 vote out if she is the nominee.

For all you Hillary/Obama advocates: If you think we have fiscal irresponsibility now, you ain't seen nothing until one of them gets in the White House. By the way, I thought Dems were going to bring change from the way things are done in D.C….Looks like they haven't changed anything. They act like our money is their money and Hillary is just more of the same. What experience does she have??? What job has she held? What office other than Senator? What executive position? What program has she ever championed that was successful??? She's a Socialist who simply wants power because she thinks it owed to her. Is that your idea of qualification for the President??? If you want communism, then she is certainly your person.

Ron Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we'll see.

hope this is the case, actually.

can't bring myself to despise obama, even though i find his stance on issues inexplicable.

hillary is so easy to despise, and it's so widespread. a much better opponent for republicans . . . whom, i hope, will AVOID huckabee and mccain. giuliani or romney and we can win this thing! sanity against the hildebeast will win!

Obama oeight.

did the clintons pay for this poll?
i have never met a single person who told me that they even liked hillary, let alone that they were planning on voting for her. where are these people? real americans are scared to death of their options.
the people who think that one party is better or more legitimate than the other one are falling right into the hands of the media.

When is anyone going to wake up to the fact that all we are is mice in the politicians maze? They put out some cheese and we all scurry around to find it! Did anyone ever stop and think that if they cut taxes on small businesses and had them put that money toward health care, We could cover everyone in this country. We pay 10,000 to 12,000 quarterly in California for taxes, that would buy a lot of Health care for our employees. We are a small restaurant.
We sit in traffic, because the same idiots allow new homes to go up all over, yet never stop and think about widening the freeways. While I sit on the 15 fwy in riverside and stare at about 50 feet of wide open dirt in between the north and south lanes (that has been there for 15 years) I wonder why anyone gets so worked up about who is going to be President. We don't even have anyone smart enough to run a state let alone a country. WE ARE THE STUPID PEOPLE FOR VOTING THE PARTY LINE AND NOT TRYING TO THROW OUT ALL THE BUMS WHO GET UP THERE AND PROMISE US ALL THESE GOODIES, like they are KINGS AND QUEENS and we should be grateful!!! ITS OUR MONEY THAT FUNDS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!!!
The priorities should be NATIONAL DEFENSE, NATIONAL DISASTERS, and making sure other countries RESPECT our borders and our traditions, and a few other pressing issues. These should not be FULL TIME JOBS. They should meet every once in a while and do the business of the people and go home to real jobs, then and only then will they have the best interest of the people at heart!
Thank you and good night!

MANY INDEPENDENTS AND DEMOCRATS WILL NOT VOTE FOR MRS. CLINTON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. CLINTON SUPPORTERS ARE ENGAGED IN WISHFUL THINKING IF THEY THINK THIS DOES NOT MATTER.

Please wake up americas cnn is surely biased they arent even puttng ron pauls name on the polls across the net!! he dominate the straw polls!!

THE PEOPLES REAL CHOICE NOT A MEDIA PRESIDENT OR A BIG GOVERNMENT OR BIG BUSINESS ,,,,,,,,,RON PAUL 2008

DONT LET THEM TRIVCK YOU WITH B.S.

Most of Mrs. Clinton's "experience" is in lying and extracting her husband from his nasty personal imbroglios. And we're all still waiting how to learn to turn $10,000 into $100,000 by reading the Wall Street Journal. Please let us know, Mrs. Clinton, as the money can be used to donate to Bill's and your victims. And, too, since you're the "smartest woman in America," perhaps you could let us know why you failed (of all things) the D.C. Bar Exam. My, that's impressive.

Nice try, Clintonista's but I don't buy it as I don't by most polls, as it all depends on how, and to whom, the questions are asked.

This is nothing but a cheap ploy due to Hillary's plummeting numbers and nothing more. The votes will do the talking and will show that this "poll" is nothing more than empty words and numbers.

I've said it for the last two years and I'm sticking by my guns; Hillary will NOT be elected President of the United States of America, period, end of story.

The Republicans will no doubt win the White House if the Democrat Party continues their arrogance in thinking that this country, right or wrong, will elect a female President. They will not and UNBIASED poll after poll has proven this.

Keep up this charade, and the Republicans will not only retain the White House in '08, but more than likely the entire Congress as well, due in large part to the failed policies of the Democrat Party to either impeach or impugn President Bush, as well as time after time fail to achieve any of their goals regarding the Iraq War.

Clintons cheat.

Everyone will admit to that–even their sycophants.

As I have said before..White America will Not vote for a Negro candidate.I doubt very seriously they will even break from the "good ol' boy network" and vote for a woman.

Well what else do you expect from the Clinton News Network (CNN.

Hillary Clinton will bury any GOP out there. The GOPs who think otherwise have lost what was left of their minds. Only McCain has a chance against clinton in november.
I hope the GOP is silly enough to nominate Romney. Then Hillary Clinton will become President in a landslide.
I look forward to seeing Texas go DEM on election night. That is what will happen if romney gets the GOP nod.
Clinton will be a fierce candidate who can take anything the RNC can throw at her.

Clinton News Network will make a mess of this important vote. I will not make a choice until I see more people fall all over themselves.

Go Hillary!

obama is just out of his leauge. He's trying so hard, but he's just better suited to be in charge of the little leauge association or something fun and easy. Could you see him running the war on terror? I can't!! In short Hillary has no worries with this youngster

O, Hilary. This dyed-in-the-wool lefty much prefers Kucinich, then Richardson, then Edwards, but alas is resigned to learning to live with Clinton as the Democratic candidate. I would have to plug both nostrils with Vicks VapoRub, but I'd vote for her over any Republican. (I cannot imagine myself voting for any R for anything, ever, period.) Why? Well, read Jeffrey Toobin's "The Nine," and learn how the R party time and time again advances its longest-range cryptofascist goals with its nominations to the Supreme Court. At the very least Clinton would nominate less odious justices. Thin gruel, I acknowledge, but, given how things are set up, it's all we're gonna get.

Poll results are like surveyors. Where the property stakes (lines) get placed are determined by who is paying for the survey.

Hillary has NO experience. None. Zero. She is purely a creation of an adoring press. She watched her lotharian husband roam from chick to chick and did not care as long as it didn't interfere with her political aims. she was glad he was diverted so that she wouldn't have to touch him. What a creepy and sick pair, those Clintons. Oh, remember: Bill never got 50% of the popular vote.

By referring to Clinton's experience are you confessing that she ran the White House while her husband was president? Clinon is gutless which is why the Dems handed her the Senate seat in NY. She knew she couldn't win anywhere else because Mass. was already spoken for. Get real everybody … she's got nothing.

This is LAUGHABLE. The ABC/Washington Post poll (which is usually the headline grabber on every news site, including Drudge) AND is the most popular, most respected, and thorough poll on the web just released their results that shows OBAMA AHEAD OF CLINTON 32-29. Where's the headline for that? Oh right, it's CNN (Clinton News Network). How many "likely caucus goers" did were even polled in this? I went to the ARG site and it didn't even say.

I can probably find some poll on the internet that shows Kucinich ahead, but that doesn't mean the squirrely dude's gonna win anything.

Wow! I think someone is pulling your leg. These polls are historically inaccurate and Hillary will be lucky to finish second. It's Obama first…and Hillary and Edwards neck and neck for second best. On the GOP side, bank on Huckabee followed by McCain and Romney. Easy call.

Who else could/would possibly plant/ spike/puff this fantasy piece… but CNN… The Clinton News Network!!!!

I'll believe it when I see the final numbers !!!

Osbama is a Musilm!

Go Hilary…….Then get crushed by America in the open election!

Liberal sheep.

Even with Ted Turner gone from CNN, the offers from Schrillary to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom "if I win" abound. Just goes to show what clintons will stoop to.Show me a Clinton supporter, and I'll show you a sheep- hey, your shoe's untied!

Iowa means nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A primary/caucus vote for Democrat, Hillary = a general election vote for Republican _____(fill-in-the-blank)______.

Are you kidding me? Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, wants either of these two. Another CNN fraud. Sorry CNN, nobodys watching anymore, we have found truthful, reliable media and it doesnt include the Old Lame Stream Media companies. Present company included. Ron Paul is the winner on every (legitimate) poll. Americans are speaking loud and clear.

Just proves the polls are being rigged, the election is rigged and there is no more actual election of our government in the USA anymore. RON PAUL, 2008, if the polling and corrupted government even allow us to elect our most-popular RON PAUL.

How many people will have to say "anyone but Hillary," before voters start to get it. She would be a terrible nominee, because she'd have no chance of winning in the general election. No one is more polarizing than Hillary. Her negatives are higher than any other candidate. Do you suppose there's a reason for this degree of distaste? For Heaven's sake, dump Hillary and choose a viable candidate.

If Hillary does become President say "Goodbye" to Democracy and "Hello" to Socialism. It's a well known fact that both Hillary and Bill firmly believe in Socialism. Bill Clinton embraced Socialism so much that he was invited and accepted an invitation to tour the former USSR. Beware people Hillary will be the biggest threat to Democracy thsi couintry has ever had.

The sad thing about all of this is the long list is ignorant
comments about ridding this country of fraud, stupidity, lying, etc… The cries to wake up and vote the Democratic ticket are laughable. If you were truly awake you would realize that THERE IS ZERO DIFFERENCE between a "Democrat" and a "Republican". They are all lying frauds and a vote for Hillary is a vote to keep things the same. We will import more lead painted garbage from China, more jobs will disappear to third world countries and the national debt will continue to skyrocket as paper money is printed at a record pace. You will become poorer while the politicos will continue to pocket big money as they sell you and your family and your freedoms to foreign countries.

In elections as in wars the first casualty is the truth…the last two Pres… elections have been frauds look at swiss elections they do not mess around..thanks

Gee, do you think college students being home for the holidays has made this poll unreliable?

CNN of course is behind this managed news. Hillary is a shillary and those duped by this empty suited woman deserve to live under people like Hugo Chavez or Mugabe in Zimbawe. You Hillary people
are the most ignorant masses that the liberals have ever produced in this still fine country.

"Just as Bill Clinton wiped his opponents off the map so will Hillary" Remarks like this is why the democrat party is so crazy and dangerous. Slick Willie never carried 50% of the vote in either election but won by default. The person that made this remark should not be allowed to vote in any election down to and including dog catcher in a county with no dogs. Must be one of the truthers on the loose. Actually the majority of democrats should not be allowed on unsupervised release from the Ha Ha House.

CNN (Clinton News Network) has just put Hillary ahead of Obama!! What a joke! It looks like CNN is the radical left version of the right wing Fox News.

hillary is a 100% phony. she is an odious human being, inside and out. polls do not reflect the turnout which hillary will bring out. so many that hate her will vote this time around. dems are making a big mistake. any dem can win in 08 –except hillary

After the elections the last few years you should realize by now: the polls mean nothing. The only thing that matters is the vote. It has been a problem of the left, constantly following the polls and saying what they think the public wants to hear on any given day. Now the right seems to be paying too much attention to how they are doing against Hillary and Obama. Not good for either party. People don't vote "against" someone, they vote for someone. It is why Kerry lost, they had the 'anyone but Bush mentality.' Now get out and vote for the man who will stop illegal immigration and move the economy forward: Mitt Romney!

What experience does Hillary Clinton
have? I want concrete and documented
proof. There is none. She is one of
the most unqualified people to ever
run for president. Wanting things,
being married to a president, being
shrill, imitating a black accent in
a southern church, working behind the
scences to cover up her husbands sex-
ual affairs, and winning a senate seat
in a state she just moved to a couple
months before the election does not
qualify her to be president. She has
nothing to offer besides ambition. She
and her husband want in the white house
so bad they're practically foaming at
the mouth at the prospect. Obama, Rudy,
Mit…anybody but her and her husband.
They come as a package.

To Democrats who crow about polls showing Hillary beating every GOP candidate:

Michael Dukakis led George HW Bush by 17 points less than three months before the 1988 election.

Sorry, but nominating Hillary is a huge mistake by Dems. No way can she be elected. The baggage is overwhelming.

I hope it is Mrs. Clinton because she will be easier to beat than Obama in the general election. Does anyone really like Mrs. Clinton?

"Just as Bill Clinton wiped his opponents off the map so will Hillary" Remarks like this is why the democrat party is so crazy and dangerous. Slick Willie never carried 50% of the vote in either election but won by default. The person that made this remark should not be allowed to vote in any election down to and including dog catcher in a county with no dogs. Must be one of the truthers on the loose.

Just as in the Iowa/NH primaries four years ago, when it really matters, the voters come to their senses. Hillary is going to be a GREAT president.

Keep wishing Pubs With Hill's experience you know what im referring to. Like Ah, Ahh Ahhh oh well you know she has experience putting up with a cheating husband for years and thats a lot of experience Isnt it??? but its the best we have to offer.. A Loyal Dem.

My two cents….American people wake up…stop listening to polls!!! How many sample voters does 600 people truly represent within a state? When was the last time YOU were included in a polling like this? Please stop being a puppet of the media, and polsters who have political agendas as well and vote for who you think will represent true and needed change for the country.

For me that is Obama….

is this another CNN propaganda to promote hillary Clinton?

Hey CNN: there is no doubt YOU support clinton.

Here's an idea… Stop competing with Fox News and get back to journalistic integrity… Which you seemed to have lost during Blitzer's Democrat debate

It would be funny to see the Dems shoot themselves in the foot again by running another Northern Senator (least likely office to get elected president)who happens to be generally unlikeable. Also consider how much of her corps she's estranged by trying to moderate herself in New York. That stuff shows up in the primaries.

And I'm sorry, but her being a woman isn't making anything easier for her. Say what you will about it not being right and how it shouldn't matter, but the fact is that there are a lot of people who are consciously and unconsciously sexist int his country and while they might pay her lip-service in a poll, the truth will come out in ballot box.

The only times Dems have won the White House in recent history is when they've run southern governors. Governor is the most likely candidate to be elected and the southern aspect wins enough red states to turn the tide. It's one of the reasons I believe Romney will be able to win the Republican Nomination and why Hillary is a horrible candidate.

We live in Upstate New York. She came here as a carpetbagger and ran for the U.S. Senate. The NY City liberals elected her, because they would vote for Minnie Mouse if she were running as a Democrat. I can absolutely tell you that she has not done one thing for the local economy.

The Clinton administration was the most corupt in history, and if she is elected, the next one will be no different. Remember the Rose Law firm billing records? Remember Vince Foster?

There is ample evidence of the stupidity of the U.S. voter. This poll demonstrates that it is not only stupid, it has amnesia.

Just as Bill Clinton wiped his opponents off the map so will Hillary. The polls that you refer to are not etched in stone, and don't measure the the mood of the country for change. Charles your tarnished and tattered Republican party that has given this nation a river of red ink with its deficit spending, an illegitimate war, an explosion in the size of government,a decaying infrastructure, a image of shame around the globe,a decimated middle class,a deceitful/incompetent presidency, and plethora of other problems environmental and otherwise will be sufficient motivation to throw the bums out.

Posted By William, Hampton, VA : December 24, 2007 8:31 pm

What William has been soooooo long winded intrying to say is – George Bush is the best president the Dems have ever had! Let's flush this toad & Hillary and kill 2 birds with one election. It's time for a change and Hillary just isn't it. I think even Her own mother hates her. I know 57% of U.S. voters would vote for Peewee Herman before Hill. But we're guaranteed to send G.W. to the showers. America will win big just because these 2 scumbags will be out of the picture.

Why are there no interal datat published about the poll itself? Who was asked and how the question itself was phrased matter! More of the same from CNN ho hum

I'm 60 years old. My mother is 86. We're going to the IA caucuses for Hillary Clinton because we want to be part of the one chance we both may have to elect a woman US President. As mean and nasty as things may get—as the comments on this site suggest—we will stand firm and the job done. Believe me, there are more of us (old white women) voters than there are of any other kind.

I say you have to watch who does the polls, visit DeadBeatPoliticians.com for some accurate info.

What is wrong with you people? Have you not had enough of Clinton up your Bush? Seems to me I remember that she stole the china and silver ware when Bill left office. What will she steal from you, your soul? Let us get passed the Clinton and Bush's period. We need a person that you can trust to lead us.
She is also mean and demanding. What button will she push when Bill pulls another cigar out of some young girl?

How do so few of you people understand that at the very top, there is no difference between the republicans and the democrats? Our mainstream media is easily manipulated by our intelligence agencies, and the agenda of those in control is the destruction of the U.S., a necessary step to world government run through the United Nations. The Clintons are globalists, not Americans. Anyone (Obama, Huckabee, Edwards, Hitlery, etc.) being cast in a favorable light by the media has been compromised, and serve the interests of the globalist networks. Ron Paul is the only person worth voting for…casting a vote for anyone else is meaningless. Challenge yourself and look beyond the mainstream media. Refuse to be a dupe.

It is all about surges. Surges sell. Run-aways do not. On the Republican side we have had the Yuckabee surge, the Thompson surge, and now the McCain surge. All great news stories that help push each surge. The media is playing a game. They do not want this to be over by May so we will have surge after surge after surge that they naturally help along. Yuckabee wouldn't be where he is today without incessant touting by the media looking for something to write about. We have candidates literally working their behinds off, building organizations, spending tons of money, etc. and yet they still have to constantly fight the reporters who are playing gotcha games or working their own agendas. What we, the American People, are going to wind up with is a President who is worthless while all the reporters get raises and their expense accounts paid.

So, who did hillary and her husband bribe to get this phony poll done? They are doing their usual sneeeezy, immoral, lying, cheating, crap. Sheeeeh!

Obama does not have the support of the old civil rights leaders. Living in Atlanta, I can tell you the old civil right's leaders, reverands, professors and movement do not want change – they want Bill & Hillary Clinton back in the White House because they seemed to be attached at the hip no matter what the state of our country is in. Hillary & Bill what to get back at the "right wingers" and so do the old civil rights leaders and their followers. This is a sad state of affairs.

Sample size is too small and has large margin of error. It should be a 1000 with 3% margin of error. They need to list the sample size and margin of error. Biden moving up is likely true but this media game is misleading and selling out our democracy. The White House is not for sale and the media sells it.

I have seen no poll results — EVER — prior to this one that put Hillary that far ahead. This data seems like an outlier. Did we check the methodology behind this one, or did we rush to print it?

The more you discuss polls, the more you encourage voters to cast votes based upon buzz and less upon the issues. CNN and other major media do us all a disservice by reporting political races this way.

This is garbage. Theres no way you can gain that many points in less than a week. I just saw on NBC yesterday that Obama remained up 28 to 26 in Iowa. Who took this poll? No doubt supports of Hillary to try to get voters to give up on Obama. Pure garbage.

If Democrats want to win this next election… they should pay attention…Some disenchanted Republicans might just vote for Edwards but never for Obama or NEVER for Hillary Clinton! I have hard more than one disenchanted Republican say this.

Yes, William, and what would the Democrats give us? More attacks at home!

Only Zogby polls hold merit. Not some American Research poll who calls lazy people who are at home all day watching Jerry Springer and living off the system. They will most likely not vote and therefore, don't count making the poll pointless. Why would anyone want this Fascist Socialist cow to win? Have you not had enough Clintons and Bush's America? If she gets in it will be the same TWO families since 1988.

FYI: I conducted the poll in question, outside in the freezing rain, in a Burger King parking lot. Most of those questioned, were in a big hurry to get out of the rain, and into their cars. I could usually make out what they were saying, but most of the time what they said sounded almost like – Hillary. I am probably mistaken. However, this is just another of those guesses we like to pass off as a poll. Fun isn't it? We pass off these polls, like the cattle that are warming the planet pass off gas. Good Lord, if Democrats had any brains at all they would be Republicans. Thanks A.C.

Folks, it's very simple. If you want to take from your fellow citizens and live from cradle to grave for free, without having to work for anything, vote for a Democrat.

If you believe in working hard and keeping what you earn, believe that a free market economy gives everyone an opportunity to succeed, then vote for a Republican.

It's all about looking in mirror and asking yourself: "Am i a taker or am i producer?"

Get some pride people!

How many people are in Iowa? 600 hundred is too small a sample size to draw any true data from. A telephone poll only measures people answering the phone and have time to answer the questions, (the questions that were not posted by CNN). Republicans were more than likely at work listening to RUSH!

Anyone who feels happy with the choices given by either party this election needs their heads examined. One's likeable with no experience. The other's unlikeable who's married to a guy with experience. And then there's the millionaire lawyer who's green-minded, but lives in a mansion the size of most warehouses and sees no reason why he shouldn't. The Democrats might end up with a "First", but the country needs a real President, not a historical footnote. If this is the best the party has to offer, we're in trouble.
All three are guility of saying what they think voters want to hear. Hillary changes her mind with the changes in poll numbers. Obama would be another Jimmy Carter.

If Hillary cannot manage her own household why should we believe she would do any better at running a gov't…no more Bush's or Clinton's and end the 'banana republic' syndrome…

4 Words:

Ron Paul for President

CLINTON NEWS NETWORK is trying everything possible to get HRC elected, they want even tell the true story about who she really is. Jesse Jackson has more character, morals, and ethics than this witch..

"Ah… YES!

Please people, PLEASE make Hillary the Democratic nominee. I can imagine no one more repulsively divisive who could galvanize the Republican counter-vote than she. Even half her own party wouldn't vote for her on a bet!

Pleeeeze… "
by Charles in Salt Lake City, UT

BINGO – give the man a cigar – on the money – you hit that one out of the park

What schmuck put this bunch of baloney poll together??? What do you expect from the Clinton News Network? Vote Hillary and elect the next Republican president!

Yeah,right! I'm sure this CNN poll is
legitimate. Just like that all men
are flocking to vote for Hillary and
abandoning Obama? In a matter of a few
days she has a double digit lead over
Obama, who had a commanding lead just
last week? Sounds legitimate. CNN has
no crediblility. Face it, if Hillary's
last name wasn't Clinton she couldn't
get within 500 miles of the white
house.

THIS IS ALL MEDIA BIAS!!! THEY DID A POLL IN WHICH THEY ASKED 600 PEOPLE!! just 600?? arent there at least 100000 registered voters in the state of iowa? these polls dont mean anything but to get you all riled up and frivolous about whos gonna win. and a vote for hillary is a vote for bill, so STFU!!!

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan received the "Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright,Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer" Award at the 2007 Trumpet Gala at the the United Church of Christ – U.S. Sen. Barack Obama -says he has been deeply influenced by his churchThe United Church of Christ .Louis Farrakhan is the acting head of the Nation of Islam .Farrakhan made several controversial statements about race, including "White people are potential humans — they haven't evolved yet"and"Murder and lying comes easy for white people".According to Farrakhan's mentor, Elijah Muhammad, blacks were "born righteous and turned to unrighteousness," while the white race was "made unrighteous by the god who made them.U.S. Sen. Barack Obama says he has been deeply influenced by his church, Trinity UCC on Chicago's South Side, and its senior pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

Ever think CNN is up to it's old tricks to gain some traffic? It's impossible Hill is up like this..unless the data is just unreliable. My money's on the ABC poll from a few days ago. Desparate times for a desparate Hillary and CNN? Point is this: you just can't know.

Uh, why do I find this poll hard to believe?

Oh, that's right. CNN, that beacon of journalistic integrity is behind this.

Come on! This poll is a joke because CNN is the CLINTON NEWS NETWORK all regimented by the Hillbillery's. I have never heard of the American Research Group, must be an affiliate of Media Matters. This manuever will do nothing but destroy Hillary further.
Do they think we are a bunch of idoits!
Keep coming on with the phony campaigning as it is not going to work like it did in the Hillbillery's past
destructive eight years of our country.

From The New Republic, "The Stump", by Michael Crowley and Noam Scheiber: 26.12.2007 About That ARG poll Not a moment too soon, Pollster.com's Mark Blumenthal provides some important context on that new ARG poll showing Hillary with a 15-point Iowa lead. Short version: Polling on a holiday travel weekend is rare and dodgy, and likely to underrepresent younger, better-educated voters–in other words, voters who tend to favor Obama and whose absence from a survey would likely aid Hillary Clinton. Seems best to wait for post-Christmas polling, which is surely being conducted now and will likely appear by the weekend. –Michael Crowley Posted: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:22 PM

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2007/12/26/about-that-arg-poll.aspx

Once again the corporate mainstream media is quick to jump on a outlier poll that swings in their candidate's favor to fuel the next few days of media cycle. Thanks, TimeWarner for letting the people decide…not.

Charles is right. Put the shrill, cackling harridan with the telephone-pole calves right up there at the top of the Democrat ticket. We'll send her home to Noo Yawk City where she belongs.

Watching the Democrats and Republicans go back and forth over who is ahead or behind in the polls is so funny. As one of the growing number of Independents who realizes that it is becoming increasing irrelevant to vote for either Demo/GOP because they refuse to represent my interests, I just find this political tango to be very sad. They continue to talk a good game during their campaigns but the moment they are elected, they revert to business as usual which appears to be doing whatever business/corporate/governmental masters want them to do but not the peoples business. You Demo/GOP supporters who delude yourself into thinking that any of your candidates that are running are going to change dramatically the course of this country, you are sadly mistaken. What we need is a revolution from these two parties and to restablish a reformed constituional government that will actually listen to the average American and not to those who just wish to bleed the country dry. I'm not holding my breath waiting for this because I don't expect too many Americans can pull themselves away from their TV's, IPODS and video games to really care. The great Constitutional Republic of the USA is slowly dying, spreading itself too thin around the globe while rotting from within. May God Help Us to get it back. Vote Independent this year! Don't vote Democrat or Republican!

U do realize that hillary is ONLY POPULAR because her husband(president) got a bj in the white house?? If that never happened.. she would just be another first lady….. How sad..

Harvey, please list her experience as I'm at a loss to find any.

Good riddance! Serves them well!!

Go Hillary44 08! http://hillaryis44.org/

That's funny, the Clinton News Network says Hillary pulled ahead all of a sudden! Gee, big surprise! I am sure their poll was really fair and balanced! NOT!!!!

CNN, AKA the Clinton News Network. Who else would have a rigged poll to support the canditate of their choice. So much for journalistic integrity

As bad as she might be, there is no way she could be as bad as the monkey boy currently serving.

Repulicans neo cons are shaking in their boots.
PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON

GO HILLARY GO !!!!

It is great to see John Mccain surging at the perfect time. He is the only "great man" in the race and he alone has the experience to wage the war on terror, which, pace the economy, is the central challenge of our time. A solid finish in Iowa, a win in NH, and Mccain will be the GOP Nominee and the next president of the US

Hillary is trash. Thats a fact. Even most dems can see it.

ARG seems to have the wildest swings of the pollsters… I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing though.

What remains consistent is Romney's base of supporters.

I wonder if Hillary will use the cigar trick on her interns also?

Vets 4 Dr Ron paul

Um– the experimental would be every "new president" since Washington. How about we come up with a better slam than that–"Harvey"?

I personally believe that "experience" (speaking of Hillary) equals understanding of how to brainwash, turn and burn the country even more to a worse state of being.
Her experience is not what we need that is for sure!!

How about we look for a better candidate all the way around for our Presidental office!!

Ah… YES!

Please people, PLEASE make Hillary the Democratic nominee. I can imagine no one more repulsively divisive who could galvanize the Republican counter-vote than she. Even half her own party wouldn't vote for her on a bet!

Pleeeeze…

Posted By Charles in Salt Lake City, UT : December 24, 2007 8:08 pm

So you're saying that other Democrat candidates would be given the red carpet treatment by republican/neo-conservatives?

Please, indeed.

Phil, SAC CA said:

where is a link to the actual poll or a reference to who conducted it?

Hey Phil, there isn't one. CNN is making up the news again. This is why people call them the Clinton News Network! They spew the Clinton line.

Bumper Sticker on the front of my gas guzzling, global warming causing SUV says: RUN Hillary, RUN!

Best way to put the Republicans back in power is to nominate Hillary Clinton. Go Democrats, Go! (ROFL)

Let's be honest, the Clinton's as an entire family made our Presidental Office position look like a joke to the whole world. How would you like to follow in a leadership position after the last person who ran the job lied, scammed, fornacated, and tried to make himself and his family look innocent? That is what Bush has had to do. At least he has stayed loyal to his family, his God, and has tried to recover the morality of the Presidental office.

Go Hillary!
It will be great to officially be in a true "welfare society", so that the poor stay poor and rich stay rich.
That's the sprial that democrats seems to always put our country into. Oh– and we can continue the immigration problems too.

Everyone should educated on the way government works and that is in dealing with the true affects of a leader in the Presidental office it takes 3-4 years for the true effects of the 'ruin' or 'good' to be felt. (Hmm… as soon as Bush was elected we have 9/11, gas hikes, tax issues, etc.. that wasn't an effect of his election– that was a ruin of the past President!!)
How long was Clinton in office– or did we forget?

If we do not elect a person who is going to make the wise decisions according to the Bible and our Constitution, we will all lose!

Now that the Clintons and thier minions have put out there that Osama is a drug dealer and then 'apologised" after the fact it should come as no surprise that he has dropped in the polls. They always have been corrupt and always will be. Apparently there are no clean government liberals left.

IF HILLARY WINS THE NOMINATION Real people for change maight as well stay home and watch reruns….and get use to them because that is what we'll get. Save your gas money instead of going out into the cold to vote for Bush-Lite.

Is there an Independent candidate? I don't like any of the choices so far.

Go Ron Paul

excerpt from an earlier comment: "As for Bush, say what you will but there is no sleaze factor surrounding him. He says what he means and means what he says. Unlike the Clintons, he has always put the safety and security of America 1st and not his political fortunes."
*************

Well if y'all don't count the victims of Katrina I suppose y'all may be able to spin that Dubya "always put the safety and security of America 1st" NOT

The other thing that really leaps out is the fact that soooo many posters are stuck in the past and continue to reason with their minds down in the gutter!! The 90's have passed, it's yesterdays news YET they are STILL dwelling on it = Almost vicariously it would seem No wonder we got stuck w/another 4 yrs of Bushbaby!! The brains of the Hillaryhaters are all below their belts….

What a kick to watch all their sophomoric heads explode when she gets elected. Will serve them right for making the rest of us suffer for the past 8yrs w/the Shrub…

Goooooooooooo Hillary November 4, 2008

All you Hillary supporters are soooo blind..she voted for this war, she voted to call Iran's army terrorists…she has no judgement….this is terrifying to me as a Democrat to see other Dems jump on the corporate shill bandwagon…she took money from Rupert Murdoch…we are turning into a fascist country and you are aiding and abetting that..time to go to Canada for real. If you want to see the Republicans make a comeback, then vote for Hillary.

Historically, ARG polls have shown themselves to not even be marginally accurate…..

Wow, those people in Iowa must be mighty flaky to change their minds so much.

Either that or these polls aren't worth beans.

Why is it no one ever reviews specific polls after the election and says to the pollsters, "You got this wrong."

C'MON, PEOPLE…THESE POLLS ARE PURE, UNADULTERATED CRAP. The only thing that matters is the actual vote, so just wait on it. We can then discuss the merits of one candidate over another. Until then, cool it.

Folks, PRAGMATIC politics is all that can and should win the day.

Idealogical politics is stooooopid; no politician who has a position set in stone can succeed…that's just reality.

If you come in like an evangelist and try to make things conform to your world view in absolutist terms you will fail.

This is the kind of aspirational BS Obama is selling with this CHANGE thing…he does not have the flexibility and finesse to even get close to his goals.

This poll only reflects that people understand that and are finally making up their minds. They've realized Hillary — while not a new face — can manage Washington in important ways that Obama can not (because he does not appreciate that you have to nor has ever had to).

As for the Republican's they have nothing but disdain for government and the social safety nets people require of it.

They have no vision, no answers and are only stumbling over one another to out-Jesus the other.

More proof that polls are a waste of time. If anyone has their vote effected by such nonsense, they shouldn't be voting.

Yeah, the Devil in a Blue Dress has tricked voeter into saying on a poll they are more likely to vote for her.

Yippie.

Bush Sr 8 years as VP
Bush Sr 4 years as P
Clinton 8 years as P
Bush Jr 8 years as P
Clinton again?

28 years so far of 2 families…why not take it another 4 or 8. Why bother changing a freaking thing.

Sometimes, I think most of America are Sheep to be lead to the slaughter. And go willingly.

It constantly amazes me how incredibly stupid voters can be. Here in Maryland we have some of the dumbest. And anyone who would consider voting for Hilary Clinton (for anything) has not done their homework. It's really an easy concept to understand people. Socialism has been a miserable failure everywhere it's been tried. All you supposedly intellectual well educated people are simply well indoctrinated and it's been going on for over 40 years now. There's NO ONE on the Dems side qualified for the Presidency and few on the Republicans. Duncan Hunter was the country's best option but the MSM quashed his hopes. But another Clinton ? You've got to be kidding.

I will neer watch CNN ever again. Obviosly they are way too biased and support Hillary. This poll shows no scientific evidence and doesn't even state which poll it was and how it was conducted. I feel sorry for the people who actually believe it. They can only say the previous poll was ARP, what a joke. One of the most pathetic articles I've ever scene. Drudge should be ashamed for putting this as the headline.

Bush and Cheney have torn the country apart for the last 7 years. After being raped and pillaged by the GOP, Americans will make the right decision and elect a Democratic President. I would take any of the Democrats over a continuation of Bush's policies but I would love to have a return to the Clinton era…peace and prosperity again…the GOP hates Clinton because 70% of America loves him. If it wre legal, we would vote Bill in for a third term in a heartbeat.

Could this be Oprah Winfrey's negative coattails at work?

Seems she and Obama's wife tried to make it a racial thing and Americans aren't buying.

So just how accurate are polls anyway?

Pat

Note the lack of acclaimation for this mysterious poll. Could it have been conducted by the Clinton News Network? Number one rule in journalism unless your source requests to remain on background, NAME YOUR SOURCE!

I refuse to believe any of these media polls. We already know how much the media has lied about the amount of Ron Paul's support and quite frankly NO, this is not a country that likes Hillary Clinton.

If this woman couldn't take care of her family, control one man – her husband – what makes anyone think she can control 300 million of us? lol!

She's unloved thats why shes such a empty power hungry hypocrite. Please give her the nomination so we can defeat the Clintons once and for all and go into the future without these impeached disgraces.

The debate on the war is so over. I have never seen a party (The Dems) so eager for defeat. The surge worked despite the best efforts of Democrats to abandon our troops (They have a long history of it). As the debate shifts away from the war, candidates like Obama will suffer. The reason is that Obama has little else to offer aside from being the anti-war candidate.

As a Republican, you bet I'm happy to see Hillary doing well. Hillary is our only hope of keeping the Whitehouse. She will suppress the vote on the left and middle since as many people hate her as there are people that like her. I can think of no other person would cause Republicans to vote in droves.

In the end, it comes down to who will be best for the country. We need someone who is a moderate that can bring both sides together. Unfortunately the primary process nearly grantees that the eventual candidate will be an extremist on both sides. Either way, we all lose.

Why are some people so seemingly retarded when giving negative opinions about Hillary Clinton? You only make yourself look like a twit- when Republicans beg for her to win the nomination- they miss one simple fact- she need only win the same states that Kerry won- plus Ohio- that happens- she wins. Unlike 2000 & 2004, where Ohio saved Bush twice- due to corruption scandals- there are no Republicans in statewide office- nor do any of the major cities in Ohio have a GOP mayor. Add to that the fact that Hillary makes Arkansas and Florida in play- there you have what Republicans really fear.

Who sponsored the poll? Who is the group that conducted the poll? There are hundreds of polls – most of which fail to accurately tap the view of Americans by the results of how they vote in elections. Someone paid for the poll. Was it CNN? A group of Newspapers? A Democratic Think Tank? Why can't the reporter give us just a bit of basic information?

It tells us nothing by Tagging the bottom of the story:
"The most recent ARG polls have a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The polls were conducted over the phone, and had a sample size of 600 likely Democratic and 600 Republican caucus-goers living in Iowa, respectively."

America, once a nation of builders, inventors and warriors, will show that it's now a slave plantation filled with victims and injured parties, sheep waiting for Mother Clinton to nudge us from pasture to pasture like any other grass eating species. Soon all of America will be like New Orleans, waiting on the street chanting "Feed me, Feed me".

Someone resurrect the valiant dead in Arlington and tell them we're sorry for squandering your sacrifices

Even William from Hampton VA. is too smart to believe the vile crap he composed.

i sure hope that the democrats nominate a woman or a black man so that republicans win easily in november.

As someone who desperately wants a Dem as President, I wish people would think about who is more electable after the primaries. People HATE Hilary…enough that they would vote for just about anyone else. No one HATES Obama. Hilary, could actually be the reason why we DONT win in 2008.

This trend may not last. Give it time.

The last time we had a Clinton in the White House he was impeached. Americans would have to be desperate to put Bill Clinton anywhere near the White House. Hillary had her chance and proved she caters to special interests. I like Senator Obama's spunk and courage and will vote for him…And I'm from New York!!!

CNN, a.k.a. the Clinton News Network, manufactured a poll that shows Hillary (not Rodham) Clinton as the comeback kid.

What a shock. What a surprise.

What a steaming pile of crap.

http://theoutlander.blogstream.com

Republican, Democrat or Independent — CNN has obviously missed the 18 million dollar man RON PAUL. . . . America's President.

Everyone loves liberty, freedom and peace. RON PAUL has integrity, 10 terms of experience, and is knowledgeable about economics, military, domestic and foreign policy.

The polls are wrong — It's a RON PAUL REVOLUTION!

This obviously phony poll denegrates all those who strive so hard to present us with the truth. Another good reason NOT TO VOTE FOR HILLARY.
THE POLL IS A METAPHOR FOR CLINTON–IT'S A PHONY !!!

POLL TAKEN BY CLINTON NEWS NETWORK

…did anyone see the sham democratic and republican debates that cnn held? talk about a "neutral" and "objective" news organization. It was great biased liberal politics to see cnn allow questions from non-republicans to the republicans…and then to see cnn allow questions to the democrats about what kind of jewelry would they…or I meant, SHE, want……complete clintonista propaganda machine hacks.

…and tomorrow it will come out that all the caucus goers cnn polled were at a rally for clinton, but didnt see the sign up that the HRC party headquarters brought until after the poll. oh…and it turns out the poll was of 50 caucus goers not 600.

the circus politics promoted by the clinton propaganda news network would make Joseph Goebbels very very proud.

Atleast she got the polls without killing any of her rials like her husband.
Germany and france both went right in the past year
yeah the world hates us?
Sarkozy in 08 for supreme leader of the world.

reading these comments is just scary. Face it, all the candidates on both sides in this election have significant flaws.
I can't stand Hillary, and the idea of someone rising to President with her "experience" is laughable, but if you put a gun to my head and said vote for Hillary, Edwards, or Obama for President, I'd be going back and forth between "Hillary" and "pull the trigger".

Hillary will win the presidential election because she is the closest moderate to George Bush.

Go RON PAUL Go! !!!!! Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who can beat Hillary. 10% this week. Maybe 20% next week to win the caucas!!!

Go Ron Go!!!1

Statistic often can be manipulated. The only thing that matters is January 3rd's caucuses. I personnally believe Clinton is more a republican than democrat and Obama is a little inexperienced to be president (a good vice-president candidate.

The only true Democrat is John Edwards and I like an Edwards/Kucinich ticket or Edwards/Obama.

if you vote leadership, there are only really 3 candidates, Obama, Rudi, McCain. if you vote emotions, hilliary or huckaboo. if you vote nutcases, Kuicinich or Paul. if you vote ho-hum, any of the rest will do.

Just maybe the media is manipulating all of the data to make stories that keep people glued to them. In my 30+ years of being a voter, I have never been polled and don't know one person who has been polled for a political race.

This 'poll', remember, is the only one currently in this country which shows any lead for Clinton. And who wrote it? The Clinton News Network. After all, when has CNN ever produced anything but Clinton propoganda for the last 16 years? And this to "William" in Hampton, VA: You state, ridiculously, that Bill Clinton 'wiped his opponents off the map'…what map are you referring? Once again a Clinton supporting liberal has to be given the facts: Bill Clinton never won the majority in either the '92 nor the '96 election. Both times, he received less than the majority. The only reason he won was because of a certain little psycho named ross perot. '92 results: Clinton 43%, Bush 37%, Perot 19%. That means that 56% of the voters didn't vote for Clinton. In '96, about the same, more or less. There's the facts, WIlliam. A little more wisdom you should utilize, and a little less CNN-style propoganda.

As evidenced by some of the comments below, the GOP is praying for Hillary to be the Dems' nominee. She is unelectable in a national campaign. She will win NO states in the South and lose many western states that even went for Kerry. What are Democrats thinking???

Obama is the only candidate who has proven he can win against any Republican they put on the ballot. Please, people of Iowa and New Hampshire, don't fall for the Clintons again.

Only since Bill Clinton has gotten directly involved, has Hillary Rodham's presidential bid gotten back on track.

Hey Nando, Bush already delivered us to the bottom of the food chain. The only way is up from here. Anyone of these idiots will do a better job.

Once again the Clinton News Network (CNN) jumps in to bail the Clintons out, no doubt, Bill made a call.

John Edwards is the best hope to actually change the direction of this country. Im sure that the Democrats will snatch defeat from the hands of victory as they usually do in elections. Edwards is the only candidate that win in the south and win Independents and Repbulicans. Clinton and Obama will only divide this country, Edwards will unite America. Edwards is a modern day Robert Kennedy.

Edwards 08

I'm not sure of the polls either. I'm for Obama It is time for new life in Washington – Hilary and Bill had their time. (There have been enough Clintons and Bushes). I'm in Nebraska so will not be able to cast my vote until May.

We've been stuck w/ men presidents since we became a democracy, it's time to get a woman in charge to undo the crap that this country has turned to. GO HILLARY!!!!

Barack Hussein Obama will never be President of the United States.

Now for all you Blog readers this is going to be a bit hard to take, so bear with me.

I sat with a group of educated people last night, who lean to the democratic party. They actually think that Barack Hussein Obama could get elected President. I said it, Hussein, his real middle name. I implore my fellow democratic party members to drop this Obama hysteria sooner rather than later. The Republicans would love him to get the nomination, for even the weakest Republican nominee can beat him.

Now before you all call me a bigot or a racist listen carefully. By all account Barack seems like a reasonable, although very inexperienced person. At this point and time in the United States there are some facts of life that many seem to want to ignore when it comes to Obama.

– Barack Hussein Obama grew up more or less a Muslim and attended Muslim schools. The United States is currently at war with half the Muslim world as we speak, yet some of you think a man who grew up a Muslim and has the middle name Hussein can be elected as our President.

– Barack Hussein Obama is a bi-racial person. Of course in the U.S. that means he is black, according to Oprah. At this point in time in the United States, a black candidate who grew up a Muslim, with the middle name Hussein cannot be elected President.

– Barrack Hussein Obama is an admitted past heavy drug user. The news media and idiots like Rush Limbaugh all still like to make fun of the comment from Bill Clinton, that "I did not inhale". That was about smoking a little marijuana. Barack Hussein Obama has self-admitted in writing that he at one time used hard drugs often. At this point in time in the United States, an admitted previous heavy drug user, who is black, and grew up as a Muslim and has the middle name Hussein, cannot get elected in the United States.

– Barrack Hussein Obama has a very, very weak overall record. He has never managed a business, never served in the military, and has no legislative accomplishments to speak of. At this point in time in the United States, a person with a very weak record, who is an admitted previous heavy drug user, who is black, and who grew up a Muslim and has the middle name Hussein, cannot be elected President.

Now that you have all decided I am religious bigot and a racist, I ask you to reexamine the political arena today. You cannot wish away the facts listed above. You cannot change the prejudices in America that still exist today. Maybe someday these things will not matter, but they are still present today.

Sometimes you got to call them like you see them.

Colonel Ray

Iowa caucus is a different animal. groups of people huddle and the biggest huddle wins. How many people think The Hillary huddle will be bigger than the Obama huddle? Does it matter? Ask President Paul Tsongas who won over third place finisher Bill Clinton in 1992. You have to go back to the 1950s to find a challenged democrat who won an iowa caucus and ended up president.

SOMEBODY HAD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT RED INK.I WOULD RATHER HAVE RED INK THAN RED BLOOD ALL OVER. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THIS COUNTRY TO BE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY JUST VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT THIS ELECTION AND SEE HOW MANY 9/11 AND WORSE WE HAVE IN THE FIRST YEAR………..AND SEE IF HILLARY WILL MSS IT UP LIKE BILL DID AND SHE WILL SHE IS ALL ABOUT HILLARY////////

Gosh, was the pollster taking 'research 101′ as a make up after getting an F?? That is just hard to believe!

Oh please please understand that Democrats never get off their butts and come out in droves,Republicans vote more often and Hillary is the chosen one,she will be buried by us.

"A new poll"? —maybe another corrupt poll from the Clinton News Network. Give it a rest!

Hmm this smells of typical Clinton Dirty Tricks. There's a reason CNN has the monicker Clinton News Network. I call BS – I would not be at all surprised if CNN just made this up completely to give Hilbill a boost with a little bit of arm twisting from some of the Clintonistas.

Having followed comments on articles like this, months ago it was Hillary all the way. She’s showing her true Primary Colors (sorry could resist) now, so not many hold her in such high regard but each seems to have their favorite candidate. What we DO agree on is get Bush out but what isn’t so clear is WHO we want in the White House.

Here's a State Senate election results scenario:
A Republican gets 40 %
A Democrat gets 30%
Another Democrat gets 30% which gives the win to the Republican even though 60% of dems don't want a republican.

Because the dems can't make up their minds on who they want, they lose it all. Do we want this to happen? Let's get together on this Primary Democrat Candidate issue or we will lose it and this time ALL.

Yes, I realize this isn't how a presidential race is calculated, but hoepefully you get the idea.

PLEASE VOTE FOR HILLARY ! IN DOING SO.. WE CAN HAVE A DIVISIVE COUNTRY, FILLED WITH SCANDALS.. AND SOMEONE WHO CONSTANTLY WILL SAY ,, I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT.. I DID NOT AUTHORIZE THAT.. HASN'T ANYONE SEEN THE WRITING ON THE WALL ? CAN'T ANYONE SEE THAT SHE IS SCRIPTED WITH EVERY MOVE AND EVERY MOVE MADE WITH A FOCUS GROUP.. WAKE UP AMERICAN BEFORE ITS TOO LATE !!!

The Clinton's don't loose and they won't start now. The reason the Republicans are "foaming at the mouth" at the idea of a Hilary run b/c the truth is they know that they CAN'T beat the Clinton's and they hope this childish reverse psychology will work on the Democrats and push them into Obama's camp. Once he get the nomination watch what the Rep. do to him, it will make Mark Penn's evil negative attacks look like a walk in the park. Don't be an idiot an fall for another Republican trick, again. They want you to think that they (Rep.) want to run against Hilary, truth is they are terrified of her b/c they know her and Bill will wipe the floor with them. She is smart and very well spoken in the debates, once more people see that, they will open up and vote for her. This junk about Republicans "wanting" to run against her IS A BLUFF, call em on it.

This poll is SUCH a fix, and shame on any naive person who didn't see this coming from a mile away! It's all fiction anyway, and Caucus Day will prove it.

Hillary will be the Democratic Nominee. Obama doesn't have enough experience. Only in the Senate for two years. Maybe down the road, but not now.

Experience trumps talking heads every time. If you want EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP HILLARY IS YOUR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT. If you want an EXPERIMENTAL president then you can choose from a number of other choices. OH WAIT- GW BUSH was an EXPERIMENT in INEXPERIENCED leadership wasn't he? And he can't even speak english.

Regardless of this or that poll, Hillary's main problem will ironically be her fame and/or notoriety. Realistically, if she's the nominee, you have to admit the same statistical number of people will be voting FOR her rabidly as there will be voting AGAINST her. That leaves all the undecideds or independents in the middle. Hillary will have 16 years of her and Bill's political life in the public eye to contend with. I think that is going to be her albatross. I find it hard to believe that more than half of those undecideds will break in her favor over a virtual Republican unknown or someone with less time in the national spotlight. Democrats and Liberals like to say "anyone but Bush again" but you have to realize that Bush isn't running this time and there is a HUGE population of voters who are similarly thinking "anyone but the Clintons again." Many Bush-haters are so pro-Hillary that they think there couldn't be possibly be any or as many Hillary-haters as them. There are. They just haven't all bubbled to the surface because a group whose people are mostly in power doesn't need or have the time to make waves. If she is the nominee, I think a surprising backlash of Hillary-haters will come forward. This could ultimately tip the undecideds/independents away from Hillary.

I've been expecting the surge and Clinton win in Iowa.

No one wants to say it but when it comes down to it the people of Iowa will not vote for a black man for President. Had this been Michigan, Illinois or South Carolina — it could happen. Not in Iowa.

As for the Republicans on this board gloating: I am a registered Republican and for the life of me can't understand this nonsense about Clinton being easier to beat.

Folks, Huckabee CANNOT win several key states in teh general election including — Ca, Penn, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Washington State, Wyoming, Nevada or New Mexico. He could even lose his home states of Arkansas.

Romney can't even win his home state of Mass much less Florida, Ohio, Penn, California.

The best Republican candidate was and still is Mcain.

Who should care which Democrat candidate is the nominee when they all support policies and institutions that continuously fail the people that depend on them?

For instance, is it even a question in some people's minds as to whether or not public schools do their job well? If we want our kids to be educated well with public assistance, why wouldn't we just give each other money to use to educate their kids at schools that do the job well? That way failing schools would just go bankrupt and others would jump in to do the job better and be profitable?

This is stupid. Polls do not change that drastically in one week. My guess is that Obama will win and probably win big. His only real opponent is Hilary and nearly every reason she gives to vote for her is very weak. Being the first lady does not give you experience at being President and everyone knows she went to NY so she could eventually run for President. The woman is not who America needs to lead this country.

Yay Hillary! Substance trumps glitz every time!

the bible never said the "anti-christ" had to be a woman

CHANGE!! Hillary will not win, watch this space. Obama will win by landslide. He is the only one who can unite America and heal us from our ugly past.

Posted By John, Minneapolis MN : December 24, 2007 9:20 pm
I am proud of our past. I think we are a country worth emulating and no reason to feel guilty about anything.

HRC primary win is the best outcome for Ron Paul, so I'm all for it. When the general eletion comes down to a pro-war dem, and a pro-war repub, versus an anti-war independent. The polls have consistently been showing a majority against the war. How can HRC run from here record in full support of an idiotic war and against impeachment of those responsible?

Why do the weakest minds most often have the loudest voices? So many of the comments in this thread are stunningly ignorant. Stop identifying with your party just because you assume they identify with you. When more than half of you say "Republican" or "Democrat" it's painfully obvious that you don't even know what those terms mean, or how they evolve over time. We've fractured our own society far better than any external malicious interest ever could have, or could have hoped for. Sad days, obvious decline, and the half-wits just raise their voices, lower their rhetoric, and willfully degrade America.

One wonders if Idiocracy was a comedy, or a study.

You CNN folks will say anything to get the Clintons back.Hence the CLINTON NEWS NETWORK

I guess Iowans finally saw through Barack, the slick Senator from Saudi Arabia. He is the favorite of Jihadist, Wahhabist and Islamists. One wonders why ?

Hillary might not be perfect but we don't want no Manchurian candidate controlled by House of Saud. We already see the damage Saudis have done to us with proxies on their payroll running the US State Department.

Hey Gang,
The polls mean nothing! Do you all really think that the mood of Iowa voters changed in 4 days and now Hillary is up 15 points? Polls are for selling newspapers nothing more! Of course CNN is the "Clinton News Network." Here is my prediction. Hillary will win in the Primary and lose in the general election. The Republicans put up a loser candidate in '96, Bob Dole. Great guy, lousy candidate. It will be the same with Hillary. Great lady, lousy candidate!

Ron Paul received contributions from over 100,000 different people this quarter. He received $18,000,000 from those 100,000 people. His support is wide and deep. Look around your town and notice you see RP signs everywhere. Grab a cup of coffee and go to http://freeme.tv

CNN = Clinton News Network, as always.
I doubt this poll completely. This sounds like a desperate and transparent push poll, designed to rally Clinton's troops.

VOte based on 600 people.. are u kiddin' me.. This is democracy where less than 1% people of the nation will vote!!

Nice fourth grader discussion going on here.

Someone mentioned the economy and needing Hillary Clinton to fix it. Thus far she has proposed expanding the government's role in the economy. If the goal is to expand the economy, why would pulling resources from you and me and increasing the participation of the most inefficient part of our lives help? Common sense tells us that the more likely result would be a drag on the economy.

A reason people dislike the Clintons — and politicians of all stripes — is because they make these "1+1=3″ arguments that defy common sense and rarely accomplish their intended goals. They are seen as disingenuous and their followers blind.

It would be really refreshing for all of us to keep in mind what the goals are and hold our elected officials to account for truly meeting them or not.

These polls are all plus or minus 4-6%. That means Hillary could be at 32% or she could be 20%. Also, I don't know anyone under 30 with a land line phone, so these people are not in any poll numbers. And I live in Iowa and know for a fact 75% of the caucus goers don't really make up there mind until the last week. Ask President Dean.

hahaha yet again here goes CNN making up numbers to support there canidate I really doubt the quality of this poll

Oh I also really like how CNN gets to choose the comments it wants to post CNN is getting as biased as fox

I live in IOWA and think that Iowa will do for Hillary what they did for Howard Dean in '04….. Obama and Anderson will be harder to beat but then after Hillary gets done working them over they will be a lot weaker…

Like leading lambs to slaughter – bring it on, the Republicans can best her with one hand tied behind their back, just to make it fair.

I doubt too many men have actually changed their minds. I suspect that some of those undecideds are starting to decide. And it's in an interesting direction.

Lets see her Christmas list for everyone,
You'll get this, you'll get that and oh thats right I'll give you this too. Yep everyone will get everything but nobody has to pay for it because its free.
I am getting too old to worry about it but you go ahead and vote her in, about two-three years you'll see how free it is.
By the way I've got some property you probably would like to buy, or maybe a bridge or two.
Pinch yourself you live in a dream world or maybe just stupid.

The way republicans want this caucus to go: Hillary 1st – negatives to high, probably lose to the rep. nom. Obama 2nd – 40 percent would vote for a black, 40 percent wouldn't and the repubs are hoping that the 20% would have an alone in the voting booth moment and vote for the white rep. nom. And then there's Edwards who the Reps fear the most- trial lawyer with $400 haircuts and would still win the general election by 6-12%. The Bush factor makes him an absolute lock and that's why they're trying to build up the other 2 and tear him down… i will be hoping for Obama but am voting dem. in Nov. regardless who the nom. is.

Yeah, sure. And Gallup is reporting today that Hillary and Bush are the "most admired."

Good one…LOL.

These polls area about as reliable as the weather forecast on the 10pm news. No better than 50-50 that they know what they're talking about.

Not even Democrats will vote to further tarnish the Presidency with another Clinton.

Obama suddenly falling behind just confirms that these things can change in the blink of an eye . . . or an Oprah, in this case.

Looks like eight years of Team Clinton. Again.

I sense this poll to be skewed for it is hard to believe that a candidate can go from a tie to a 15 point lead virtually overnight absent of a huge event to their favor and I just don't see that for Hillary.

The Clinton News Network strikes again..

Are we to believe that democratic "MEN" prefer Clinton over Obama? If true this explains what is wrong with the democratic party. No men.

Of course is popularity is going down, when you associate yourself with Oprah what do you expect?

what amazer me is the fact that no one ever shows the questions. . .they always show their candidate in a favorable light. . .look at the questions and you'll see the slant. . .we should be looking at the facts of their votes and track record. . .

I wouldn't believe CNN if they told me today was Wednesday.

OBAMA! or HUCKABEE! that should be the contest

Other than Al Gore, Ms Clinton is by far the most competant person as an option to become President

Posted By Dan Houston Texas : December 26, 2007 12:45 pm

Dan -> You should really cut back on that peyote down there …..

OBAMA IS A GREAT SPEAKER, but a debater he is not. He can get crowd going with his preacher voice, but doesn't make any sense when trying to differenciate himself from the other DEM. candidates. In every debate he was in he lost b/c of his intellectual monotone self.

My point is Barak Obama if elected the Dem. Nominee will get destroyed in the debates which is a major part of the general election. Unless Barak Obama uses his fake preacher voice.

CNN-Clinton's News Network
Thanks for flattering her

I'd vote for Hillary or Obama. They both remind me of my dad.

The real story here is the steady climb of Ron Paul in the polls to double digits despite the continued non-MSM coverage of his campaign.

If you want to be scared read the book The Third Terrorist written by an NBC reporter about the Oklahoma bombing,(The book is available on newsmax.com) she did the work that the Clinton controled FBI failed to do! Clinton was at the lowest presidencial aproval numbers ever recorded 23%, if look at the archives for the Whashington Post on polls months before you will see how low he went before Oklahoma. He was about to be booted by the DNC for 1996 they where seriously looking to replace him as the presidential candidate, because of all the scandals starting with White Water, then Ruby Ridge, Waco Hillary's incompitence on stealing our Health care system, and the country distrusted the Clintons by a large margin! So here comes the Oklahoma Bombing, the first news flash Muslim men running from the scene dropping a BOZUKA wearing blue running sweats. that disapeared off the news, then Clinton got on the News and acted presidential kissing bloody babies and huging fire fighters had his Buddy at TIME mag put a bloody baby on the cover, and he cried! he went from the dog house to 60% aproval because women thought he cared by crying! Ask yourself why where there no FBI or ATF in the building or their staffs, their offices where vacant! Clinton read every thing about Hitler he was a big fan of Hitlers propganda he even gave Hitlers Gun control speech of 1935 that was transalated word for word to a gun control rally! This was his Riechstagg, he allowed it to happened, read the book she has dates, names, gas reciepts hotel reciepts witnesses that say the complete oposite of what Clinton claimed, she presented Janet RENO with evidence the FBI never even went after and RENO told her we got our man it's over! It is a great read! Terry Nicholas met with the head terrorist in Indoneasia months before the bombing, the fertilizer bomb has always been a trait of Muslim terrorists! It's funny when the barracks in Lebonon blew up in 1985 it was the a fertilizer bomb just like Oklahoma! Read read the book! Look up TWA Flight 800, same thing he covered up a terrorist attack because it would hurt his chances of being re elected! My question to the entire country do we want these BOZO's back in power. I think not, don't be stupid and except the Clintons medias version of everything do some research! Bill Clinton was the first President to have a Foriegn terrorist attack on the USA in Modern times the First Twin Tower Bombing, gee it was the same as the Oklahoma bomb a fertilizer bomb but a little bigger!, he failed to go after the Culprits, because he was a draft dodger and a Lawyer he prosecuted a blind Shiek instead of leveling their country! My point is these Clintons must be defeated! We can not let Hillary get her hand on our NUKES, these Clintons dangerous, read all about TWA 800, Oklahoma Ben Laden 9 times Clinton could of caputured or killed him, but he got a 23 million dollar donation to his Library fund from Saudia Arabia, investigate before you vote! NO Bush No Clinton ever again!

Hillary is a pandering charlatan!

hey all ,
I really cannot understand why some peole like Obama. He is not thorough enogh with real issues and it is very clear his weeknesses when he speaks on issues. Come on get real .
Hillary is unique person and i believe she can fix the problems that we face today. Talk to people around the world and see how they look at Hiallry. Lot of respect nothing else.
she is the only one in thepack who can beat any republican.
hope people make good decision

I believe it's because the white popele of Iowa would rather nominate a she-devil than a black man.

It's looking more and more like Hillary and Romney… mark my words, people, you heard it here first. And Hillary will lose, because she's by far THE WEAKEST of the three top Democratic candidates… Unfortunately, Iowa is going to give us the same kind of "gift" they did with John Kerry, in 2004, when he edged out John Edwards and Howard Dean. An unelectable, establishment, sound-byted, scripted candidate who will twist and parse words to sound "moderate" and "centrist". THANKS IOWA…

I agree with William from Hampton that we need a good Socialist to take over the economy and meddle in all our affairs. Maybe Hillary could take more of my money and spend it better than I could because she is "nicer" than me. Hail Hillary.

The Democrats nominating Hillary would show just how stupid they really are. For one thing, how can they even know what she is going to do? Everything she has said or done since bubba was first elected was to get herself elected. Secondly, they have to know how hated she is outside, and even inside, her party. It would be pretty sad if Democrats watched Bush send this country into a nose dive, only to elect another Republican. We should all join together and pressure Michael Bloomberg to run. None of the nominees on either side are worthy of being president.

Imagine, Hillary in the White House, her husband screwing with every Jane in the nation, and Hillary menopausal with a finger on the button. We are doomed!

It's funny to hear Democrats talking about a possibility of a presidential win in 2008 when they're still talking about how the last two were stolen. If the Bush family has a way to steal elections I'm sure they'll throw that same support behind the candidate of choice. Hillary will be Bush lite.

This isn't on a poll on Her Royal Thighness, it's a poll about Slick. Where has she been lately? All the coverage has been on him shooting his mouth off. The Corn Heads there still haven't figgered out HE's not running, but his idiotic wife is.

Check out the following link for latest average polls in Iowa, which shows Clinton's getting momentum with the lead, while Obama's loosing

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ia/iowa_democratic_caucus-208.htmlit.

ah, I forgot Fred Thompson…

…never mind, he's dead in the water anyway

I love how the "trolls" on these news sites say how Hillary is going to charge the Repulican base if she is nominated but they fail to site the fact that she will also charge the Democratuc base. Her level of divisiveness may cause such a riff but let's not forget the level of support she commands.

Yeah, give us Hillbillary. Even if she gets elected (God forbid) it means at least 4 years of great entertainment with all the scandles, selacious sex, dirty deals with the Chinese, etc. It's almost worth wrecking whats left of the country just to watch.

Please vote for Hillary. With her in there we will have nothing to fear, but fear itself. I believe all she says. She is our savior.

Huckabee: Creationist, but even his fellow Baptists think he's pandering to the Evangelicals.

Ron Paul: Has a shot, but only if he goes Independent

Romney: flipflops, too Mormon

McCain: Too old, too much a toady to the rabid christian faction, simply irrelevant

Giuliani: Corrupt & deceptive…and probably the GOP's best shot

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Edwards: Smarmy huckster

Obama: Inexperienced, "Hey! Look at me! I'm BLACK!"

Hillary: willing to compromise to get results…any results, unfortunately

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there's a lot of talk "Hillary is the dream Democratic nominee for the GOP", but really, who have they got who really stands a chance against her?

R0n P4ul FTW!

I find it hard to believe that everyone puts so much value in the polls, but then again they also put value in the fact that their popular vote will be the deciding factor. I don't think so, look at history. Yes Hillary may be ready to lead us on day one , but she will lead us the same place that Bush has, that why Bill and George Sr. are such good friends. The country needs to smarten up and vote as if their life depends on it, we need a completely different direction. Obama is a person with principals that will make a difference.

Hillary is weak..without the impeached embarassment and phalandering Slick Willy her so called husband, know one would know her name. And thats the only thing she can hang her hat on. But that must be a great thing for a Democrate

RON PAUL WILL BEAT HER EASILY

I would like to quote the great St John
the revelator,
"SO, COME, LORD JESUS!" Rev 22:20

cheat cheat and steal
bill and hilary are the real deal ..yeah right!

its all crap

isn't possible that they manipulated electronic information to suit the needs of hillary's failing campaign

real people really don't want her

but the electronic idiots of imagination adore her

i hate the NWO

and those who support it!

Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!…for NY Senator again that is. We don't need another Clinton in the White House that whole-heartedly supported Bush policies up until they decided to run for president.

Let's change the course of America for the better…OBAMA IN '08!

Yes I'm REALLY shocked. Actually, I would be shocked if a stupid poll like this DIDN'T come out 8 days before the Iowa caucus. Who owns American Research Group – Bill Clinton? Desperado!!

I don't live in one of the early voting states, but I know many Dems who are disturbed by the thought that HRC will be the Dem nominee. I am concerned the party is making the same mistake it did in '04 with a nominee that doesn't inspire and ultimately loses the general election. I am also concerned with the large number of die-hard dems who are planning on not voting in the general election if she is the nominee. I just don't think she can grow her base. She is too well-known and divisive.

Hillary ready to lead from day 1??? What or who has she ever led? Nothing!!! No record of leadership at all. At least for Bush, he attempted to unite the country but the Bush hating dems fought him from day 1 in every aspect. Expect the same thing with Hillary, probably worse as she has already alienated half the country. Experience??? Don't get me started, and no, I don't count flipping tea pots in Ireland as experience – NYT even questions her 'experience'. Half the country does not trust her or like her. The other half either is blind or will learn not to like her. Her social program ideas are right in align with european socialism. She will say anything, do anything, that she feels will win her votes or power. No core values. Very vindictive. Will get the irs on you if she perceives you as an enemy or threat. Will not talk to the press or have open press conferences – nobody else could ever possibly get away with that, not Bush, nobody but media favorite darling Hillary. Remember, everybody wants to end the war, some of us just don't want to end by running with tails between our legs like Pelosi, Reid, and Hillary would do. BTW, didn't some say the war was lost and the surge was a failure??? Idiots! At least Bush sticks with his decisions and sees them through until he has quantifyable justification to change, that's a leader, whether you agree with him or not.

Isn't this the polling company owned by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist?

Fred, Rudy, or Mitt could beat any Dem in the field. Huckacide is real though, and Right-wingers need to re-examine their choice. Huckabee is a wolf in Religious clothing: he's a tax-raising Illegal-immigrant-friendly- Rape and Murder-Pardoning Liberal. He's Weak on Defense and part of the 'Blame-America First' movement to boot. Wake up people!

Yeah right, like I'm gonna believe anything Communist News Network says.

LOL!

Polls aside, as an independent who has voted for Dems and Republicans, the ONLY issue I care about this time around is stopping the invasion of the USA by Mexico that Birdbrain Bush seems oblivious to. Do the Dems have a candidate I can trust to stop the invasion? No. All I see on their side are whiny girly men and a dedicated Communist/feminist. Do the Republicans have a candidate I can trust to stop the invasion? Maybe. Tancredo, Hunter, and Paul seem willing to bite the bullet and do what's necessary. The rest of the Republican candidates are hardly any different from Democrats; smiling liars all. Right now I'm leaning towards Ron Paul because of his positions on the Federal Reserve, IRS, foreign aid, etc. It's about time we sent the International bankers packing and let all those ungrateful foreign countries fend for themselves.

I'm sorry but I just do not believe these Hillary poll numbers.
It sounds like a little "poll twisting" is taking place by some of Hillary's partisans at CNN. Who are they trying to fool? Who would buy that when even the NYT is now taking a step back?

This poll is a fluke, and highly questionable. The trend lines in all the other recent polls are clear: Obama passed Hillary in Iowa a couple of weeks ago, and continues to maintain a small lead. See for yourself.

http://www.pollster.com/08-IA-Dem-Pres-Primary.php

Please people. I see all this talk about "changing the country" and "setting things right" and blah blah blah. If you were really serious, then why stop the Clinton/Bush royal see-saw and get someone fresh in? In a way I cringe to see Mitt being so heavily endorsed by the Bush clan, cause I want a clean break from the past 16 years. Let it go people….

Just because dumb New Yorkers elected this carpetbagger doesn't mean the rest of the country want her for their president. GO AWAY HILLARY!

I am a life long Democrat, but I hope we lose the election in 2008 if she is the new face (new?) of our party.

I agree w/Anthony from New York

The wild swings in the polls absent of any real news simply highlight the unreliability of the polls. The only "poll" that matters is the vote.

Left-wing outfits like CNN, Zogby, NYT, and WaPo like to "report" polls that reflect what THEY would like to see happen, then when people vote differently they begin to speculate about voter fraud b/c the result are so different than they're unreliable polls. It's just a routine Dem media strategy, and they're doing what they can to help the Ice Queen of NY.

PLEASE!
I smell the Clinton machine here. When all else fails fiddle the numbers… and who better than CNN? Planted debated questions, sycophantic "journalists", absurd polls; all CNN's stock in trade.
The Clintons are desperate. There's one thing an "inevitable" candidate can't afford, and that's to lose early. Ask Howard Dean.

Some New Yorker wrote a post about the "neo-christian nutcases in the south"

I thought liberals were all about being accepting of everyone. Guess I was wrong.

If Hillary becomes president, kiss the republic good bye and say hello to her version of socialism.

I find it funny that people with such bad grammar and spelling make such strong political statements. Spellchecker people!!! The media uses polls to influence public opinion and force their agenda. Do your own investigating and decide if you want more of the same old politics with Hillary or an unknown with Obama. As a conservative I would rather see Hillary nominated because she gives the republicans the best chance of victory. On the other hand if we are going to lose I would rather have Obama as my president. I think he could do a much better job of bringing the country together than Clinton.

The Arabs are now happy. They want Hillary to win because 1993 to 1995 more Jews were killed under the other Clinton than the 20 years prior (1973 to 1992). The Arabs are hoping the same will happen under a President Hillary.

It is sad but true. Wake up world.

Here it is again. The work of spin doctors, smear campaigns, and political capital determining the fate of honest hard-working Americans. It is obvious that since none of us who frequent this post are able to change the political system that corrodes this nation from the within, we might attempt to rally in an attempt to engage the government from the bottom. The problem as I see it is that everyone wants to complain, but to actually act upon an issue requires time, heartache, and dedication for the good of someone other than ourself; a trait rarely seen in these days. The focus is on self wealth, self sustainment, and self preservation but it is not realized that selfless acts of a broader scope directly affect individual efforts of a more narrow scope. There were times, well before my own, that this country rallied behind the ideas of social equality and justice. Where have these times gone? Perhaps the drugs induced decades of the 60s and 70s caused gave us illusionary courage. Whatever the case, it's not a matter of republican or democrat, black or white, christian or morman, male or female, but of who is best for the job. The racial and social profiling that have been detremental to the actualization of the American dream are still prevelant, but keep more under wraps. So many Americans refuse to educate themselves politically and stand bewildered by the circumstances that plague them as backlash. I've heard, "my vote doesn't count", and it doesn't because you don't believe it does. Because you have lost faith in a system whose principles are not corrupt, but whose players are. Become a player. Now as for this poll, it's probably bogus. If it's not who cares? Do something more than just write about it. Affect change. Support your candidate with more than a vote. The corrupt will always be among us. We should not let it stifle the progress of the righteous. I'm neither repulican nor democrat. I'm for the best man or woman. It's unfortunate that we argue with each other about who the best candidate is and then wonder why we see so much partisanship on the national level. They are in fact only representatives of us, arent they? We desperately need to unify as a country, under a leader or otherwise. The fate of greatness, and survival of our legacy hinges upon it.

Even half her own party wouldn't vote for her on a bet!

Posted By Charles in Salt Lake City, UT : December 24, 2007 8:08 pm

Glad to see you putting the positive spin on things. Keep your chin up and your upper lip stiff. Keep ignoring the fact that the same polls that support your postition are also showing that at least 3/4 of Republican primary voters are unhappy with all of their party's front runners. For a party that normally has so much discipine and tends to annoint their front running logical choice, this trend does not bode well for their immediate future.

I would love to see Hillary as the nominee, becuase she would be blasted by any of the GOP. Our country doesn't need a far left pres. like her

CNN's poll, what did you expect? CNN = Clinton News Network.

IvyRep

Is it any surprise that the Clinton News Network has Billary magically ahead by double digits a week before the caucus?

I cannot for the life of me understand why or how the Social Left of this country could ever vote for Billary. A true Democrat might vote for Richardson, but there are no Democrats left in the USA. Why the Left/Socialists want to turn America into Europe is beyond my understanding. Why Al-Jazeera West (CNN) keeps pulling so hard for a particular candidate (Billary) is also beyond my understanding since they hold themselves up as a fair(?) network.

If Billary is elected is elected soon we won't be able to tell our own country from those like France and Holland. But then, she has already promised 'free' healthcare, 'free' money for all babies born, etc etc. Why are you socialists so easily taken advantage of by the Lefts lies….sigh…

Just like you Bush-hating Socialists claim Bush isn't YOUR President, Hillary and any other Leftist President you may elect won't be mine. Ever.

Ladies and gentleman. Here are the facts. Despite our continued efforts to end racism and sexism, they both are still alive and well. Neither Obama or Clinton stand a chance of garnishing more than 49% in the general election. Another fact not easily swallowed is that our economy is strong, the war effort is succeeding, and the majority democrats have been impotent, largely because what they thought was the consensus of a majority of Americans was that of only a few.

Hopefully people are coming to their senses and realizing that Senator Clinton is the best candidate all around!
You naive republicans who believe she is the candidate you can beat will eat your words next year!
Hillary Clinton 2008!!

Other than Al Gore, Ms Clinton is by far the most competant person as an option to become President

I have a rather unique perspective being a Republican whose first and last choices are actually Democrats. I'm a huge Obama fan and would hate it for the country if the Democrats were to squander a guy I think the entire country could be proud of by nominating a divisive partisan.

Enough with the Bush's & Clinton's already!

What went on for real at OKC?
What happened to the third terrorist?
Clinton said we will get him and then nothing.
Even the news media stopped all talk about him.
It sure looks like he was from iraq along with the other 4 the FBI was looking for.
Could it be that Saddam was behind OKC and Clinton did not want to go after Saddam and Bush did what Clinton should have done?
What about 200 people seeing a missile hit the TWA aircraft and we are told it was not a missile. What about all those people that did nothing wrong at Waco and Clinton did nothing. No way do i want Clinton again.

its sad because the republicans are just about foaming at the mouth at the possibility of a clinton victory… there is no other candidate whom they would rather have to tear to shreads and galvanice the neo-christian nutcases in the south to mobilize in an anti-clinton free-for-all.. Its astonishing that so many americans are so stupid not to see that she will be the most divisive candidate in all of time… but then again we did elect george bush twice… I guess its normal for democrates to be blindly stupid?

As divisive as she was in the debate on driver licensees for illegal aliens… you need to wake up.

WHY DOES MR. OBAMA CALL HIMSELF A DEMOCRAT AND NEVER TAKE A STAND

That's what Democrats do. They don't take stands. They get walked over because they lack a spine and the Republicans have to come in and clean up the mess.

Fred '08!

What about the National Enquirer articled this week on John Edwards?

oh god. Hillary makes me sick. What's wrong with people?

Go Hillary Go!!! I agree with the first post…the Dems always succeed in nominating a crap candidate…crappier than the Reps…which is tough to do.

Republicans pretend that they want Hillary because she will be easy to defeat. They only do that in a feeble attempt to scare us away from nominating her. She is one of the few people that can completely dismantle the GOP opposition and they are scared.

Regardless of what the polls say, I'd love for the Democrats to nominate Mrs. Clinton as their candidate, because even if she wins the presidency I will have the pleasure to vote against her … and besides, although a scary thought, it'll be a lot of fun then just watching the Clintons to be at the driver's seat again!

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HILLARY, YOUR TIME FOR HONORING YOURSELF WILL SOON BE OVER.

Yes, once The Glacier has the nod of the dems let us all get re-educated on every slimy Clinton crime that can crawl back out of the dank dark grave of what is the real Clinton legacy.

These two belong in jail not anywhere near the levers of this nation's real power.

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The Demonicrats in congress and Harry Reid, with the help litle Piss on America Peelosi have failed to fund the FEC Federal Election Commision because they did not want any Republicans on it on the commision it's now at a standstill. Now we have no FEC for IOWA OR ANY PRIMARIES, so Clintons Voter Fraud machine is in full force, they pay people to caucus and other states to vote by giving the money food, beer, cigarettes,sex, etc. Where is the outrage we now have no ability to monitory the CLINTON VOTER FRAUD! This should scare the country Dingy Harry REID and PEELOSI made the USA like a bannana republic, Hillary is the next Chavez! Since CNN CLINTON NEWS NETWORK AND CHINA NEWS NETWORK HAVE GIVEN THE CLINTONS CHINESE GOVERNMENT MONEY and created false polls thinking Americans will be fooled again! I think it's time to investigate why we in the greatest country in the world has no ability to monitor our own elections,(where is the UN what a laugh) this is a scandals beyound scandals! Why is it Criminals like Clinton are so power hungry to destroy this country, could it be they are a puppet of Chinese Government after all BILL Clinton sold China 35 years of our classified nuke and satlite technology for campaign contributions remember Riady(A MUSLIM WHO WORKS WITH CHINA) Wang, Charlie Trie, the Budist Monks, and Hillary's NORMAN HSU! (treason)! Don't be fooled again, time for a Counrty wide clensing of the most corrupt people in America the KLINTOONS, reject any notion that these crimionals will ever run anything including this country again! Don't be fooled again!NO BUSH NO CLINTON EVER AGAIN END THIS ROTTEN DYNASTY NOW, Call congress we need answers why the FEC is not in full force, DEOMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD was rampant in 06, the 9 attorneys BUSH fired where fired for one reason they all refused to prosecute DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD tincluding the theft of the Washingon State election for Govenor, 9 out 9 where Clinton appointed, enough said!

Obama in trouble?
Tell it to Oprah.
Oops, already did that.
He needs therapy now.
How about Dr Phil?

What a joke. News is officially a joke. Put a big ole stamp on it. I mean, the news has been a joke for a long time, but this is just the cherry on top. I have yet to run into ONE person who supports this lady. Whether its CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, etc etc…we all know you're owned by large corporations. Why hide it anymore? Why don't you just come out and say it already…"We flat out LIE to the people in order to press on our interests."

Its just fantastic

"Maybe God has listened to our prayers. America needs a strong president. Its time for a woman to bring her view of how a country should be run.

Merry Christmas Hillary!

Posted By Amy : December 25, 2007 12:29 am"

Amy, you should probably lay off the nog …

I agree with Edina from MN. CNN went OUT OF THEIR WAY to NOT SAY who did the poll. They said who did the last poll (American Research Group), but the whole article rambles on without sourcing the poll. You don't drop by 50% and you don't DOUBLE your support in one week.

If you think Hillary is divisive, deceitful, a compulsive liar and, in general a socialist, but you want a change from the war-obsessed, free spending corporatists now running Washington, why not become a Ron Paul supporter? Google Ron Paul. He really is a decent, humble and honorable man who will bring REAL change to D.C.

I wish this poll was accurate if for no other reason than it shows Ron Paul in double digits for the first time.

Why on Earth would anyone believe ANYTHING that CNN says or prints.
Get a grip. They are just barely above MSNBC on the food chain and have about as much credibility.

CNN, you slant the news and now your so called poll????? You and hillary are a match…what a joke.

What happened in the past couple election cycles that the Demoocrats seem to want to nominate someone that is NOT electable in the general election? If being first-lady was a qualifcation for being president why haven't we elected a former first lady as president yet?

Ha ha ha ha…

the Clinton News Network makes a last ditch attempt to shape public perception/opinion of their anointed candidate by publishing the 'results' of a nameless bogus poll.

Ha ha ha ha ha.. Oh CNN

CNN wants to delete comments here because they hit too close to home. Fu&K CNN!

"MILLIONS of Americans are praying for Hillary to win the nomination…MOST of them Republicans!"

Amen to that. Hilary will be easy to beat in a general election. It's Barack that scares me.

YES…Go, Billary.

The Clinton News Network continues carrying the Clinton Water. Billary will be polarizing if she wins the nomination, and the GOP will win!

Go, Billary! Bubba, keep running your mouth. Of course, you have to give your bimbos a break to do so.

I don't believe that poll. I suspect Clinton Inc. is behind that "manufactured" poll. I've been paying alot of attention to this stuff, and the momentum is soundly with Obama, then suddenly out of nowhere, Clinton has a double digit lead over Obama? I don't believe it!

Interesting how CNN always seems to come through for Clinton while other polls always are different. I wonder, could this mean the big rich executives (conservative) are backing Clinton hmmmm.

I received one of these calls and was one of the 600 Republican respondents. I wouldn't read too much into this poll. The pollster was clearly trying to lead me into showing a preference for Rudy Guiliani. It wasn't even just his voice inflection that made it clear he was trying to bolster Rudy's numbers, after I answered the pollster asked me if I wanted to "reconsider". While this doesn't could be an issue with only one phone pollster, and doesn't by itself explain the Democratic results, if these same games were being played who knows why they wanted to come out ahead on that side.

Any democrat is infinitely better than any Republican.

Rodham-Clinton is an abomination. You see this woman, you feel like you want to smack her — figuratively speaking mind you.

I guarantee the American people will NEVER allow old (see the famous Drudge-Report Rodham-Clinton photo) Rodham-Clinton to ever again occupy the White House.

There is a zero possibility the American people will take Rodham-
Clinton seriously for the role of Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces during time of war. It's out of the question!

Democrats have a problem: Their two top candidates — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — have no experience that prepares them to hold the highest executive position in the world. It's a little like driving down a busy freeway with a driver trainee at the wheel.

Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the United States. The media has already decided this — they like the idea of a half-black man with a muslim father and muslim stepfather becoming the President of the United States. It doesn't matter that Barack Hussein Obama has never accomplished anything. I live in Illinois, and he has done nothing for us in the brief time he has been in the Senate. We have a serious transit funding problem in Chicago that could force me to lose my job — if I can't get to work, I will not be able to keep my job. Barack Hussein Obama has done nothing to resolve this problem. If Ted Stevens can snag $550M+ to build a bridge in Alaska that no one wants, Barack Hussein Obama should be able to snag a few million to support Chicago transit. All this enthusiasm about Barack Hussein Obama puzzles me — if you like an articulate black man who is charming, then why not vote for Will Smith for President? Sadly, Will Smith has done more for this country than Barack Hussein Obama ever has.

Oh, yeah… We'll see who has egg on their face for this poll… I believe HRC will come in third in Iowa… So let's check back in next week. D.

Hey William from Hampton, VA…..for a minute there I thought you were talking about the Clinton Presidency…now I see you were prognosticating about what the Hillary Presidency might look like.

To those who continue to attempt to perpetuate the myth that Hillary Clinton is too divisive to be elected President, explain how George W Bush could have been re-elected if high negatives and the charge of being divisive are decisive factors
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No one in the HISTORY of politics has ever HAD the negatives that Clinton has. Add to this that Americans KNOW the sleaze they brought to the WH and you will have your answer as to WHY Republicans want Hillary nominated. The Swift Boat Vets have had an entire year to gear up for this.

As for Bush, say what you will but there is no sleaze factor surrounding him. He says what he means and means what he says. Unlike the Clintons, he has always put the safety and security of America 1st and not his political fortunes.

The Clintons, neither of them know a thing about leading. They never make a single move without taking a poll or assembling a focus group.

If Hillary get's the nomination, look for the most lopsided defeat for the Democrats in the history of the Party. There are simply too many people that absolutely hate the woman and this will galvanize the Republicans like nothing else can.

This is what I don't believe… That Obama was ever doing as well as they told us… 4 years ago Dean was way ahead of everyone… Then three days before the primary they reported his lead had suddenly dropped from 15% to 10%. The next day it was 5% and the day after that it was 0%, and then he lost the primary.

No one losses 15% in the polls in three days unless they shoot an old woman on national TV. I think they put Dean ahead to make it more exciting so more people would view their news stories and buy more papers and increase television news ratings.

And no one gains 15% in three days unless they find a way to stop the Sun from exploding.

All I have to say is.. Here we go again..

The important thing to remember about all news sources is that they are privately run corporations with partisan slants. They can be BOUGHT by particular candidates. This has been the case since the inception of the printing press. Accountability needs to start with the source, but sadly, the Yellow Press is alive and well in these United States. Who do you think delegitimatized the Iraq War? Who declared W. Bush's administration a failed presidency? Who has been stuffing meaningless poll numbers and overblown tragedy down our throats for decades? THE PRESS. Perception is reality, and we've been told by our trusted news sources, political pundits and elite experts alike, that the country is in the crap-can, and its somehow ONLY the Republicans' fault. Hillary has Hollywood in her pocket. So did Bill. It is no coincidence that the public is being primed – and duped – into believing that they are our only salvation. It's so subtle and yet so insidious. Just like every other political machine.

Amazing how many folks can be fooled by HuckSTERbee – the high tax, open-the-prison-gates, scamnesty-supporting candidate. The only thing that explains this completely illogical and irrational support is that they are not looking beyond "vote for me – I'm a Baptist minister". Yikes!!!!

Polls are meaningless. Exit Polls had Kerry beating Bush by a landslide, but they were flawed and skewed towards women and urban centers.

There was no way someone as unlikable as Kerry was going to win by anything other than the skin of his teeth in that unlikely event.

Good for CNN, It has done a good job in supporting Hillary. In all CNN polls, Hillary wins…YUCK!

I'm amazed to read the comments posted on this site. To you democrats: Do you really think any of the democratic candidates are truthful in anything they tell you? Not one knows how to tell the truth. Not a one is interested in what is best for this country. They all are looking after their own backsides. Not a one is qualified for the job. To you republicans: Same thing. I don't think there is one candidate on either side who has the qualifications to be president, nor the integrity to do a good job. What you all say about the other side, is more than likely true about the side you are voting for. Every last one of them will lie to us now promising this that and the other thing, but once elected will not follow through. Look back at the last 30-40 years. I may be cynical but there is truth to it. Our country lacks true leadership. You are all bickering over a bunch of nonsense. When the primaries come to California, I don't have a candidate to vote for because there aren't any worth voting for. The synonym for politician is "professional liar". The comments I read on this list show the real problem. We all vote for the candidate who will do what will make US feel better and meet OUR needs and give US what we want. We don't look at the candidates and ask "Who has integrity and will do what's best for our country."

Whether Hillary is up or down, or Obama's lead disappears in IA and NH, here's what I still don't get. Why do people in these few states determine who we get to vote for? Have you ever seen these people on TV? Tell me how people in IA or NH are like people in other states? What are their industries? I can't imagine many high tech industries are in IA or NH? And every time I see someone from NH, they are either old and retired, or someone looking for the next phish concert. What I'm trying to say politely is that these people sure don't seem to represent me or anyone I know.

For the GOP there can be no better holiday gift than Hillary at the top of the ticket for the DEMS – oh yes, the donations will be pouring in like Mexicans at a border crossing

CNN Clinton news network what a bunch of BS, she will loose Iowa, men by an an overwhelming margin hate Hilbillary, 68% White men will never vote for her 59% of White women will never vote for her, and 55% of all Americans will vote against her! She will loose Iowa unless she promised Oboma to be VP. In 08 she loses any general election no matter who runs by a margin of 38-55, and by 49 states even if they try a another Perot(Perot got the contract for the Hilbillary health care scam to administer the money that was decided in 1991 that the Clintons could not win unless they create ad party candidate, 43% twice is not a majority)! She is abosolutely the worst candidate because she is 100000% BS nothing is real, smoke mirrors, name one thing she is qualified to be a president? There is nothing 100% BS no real ability to lead and abosolutely unqualified to be the Commander in Chief! A CNN CLINTON NEWS NETWORKS COMPLETE BS STORY!How much did the Clintons pay for this story in an act of desperation! No one believes your polls because they are always wrong by at least 20%! I find it funny only 4-5 hundred people show up to she Billy Bob the rapist ex president his coatails are very small now he is a hasbin!

Ron Paul will come in third place on the Republican side, the only true anti-war candidate who has the money, the integrity and the momentum to mount a serious challenge to any of the front running corporate controlled Democrats. Obama is a fake anti-war candidate who missed the Kyl-Liberman Iran vote…at least Hillary voted her conscience…to give George Bush the green light to attack another Middle Eastern country under the false auspices of possessing weapons of Mass Distruction.
If any of these front trunning Democrats win, including Hillary and Obama, America and it's Constitution, which is supposed to guarantee/protect civil liberties, loses.

What firm performed the poll? That might be freaking nice to put in the story…ask 3 people, if 2 pick Hillary…naturally she'll be ahead! This story lacks decent journalistic fact, and props up Hillary's sagging, bloated campaign. Did CNN do the poll? How do we, as readers even know?

MILLIONS of Americans are praying for Hillary to win the nomination…MOST of them Republicans! In fact, many people wouldn't mind if she won the presidency: when a Clinton won before, it only took two years of his administration before the country was so sick of his scandals, lies, incompetance, broken campaign promises, and tax hikes, to turn the senate, house of representitives, the majority of the governorships, etc, over the the Republicans. Since Hillary is even MORE of a lying socialist than Bill, she could well finish off the Demorats as a viable political entity forever!

Why do the democrats hate America so much that they would vote for either of these people? I am not thrilled with the present group of Republicans, but at least they are not working against the best interest of this nation like the Democrats are.

And who did the polling and what were the poll questions?

The CLinton News Network is at it again! CNN wants Hillary to win no matter what it takes. This is just another lie!!! I hope Obama kicks her butt. People need to stop watching CNN and or supporting them…

Thanks,

Is anyone getting the idea that this Iowa "Caucus" essay is a bit of a joke? I measures only "activists" who will be willing to spend hours in community meetings etc. It does not measure VOTERS per se.

"We should pause and think before we jump off a cliff with a particular candidate. Hillary will need to get 80% undecideds to win in the general. Long odds unless all the other candidates self-destruct.

Posted By AF Washington DC: December 26, 2007 11:13am"

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AF from Washington DC does this mean that Obambi would have to "get 80% undecideds to win in the general" too

Speculation has it that he will declare himself an Independent if he doesn't get the Dem. nod and run w/Bloomberg!!
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/30/obama-bloomberg-hold-mystery-meeting/

I love the Clintons, nasty and power-hungry, but they know how to win.

The Obama is/was a crack addict and a Muslim worked. The Clintons know how to serve the raw politics that Americans like.

Clinton all the way to November 2008

More poll propaganda delivered to you free of charge by the Clintonistas at CNN. I am sure the Ice Queen solicited the help of many of her comrads in the Democrat-leaning msm; I'm sure they will come through for her or, or course, there will be hell to pay. I don't believe a word CNN says; I don't believe a word the msm says.

The destruction of Populism in America. Time to go back to Ireland.

Remember this is CNN.
It is interesting that there are so many Dems calling those on the right nut jobs.
Then in the next comment always seems to be how bad things are?
Many of us nut jobs think this country is great and we are doing better all the time. But then we are not waiting for a Repug or a Dem to save us lol.
We tend to work for a living.
You whiners carry on and see how that works for you.

Its painfully obvious who CNN wants as our next President. The Clinton campaign should be required to pay them for the advertising they've been doing for her at CNN.

this is such a joke..Democrats cant make up their minds and everyone says they are Ok..yet Repulicans are still not sure..that makes them disheveled?

You are all nuts..Wasn't it Howard Dean who was going to win in Iowa? What a bunch of fools!

Democrats will NEVER choose a Black..it took LIBERAL Massachusetts over 5 decades to elect a Black Gov. who was a Democrat..all the while they and their supporters never noticed that a black Republican had already been elected Attorney Gerneral and then Elected US Senator..all this in the 50's and 60's..the reason this happened was that Black democrats were 'not ready"…funny how Republicans were able to VOTE AND ELECTY A BLACK MAN..AND HE TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT AG AND US SENATOR..all this before LBJ got his civli rights legislation passed..and passed by Republicans at that! And in the end the only reason the Black Democrat was elected was that a White Democrat was caught Disenfrachising Blacks in Boston during his campaign to save his seat in the Mass. Legislature!
WHEN WILL BLACK DEMOCRATS BE READY FOR HIGHER OFFICE? I believe it was Bill or Hill who said Barack isn't Ready..Wow..what a Democrat Flash ..if they had their choice NEVER…and the Mass.(WHITE) dem was found GUILTY OF PERJURY AND LOST HIS SEAT..DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT!

"Yeah right, and who is the poll by?"

You need to ask, Why?

It's the "Clintoon News Network," don't ya know!!

Sheesh!

This is a CNN poll, I don't believe it

As someone mentioned earlier in a post, "about half of democrats wouldn't vote for Hillay."

I don't know if it's anywheres near that high of percentage, but I do know that my brother and sister-in-law are democrats and they both have said THEY WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR HILLARY.

It's an obvious old trick from the Clinton News Network camp — part of a desperation tactic to garner every possible vote. Who, after all, likes to vote for a clear loser?

Yes, and Howard Dean was leading the polls going into the 2004 caucuses. Yeoowh!!!

"among likely Democratic caucus-goers", so who was polled? I have nothing against a woman president, but not Hilarious, she is the wring woman for the job. I just do not trust her. Even as she tries to appear more "warm", we all seem to know it is only a facade, she is just "re-inventing" herself.

America will not elect any of the neocommie dems in '08, especially Clinton. We spent the better half of the last century fighting against communist ideals and few Americans will vote for a candidate that champions the idea of annexing private oil company revenue for the "good of the country". I wouldn't trust the government to tie my shoes, so why would I want them to have to power to take the profits of private organizations and place it in some misguided program? No thanks.

Look, I am a reformed Evangelical, went back to Catholicism. The thing about many Evangelicals is that they have the mentality of 'The sheep hear the shepherd. They listen for his voice. They follow him wherever he goes.' To these Evangelicals, Pastor Huckabee has become that shepherd on a national scale as the one who represents Jesus the Good Shepherd. Pastor Huckabee is full of scandals, but they ignore it because he's the shepherd and the sheep follow the shepherd wherever he goes. The consequences of the philosophy are often not good. On an extreme scale this was the Rev. Jim Jones in Guyana. On a lesser scale happening every day it is people giving away their life's savings to their pastors or the teleministers. If these Evangelical pastors were poor themselves and the money really went to the poor it would be one thing. If they gave all the money for example, to the suffering Christians and Jews in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, I would call them saints. But these pastors, especially the heads of the megachurches and the televangicals, are all multimillionaires! Jesus' words come to mind: 'They devour widows houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers.' Furthermore, Pastor Huckabee is also a politician who wants to be president. An even bigger no no. This does not reflect well on Evangelicals to my mind. I am voting for Ron Paul for president. He is not a huckster. He is a man of integrity and truth. Evangelicals take note: Dr Paul is pro-life, has been married to his wife for 50 years, and his older brother is a Lutheran minister.

Obviously this Poll is skewed, taken to try to influence the voters. So where is the stats on the accuracy of these Iowa Poll takers?

Of note – the dike (thunder thighs), appearing on the Morning Dork Show, where she has a cot, tells Meeka Alphabet (alphabet's daughter)…

that she planned to return those presents from Darfur that did not include money for slick's speeches and support.

Meeka giggled excitedly – saying she too would be returning presents (free pass to the Frisco Zoo).

Ho hum.

Another Democrat up. Another Democrat down.

Who cares? One is the same as the other.

The Sky is Falling!! The Sky is Falling!!
The Sky is falling !!
Elect me,and I will Fix it!
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND HILLARY.
THE PARTY OF GLOOM AND DOOM.

i think we all know what to do with cnn's polls. do we expect anything different from clinton's news network?

Putanesque Bill. If he is returned to the white house and becomes a member of the inner circle, will he once again have interns on his executive staff?

Hillary will win Iowa and NH, probably will win NY and CA and maybe the rest. But she cannot win the big prize. To those who want her, thing big big taxes to pay for the National Health plan. Don't believe me, read her website. We talking Trillions. So when you go to the doctor in 2009+, expect to sit there awhile and listen to non-english being spoken. I know Bush isn't perfect, but at least he lowered my tax bill.

Did Obama run into a traffic light? or some other stop? Or did the Media over-play Obama. Some of the Clinton interviews were getting very nasty almost insolent. If Obama loses by such a big margin, that is a very bad sign for race relations in America.

YES! Bring it on! It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush! Let the republicans think she is an easy target. They will wake up the day after election day with the first woman president! She is no where near as liberal as the right lies about.

Whos kidding who? Fake manipulated polls are just one of the Clinton tricks.

Romney will win the gop nomination despite the liberal medias attempts to discredit him. He is the only serious gop contender that can beat someone like Billary. If its a Romney/Thompson ticket, republicans can win. If Huckabee wins the primary, Clinton is unfortunately likely to win.

I find it hard to believe the accuracy of this latest poll. Polls tend to jump all over the place at this point. However, if Hillary does get the nomination I think she will have a difficult time winning. I have visited with many of my Democrat friends who are opposed to her and will vote for the Republican nominee.

Anybody but Hillary.

No one finds it suprising the the Clinton News Network runs a poll that shows Hillary ahead when all others show the contrary?

I am pretty sure that the question was posed as "will you vote for Hillary or would you like James Carville to come to your home and explain why you should?" Many folded in light of the alternative.

American Research Group cannot be trusted.

They had Bush winning NH in 200, only to see McCain win by almost 20 points.

They also had Dole beating Buchanan in 96 by 7 points, only to see him lose.

Their methodolgy is shoddy to say the least.

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2007/12/problem-with-american-research-group.html

Say it isn't so.

Huckabee is going to keep slipping as more comes out about his "fair" tax that will force us to pay a 30% tax on everything including a new car or house.

Ron Paul is the only candidate who understands the economy and foreign policy. He WILL get the nomination, and he will beat whatever Democrat gets picked as the next champion for universal hand holding/spoon feeding for those too afraid to take care of themself.

We should pause and think before we jump off a cliff with a particular candidate. Hillary will need to get 80% undecideds to win in the general. Long odds unless all the other candidates self-destruct.

Can you Say… MANIPULATION of the polls..

We all know the Clintons lie… and have PAID to have the polls make Hillarious look good.

I don't belive it.

What about FRED?

He's the only true conservative in the mix.

Totally unflappable. And definitely a man of principle, not poll.

Who cares if he doesn't spend 22 hours-a-day begging, pleading and promising.

I wouldn't either.

HRC is at best a dull-normal intellect who doesn't know up from down. This country needs a dose of her socialism to sober it up. Go Hillary!

I DON'T TRUST anything this Communist News Network reports!

You will all be sorry if you elect another Clinton. Why are you satisfied with the status quo? The Clinton's and Bush's are on the same team. Ron Paul is the only man with the experience and ideas for change that you are starving for. ronpaul2008.com

The Obama supporters weren't home when the pollsters called.

They were out putting up lawn signs, knocking on doors, and making phone calls reminding their fellow Iowans that Obama is the only major candidate who opposed the Iraq war from the beginnning.

The Clinton supporters were at home watching CNN.

Andrew from Iowa,

I love your warped logic, always blaming reverse racism for your problems. Were you offended by what she said? You are probably in the same group that believe African-Americans and other minorities are overly sensitive when it comes to racial issues. Racism is only perceived as a problem when whites are offended.

Perhaps you live on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line. I thought Iowa was a pretty tolerant state.

I think the top three canidates are running neck and neck. However, I think what this poll does show is that Joe Biden is moving up and may be a big surprise in Iowa. Maybe third knocking out Edwards.

The following statement by Michelle Obama is quoted from an interview her husband, Senator Obama gave in Iowa this past weekend. Boy it’s really pretty up here in IOWA but she said, ‘But you know, I can see why if I was living out here, I’d want a gun. This comment by the Senator’s wife was not widely reported in any media sources. Makes you wonder, if this statement had been made, Harlem, by the wife of any Republican candidate, Sharpton would be branding her a racist.

Who has had the most well organized political campaign? Who has worked the hardest without stopping in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina showing equality for all states.
Who sticks with the issues and does not attack other candidates based on religious bigotry and prejudice.
Who has a proven record of success in healthcare, immigration and budget management.
Who has two advanced degrees from Harvard University.
If a candidate works hard and manages well, I wonder what he will do for you and me in the white house?

"wow if they actually admit ron paul has 10% just vote for him he def. has the lead" – Brandon, CT

I am amazed myself. Ron Paul at 10%! I would have never believed that he could be in double-digits. I suspect that support will drop away around primary day as his supporters reluctantly switch to their second-choice candidates in an effort to pick the winner. It would be fun if he actually could get the nomination. It would be 1964 all over again.

Polls are garbage anyways used by the different media sources to manipulate voters. Everyone should take time to just look at every candidate and decide who would be the best. Do not listen to what the media wants you to believe or hear, because they are paid by the same people who give the candidates money. The only change you will get in this nation is if you elect someone who isnt funded by all the same places (doesn't matter if it is a Democrat or a Republican).

Just read this people. ARG is about as trustworthy as a Survey USA/Vinod Gupta CNN poll:

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2007/12/problem-with-american-research-group.html

wow if they actually admit ron paul has 10% just vote for him he def. has the lead..

INTRIGUING UPDATES (maybe one of the reasons Huckabee is slipping):

There have been some documents obtained and floating on the web that show "Mike Huckabee receiving $378,000 in consulting fees during 2006, while he was still governor of Arkansas.
Most noteworthy, $35,000 came from Novo Nordisk, one of the world's largest embryonic stem cell researchers." It seems that when money is at stake Huckabee may be able to look past his supposedly fervent opposition to this procedure.

He also received speaking fees from churches while Governor.

It is certainly calls into question whether or not it is appropriate for a Governor to be taking a consulting fee from interest groups, as Huckabee did, when issues surrounding that interest group could come across his desk.

The consulting money was funneled through an organization called 12 Stops, Inc., a group created in 2004 to handle Huckabee's book deals. With all the attention Obama received for running a separate PAC and potentially funneling money from maxed out donors through that PAC, it calls into question whether Huckabee may have done the same.

Two things:

Anyone notice the title of this article has changed in the last 24 hours? It was "Iowa poll says Clinton breaking away from the pack," now it's "Obama, Huckabee slipping among Iowa men." Very interesting.

Also, someone mentioned Hillary has received every paper's endorsement. This simply isn't true. Even on the day Hillary got the Des Moines Register's endorsement, Barack Obama was endorsed by the Boston Globe. He's received many more endorsements since, as have Biden and, I believe, Edwards.

I have to take this poll number with tons of salt!!

Could be with Huckabee that people are finally getting some post-Christmas "buyers remorse"

Peggy hit the nail on the head.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110011019

GO Hilllary!!Ai

THE OBAMA PEOPLE WOULD RATHER VOTE REPUBLICAN THAN HILLARY THATS HOW BAD OF SORE LOSERS THEY ARE WHY DOES MR. OBAMA CALL HIMSELF A DEMOCRAT AND NEVER TAKE A STAND. ITS TIME FOR HIM TO LAY OUT A PLAN AND QUIT TALKING AND START BEING A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC IN HIS CHANGE CAMPAIGN.

IF OBAMA WERE WHITE WOULD HE BE A BIG DEAL ARE ANOTHER JOHN KERRY

Probably because he's surging in the polls now, there are some vicious carpet-bombing emails circulating currently about Obama (my husband Rob received one from an ex-co-worker just tonight).

The emails center on the hateful, patently ridiculous allegation that Barack is a "radical, ideological Muslim" who is out to destroy the country, and who certainly has no business pursuing the presidency. That Hillary or her operatives would even whisper such a thing makes me ashamed to call her an American citizen, much less a political candidate.

Snopes.com has been debunking urban legends for years and years, both on the 'net and off. Please go to this link to read about this vicious lie about Obama:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

Oh i went to that site hillaryis44.com,there pros,and they discect obama,the truth is all there IM impressed,i will read,they are very professional.I cant wait until she is in the white house.we cant be living like this any more.She will give Our Country to us.

that obaman geez louise i cant understand him…live on hope huh!!!i can see it now preaching to us.oh my gosh he should be a republican,were not that stupid in believing this obaman guy….there better get serious in iowa …i want the economy back and no debt my choice is Hillary first all the way. voting democrat for 40 years now.Its true all republicans do is get us in debt so bad…we gotta bail them out.time after time…

Hillary heck yes!!!!!!08..someone with sense.and to do something about it…can you see hillary telling us we have to have Hope to live on…she be at home right now,forget about running for President.i dont give crap about what shes done in her personla life or anything Freaking the woman is smart.She really does care.better than whats in there right now.

Hillary all the way!

Is Karl Rove really giving Barack advice? I'm not surprised- they know they can beat him in the general election.But they're scared to death of Hillary Clinton. She is the best hope for the democrats recapturing the
White House.

In response to the HRP post. Hillary…the american people WILL fall for it..They like superficial because it's more fun for them! Personally I am sick of all of you!

These remarks are not meant to be racist nor sexist, but it appears the male Democratic voters in Iowa are wakingup to something we Democrats here in SC all along. John Edwards is the ONLY Democratic candidate that can bea the GOP in Novmebr of 2008. Obama or Hillary would be a moral victory just like putting a women on th eticket sin 1984 was, with the same general election results! Please tink before you vote, I can thin of nothing anymore racist or sexist than electing another Repuke to the White House for 4 more years and that is exactly what you will be doing if you vote for Obama or Hillary in the caucuses and primaries! The truth may hurt, but please hear what we are saying in the South where we need to pick up electoral votes and senate seats! Merry Christmas from Dixie, Mike Evatt/ Seneca SC

Good. Hillary will win, now people can just stop arguing about it.
Get over it people, she's our nominee.
Obama has about as much a shot as Dick Cheney at becoming our next president.

Hillary is a dunce. Bill was elected promising universal health care. The Congress was democratic. The public was behind it. The economy could support it. Yet her program was 100% failure. She had another 6 years to try to revive it. Nothing happened. Can anybody actually be that incompetent? Now there's an election, she wants to be entrusted with healthcare again – with an unworkable plan to force down people's throats – a windfall to the insurance lobbies that fund her. She flunked healthcare. She flunked Iraq. She flunked Iran. She even flunked the Washington bar exam, and is a serial failure as a housewife. But wants to be your president.

Posted By julianbook : December 25, 2007 1:48 am

Its post like yours that are the backbone of you Rush Limbaugh spewing Republicans. Just make statements that are totally false and act like its factual. So what happened? She had the money, the Democratic congress/senate and the public was behind it according to you. So if we believe your statement Hillary just dropped the ball and it had something to do with the Health plan being a failure. Well let me refresh your memory because I realize you Republicans have this selective amnesia. Do you remember the ads that the Republicans ran during that period? Not ads sttacking the Health plan because it wasn't a good plan…no instead they had a mother and child with the mother going on about how she wouldn't be able to take her child to her family doctor and she wouldn't be able to choose her own doctor or the older couple who they portraed saying they had a specific ailment and they wouldn't be able to go to their doctor of their choice under this health plan. Now if this sounds like HMOs to anyone thats exactly what the health plan proposed, but in the early 90s they weren't as prevalent as they are today and Republicans played on peoples fears as they are so good at and managed to get the public turned against the Health plan. Thats what happened sir.

Kucinich is going to surprise ALOT of folks this time around.

I can afford to vote 'my heart' in the primaries, thus I will choose Kucinich.

But when the General Election comes 'round, I will vote for whomever the Democratic party chooses.

We have GOT to get those repubes OUT of the government, by any means necessary.

We have GOT to keep electing Democrats to the White House, until we take back the Supreme Court.

That's the ONLY way we can keep America on a true Liberal tract. Conservatives are the worst thing to happen to American politics, second only to religion.

Vote OUT the religious and the conservatives, and we will finally have a wonderful country to live in, and then can lead the World to a true Liberal-minded existence.

Then, and only then, will the UFO's take us seriously enough, to teach us what we need to know to be citizens of this great Galaxy.

Kucinich for the Nominee
A Democrat for the Presidency
A Liberal planet Earth
A place among the STARS !!!

Go Hillary.

Changing the title of the Ticker entry from "New poll has Hillary surging" to "Poll: Obama, Huckabee slipping among Iowa men" will not change the facts or your bad reporting Rebecca.

Cow dung or Cow chips …. it's all manure

Edwards will sneak past and get the Dem nod. We no longer have use for the "cookie cutter" presidencies we have so grown used to. Let's elect a candidate who is able to think outside the box.

EDWARDS '08

It Were The American Research Group Mr Phi Of Sac,Ca,And He's Not Only Falling To Men But Woman Aswell,It Were On The Internet Last Night That's Where I Saw It And Besides Senator Clinton Is By Far The Best Candidate For POTUS.I See It's Alright For My Obama To Go Up 10 Points But If It's Senator Clinton It Must Be Poll Setting,Get Real You Shouldn't Have Believe Anything That Comes Out Of Iowa Anyway,I'am A Hilliary Fan And I Don't Trust Iowans Poll,It Seems Like They Don't Know S–T About Caucusing,And They've Had The Oppurtunity To Long To Play Their Games,It Time To Make Another State The Early Primary State,And That Goes For NH,& SC,They All Are Voting For Oprah Winfrey,That's A Disgrace,She Needs To Go Back To What Her Big A– Knows Best,Which Is Nothing.

Please, please, please . . . let the Busheep understand that whomever the Democratic nominee turns out to be, the voters will turn out in droves to rid this country of arrogant, lying, fraudulent, immoral republicans. We've had enough of their form of fascism for at least a century or so.

Posted By Jay R., Santa Fe, NM : December 24, 2007 10:49 pm

Amen!! Merry Christmas!

I wanna know if the pantywaist can even tie his own shoelaces w/out Michelle's help or does this mean we'll be seeing the Oprah Traveling Tent Show again soon.

Alas is the honeymoon over w/America?

"Former Atlanta Mayor and Ambassador Andrew Young (who was involved w/Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Right's Movement in the South) explained why he does not support Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination for president – until "2016."

If you want a Democratic president in 2008, Hillary is not the choice candidate. She has too much baggage (vote for Iraq, vote for Kyl-Leib, flipflopping on Immigration, mandated healthcare) that the Republicans are drooling at and can't wait to get their hands on. Hillary is on her latest tour, the "likeability tour". That's very sad that she needs to come out with a last minute effort to get people to "like" her. I think her smear attacks on Senator Obama have hurt her dearly.

Posted By Donna : December 24, 2007 10:33 pm

Donna, you contradict yourself easily. Vote for Iraq and Ky-Lieberman? They are in line with what Republicans want – being strong and aggressive on National Security. Republicans say Democrats are weak and cant protect the nation. They cant say that against Hillary.

So think before you jump on the misguided blind statement that Republicans are drooling for Hillary. Republicans have nothing against Hillary which is not already out in press. And till now they havent been able to pin her down with all their lies. So rest assured that we are safe with Hillary and remove hatred from your heart.

WITH THE WAR, AS UNPOPULAR AS IT IS, I
CAN'T BELIEVE ANYONE WOULD VOTE FOR A
CANDIDATE WHO VOTED FOR THE WAR.
OBAMA WOULD NOT HAVE VOTED FOR THE WAR.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD STILL BE
ALIVE IF HE HAD BEEN PRESIDENT INSTEAD
OF BUSH.
THAT GOES FOR RON PAUL, TOO… HE'S
MY CANDIDATE. END THE WAR. CLOSE THE
BORDERS. SHRINK THE SIZE OF GOV'T AND
LET YOU BRING HOME YOUR WHOLE PAY CK.

Agrees with Charles…why would any democrat nominate someone who the republicans want to run against and a democrat like myself will not vote for..will vote all other democratic but will not push the button for Hillary…I want to be able to say I never voted for her….She is has a deceptive manner about her….never really answering questiions…reminds me of Bush!

Posted By D Ramsey : December 24, 2007 9:08 pm

Why are you so scared like Charles? Where was your brain when you voted for Bush twice? If it was in the dumpster, then why bring it out now:-).

Republicans are so scared about Hillary that they dont even mind sounding like stupid blind followers.

PEOPLE DO NEED TO ASK THESELVES IF OBAMA WERE WHITE WOULD OPRAH BACK HIM OR WOULD THE PRESS MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE JOHN KERRY HE SPEAKS TOO MUCH IN GENERAL NOT ON SPECIFICS

HERB IN N.H. IS A GOLDWATER REPUBLICAN.
GOLDWATER WAS A REPUBLICAN LIBERTARIAN.
WHY AREN'T YOU VOTING FOR RON PAUL HERB

"There's only one reason I'd vote for a Republican- if Hillary was the Democratic nominee. I'd take any of the Republican candidates over her.

Posted By Joel, Charlottesville PA : December 25, 2007 10:22 am "

Than you are not a true Dem, perid.

There are 2 reasons convinced me to vote for Hillary.

1. Republicans are running Obama's campaign. Carl Rove secretly sending tips. And Chris Matthrew and his gang trying so hard to hit Hillary and they admitted that she is too tough to beat. Morning Joe publically admitted that there is only one candidate Republicans are worried about, and scared about – Hillary Clinton. This is such a sound reason caught on tape from Republican side, it says all. To take White House back, we must elect the total packadge, one and only, Hillary Clinton, weather you like her or not. Or loose the race to Reps.
2. I was all for Obama until the big number 130 "present" voting records exposed. I do not like some of the issies he voted, I do not like the fact that Obama can not show us "Y" or "N" to show his position. That hurts. I must follow my guts feeling and go for the strongest leader.

I DON'T TRUST THESE POLLS. I'VE SEEN
THE RESULTS OF THE STRAW POLLS AND
SOMETHING SMELLS FUNNY… NO WAY I
CAN TRUST THE VOTES IN OUR ELECTION
EITHER… FOLLOW THE MONEY AND YOU'LL
FIND CORRUPTION.

hilary clinton is a flip flopper and and a power hungry crazy person. she needs to get out of any sort of public office immediately. go home hilary

I read the poll results.

Then I read the blog. I must admit, after all these years; that I still don't get it. Just what, exactly, has Senator Clinton done in her lifetime to or against the American people to cause such visceral hatred on the part of some people?

The short answer is nothing. Apparently these folks have had some file removed from their programming and as a result their brains just aren't working to their full potential.

Come on people! After all the lies that have been exposed during this Republican Nazi Administration you still believe Karl Rove and his brothers?

For some folks there is no hope of recovery, I will pray for you.

This is too amusing for words. All this talk of Hillary Clinton galvaninsing the Republican/Conservative parties??? I think some of you had better take a trip around this country as I have. America isnt no more closer to electing Clinton than they are Obama. White America wont have an intelligent, capable, descent African-American running things. You all need to stop the b.s. Furthermore, I have taken a great look at the Republican/Conservative hypocrisy and whatever any democrat couldve done, is by no means worse. Will the American hypocrisy wheel ever stop????

Iowana are finally starting to realize the bottom line: Dems must win and 2008 and Hillary-love her or hate her-is the ONLY CANIDATE that will eat the repubs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We Must win. Bottom line.

Huckabee like Obama has started running on JUDGMENT. They are both EMPTY heads with a lot of words relating to UNITY, HEART, INSPIRATION, CHANGE, CHANGE, "CHANGE you can believe in" while Hillary has a record of voting she RUNS on.

Obama can be absent on the crucial 'IRAN vote', say he is sorry for missing it in the debate, but come back to attack Hillary for taking a stand.
While he as a State Senator he used to be "PRESENT not VOTING" in sessions with important bills because he knows he does NOT have the GUTS to defend his so called "judgment". So does not make the so called "judgment" at all.

Folks Hillary is your candidate because she has the record of taking stands and defending them!! Obama will keep seeking advice from ex-Bill Clinton advisers that he has hired for this election.

Go Hillary44 08! http://hillaryis44.org/

Obama: The most electable candidateShare
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Frank Rich recently wrote in the New York Times:
Were Mr. Obama to best Mrs. Clinton for the Democratic nomination, he may prove harder for the Republicans to rally against and defeat than the all-powerful, battle-tested Clinton machine.

Polling data indicates Obama is indeed the strongest general election candidate — and in case you missed them, this week two new polls bolster this evidence.

Yesterday, a Zogby poll showed Obama is the only Democratic candidate who beats all of the major Republican candidates, while Clinton loses to Giuliani, Huckabee and McCain.

Obama leads Romney 53%-35% (Dem. +18)
Clinton leads Romney 46%-44% (Dem. +2)

Obama leads Huckabee 47%-42% (Dem. +5)
Huckabee leads Clinton 48%-43% (Rep. +5)

Obama leads Giuliani 48%-39% (Dem. +9)
Giuliani leads Clinton 46%-42% (Rep. +6)
Obama leads McCain 47%-43% (Dem. +4)
McCain leads Clinton 49%-42% (Rep. +7)

Obama leads Thompson 52%-36% (Dem. +16)
Clinton leads Thompson 48%-42% (Dem. +6)

And earlier in the week, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Obama beating Republican candidates Giuliani and Huckabee by a much greater margin than Hillary Clinton.

Obama 49% Giuliani 40% (+9) Clinton 46% Giuliani 43% (+3) Obama 48% Huckabee 36% (+12)
Clinton 46% Huckabee 44% (+2)

Obama is resonating with people all over the country, even in the so-called "red states." We have offices and thriving grassroots organizations in places like Utah and Alabama (where we have three offices). People all across the country are responding to Obama's call for a new politics. If you want a Democrat who can unite the country and win, Barack Obama is your man. Let's help make him our candidate by reaching our goal of 500,000 donors. Make a match and make history.

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2007/12/20/a-gop-free-for-all/

Anyone can see the stark contrast in the two parties. The Democratic nomination is nationally wrapped up if you just ignore the EARLY states which is pre-2007 wisdom!!! SUPER DUPER TUESDAY will decide the nominee.

The Republicans are still looking. After the 2006 midterm election, I think Hillary couldn’t choose a more perfect year to run for president. The whole country is now leaning toward Democrats. People are just so unhappy and fed up with the Republican Party which has controlled the country for almost 8 years now. Any Democrats (yes even Hillary) has better chance to win 2008 presidency than any republican.

I don’t see all these unhappy Americans who clearly want a change in direction in 2006 would vote for another republican again over Hillary.

In 2006, we all saw a lot of good republicans lost their seats to some never-heard-before Democrats because of this effect.

Go Hillary44 08! http://hillaryis44.org/

12/24/2007
State Senator Jack Hatch Endorses Hillary Clinton
As Momentum Grows in Iowa, Senator Hatch becomes the 21st Iowa Legislator to Endorse Hillary
DES MOINES, IA – As the Clinton campaign’s momentum continues to build in Iowa, State Senator Jack Hatch of central Des Moines, Senate District 33, endorsed Hillary today, citing the superiority of her health care plan. Senator Hatch is the 21st Iowa legislator to endorse Hillary. The endorsement comes on the heels of endorsements from prominent newspapers, including the Des Moines Register, Quad City Times and Burlington Hawk Eye, as well as Secretary of State Michael Mauro, over 100 Iowa women elected officials, and Iowa labor leaders.

“This is a historic election that will have an enormous impact on the direction of our country,” Senator Jack Hatch said. “Hillary Clinton is an agent of change who will enact universal health care and open up great opportunities for women, like my 18-year-old daughter, by making the dream of being president one day a real possibility. I trust Hillary to change our country because she has the strength and experience to enact real solutions to our big challenges. ”

Senator Hatch is serving his second term in the Iowa Senate after winning reelection in November 2006. Before that, Hatch served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. Senator Hatch is a committed advocate for affordable, quality health care for vulnerable Iowans. Senator Hatch is the co-chair of the legislature’s Commission on Affordable Health Care for Small Businesses and Families.

“I greatly admire Senator Jack Hatch’s commitment to providing affordable, quality health care for Iowans,” Senator Hillary Clinton said. “This election is about delivering change and I am honored to have the support of someone who is so deeply dedicated to improving the lives of Iowans.”

It's funny when an Obama supporter says s/he would vote for a Republican before s/he would vote for Hillary. I would like to think just the opposite on that, but then I remember that the nicest Republican candidate who is most like the Democrats would still make it possible for the Republicans to stop all of the good efforts our Democratic Congress is trying to make. Democrats who vote for a Republican over one of our candidates are shooting themselves in the foot. Don't be stupid!

12/24/2007
State Senator Jack Hatch Endorses Hillary Clinton
As Momentum Grows in Iowa, Senator Hatch becomes the 21st Iowa Legislator to Endorse Hillary
DES MOINES, IA – As the Clinton campaign’s momentum continues to build in Iowa, State Senator Jack Hatch of central Des Moines, Senate District 33, endorsed Hillary today, citing the superiority of her health care plan. Senator Hatch is the 21st Iowa legislator to endorse Hillary. The endorsement comes on the heels of endorsements from prominent newspapers, including the Des Moines Register, Quad City Times and Burlington Hawk Eye, as well as Secretary of State Michael Mauro, over 100 Iowa women elected officials, and Iowa labor leaders.

“This is a historic election that will have an enormous impact on the direction of our country,” Senator Jack Hatch said. “Hillary Clinton is an agent of change who will enact universal health care and open up great opportunities for women, like my 18-year-old daughter, by making the dream of being president one day a real possibility. I trust Hillary to change our country because she has the strength and experience to enact real solutions to our big challenges. ”

Senator Hatch is serving his second term in the Iowa Senate after winning reelection in November 2006. Before that, Hatch served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. Senator Hatch is a committed advocate for affordable, quality health care for vulnerable Iowans. Senator Hatch is the co-chair of the legislature’s Commission on Affordable Health Care for Small Businesses and Families.

“I greatly admire Senator Jack Hatch’s commitment to providing affordable, quality health care for Iowans,” Senator Hillary Clinton said. “This election is about delivering change and I am honored to have the support of someone who is so deeply dedicated to improving the lives of Iowans.”

Bill Schneider says Hillary's lead in the early states looks "shaky". How is her lead more shaky than those running 2nd and 3rd? I would prefer her shaky lead to their shaky trailing.

Go Hillary!!! Here's a great Christmas gift!! Nice job Iowa!!

I don't understand with this. When Obama is up on poll, its great, when Hillary is up its fake. I'm not a huge Hillary fan but comments like this make me vote more for her.

Glad to hear the Iowan men are waking up before it's too late!!! Hillary Clinton is the ONLY candidate who can get this country back on the right track!! She is a change agent and yet she has the experience, intelligence and qualifications to be president on DAY 1!!!

PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON – 2008!!!

OBAMA – STAY IN CHICAGO WITH OPRAH!!!
EDWARDS – GO TAKE CARE OF YOUR WIFE!!!

AMERICA; ELECT HILLARY CLINTON OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!!

Why is it that when the polls favor Obama or Edwards then everything is on the up and up but when it favors Ms. Clinton, you all start thinking it's a corrupt
process?

This is just plain silly!

Ah … yes !The polls have pleased people during this christmas time!

Our nation will need leader who holds strong leadship skills, wise, a qulaified and no traning needed president 2009, senator Hillary Clinton is the best so far ! She will take the strong lead for the nation.

What Would Huck Do?
1.) Pardon convicted felons in Federal prisons (if they find Jesus).
2.) Subsidize illegal immigration education at American colleges… for our Mexican brethren. (Jesus loves them too!)
3.) De-militarize our Armed Forces and give them all 'Crosses' with which to fend off our Nation's enemies. (Perhaps the US Navy will get an ark or two. ???)
4.) Embrace the United Nations (so we can all get along).
5.) Capitulate to the Democratic Congress, so as not to make Nancy Pelosi cry… with the expectation that she will do unto him, the same. _R_i_g_h_t_.
6.) Bulldoze San Fransisco (in God's name). Those immoral heathens.

A preacher – Yes. A President – God, no!

Hubert Humphrey is Walter Mondale is Michael Dukakis is John Kerry is Hillary Clinton.Why does the Democratic Party eschew its future in Obama and parade forward with its past? It is a history of lemming-like party selections. Why go back when one can go forward? The previous Clinton adninistration was fraught with breeches of the public trust and confidence.The current Clinton campaign has used tactics which are quite Bush-like in their substitution of falsehood for truth. Change? The change this nation needs is from the misappropriation of progress by both parties. Barack Obama represents this change.

Polls are worthless and I don't know why they are even in the so called process except for propaganda hectoring !

Paul, as a native of Rochester, MN, quit making that city look like idiots. The only way the Republicans can win in 2008 is if something divisive brings the Republicans together. That something is Hillary Clinton and they know that.

Obama/Edwards '08

Go Hillary go!!! By the way, right wing nut jobs, don't think for one minute that democrats will withhold their vote if Hillary is the nominee. We will support ANY democrat to get us out of this mess that the republicans have gotten us into, even if it's not our first choice.
Posted By Mark R. Fort Lauderdale FL : December 24, 2007 9:08 pm

That's a lie. I am an African American woman who is very disgusted with the Clinton Campaign using blatant racism to defeat Barack Obama . If she is on that ticket, I am voting for Mike Huckabee and so are MANY other Africans Americans who are sick of the Democratic Party and using the "Southern Strategy" and then apologizing for it later. That's it. We are DONE!

You better believe it.

If Republicans are so eager to see Clinton as the Democratic Nominee, why is Obama receiving tips from none other than Karl Rove? Hm…
Posted By Paul, Rochester, MN : December 25, 2007 10:47 am

Mayhap because they're trying to tie him to the Republican party to draw Democratic support away from him? Really, there are so many ways to spin a move like that, both for or against Obama, that it's almost impossible to guess his true motive. Unfortunately, that's why some would call Rove a genius of politics.

Call it an early Christmas gift for Hillary Clinton’s campaign ?

No. I call it an outright LIE! I have been in polling for four years and I KNOW what's really going on. I am not worried a single bit.

My money is on Edwards.Obama is just something the press likes to write about and the Republicans hope will win, because this is the only candidate they can beat.
In order to win the presidency the Dems need red states.Obama can not win in these states.

That poll makes sense considering:

- Hillary has received ALL newspapers' endorsements. That is critical in getting the votes from undecided voters

- Obama, may be due to his inexperienced, relaxed in his Iowa compaigning and spent time in new hampshire and elsewhere, while Hillary started his 99 counties tour in Iowa. The Iowa voters wanted attention and concerns from a candidate.

- I predict that Obama's final votes will be worse on the voting date, because many of his predominantly young voters may not other to show up (too much time, dude).

If you look at the pollster.com website, you'll notice that the ARG polls are completely out of sync with all other presidential polls.

I would trust this poll at all, my friends.

Why is obama down? they found out that karl rove is running his campaign.

This is why I can no longer stomach your programming.

It's a BAD poll when Hillary is leading and a GOOD poll when she is behind.

HILLARY!!!!

If the Republicans win the presidency again in 2008, then I can say something is wrong with the American brains that needs a major brain surgery…..any democrat candidates should be an easy winner against any Republican. Republicans mean incompetence, arrogance, narrow-mindedness and prejudice.

If Republicans are so eager to see Clinton as the Democratic Nominee, why is Obama receiving tips from none other than Karl Rove? Hm…

Iowa, you are wonderfull. Please let elect Mrs Clinton to shut down all the right wing. She is the only one in demo side that can win this election. She is going all the way to get a strong mandate. I was leaning Obama but I think if Carl Rove ,Limbaugh etc..are ruling against her it's because they know that HRC will kick their butt. So I am casting my vote for Mrs. Clinton on January the 3rd 08.

the people in the polls have to show up 1st, most of hillarys support is from 1st time caucaus voters who rarely show up, much less if there is a blizzard, plus if her support is less than 15% at each caucaus center in Iowa then it's state law says it is mandatory that they swing there support to another candidate or decline to vote. GO EDWARDS! "the electible candidate in the south."

I can't believe Obama supporters can not even take the fact of the polls. I never hear Clinton supporters react this way. Poll is poll. Chnage subjects, focusing on the issues more important for America. Waist time !

There's only one reason I'd vote for a Republican- if Hillary was the Democratic nominee. I'd take any of the Republican candidates over her.

someone should tell about the recent Iowa Poll showing Hillary with a 15% lead. Because he just reported on CNN that all early state polls show a close race. This is misleading and neglirent that your lead political pundit is so anti-Hillary. I'm sure if Obama were leading jn Iowa by such a margin , he would have reported it. He owes an explanation to CNN Viewers today.

I wonder if the fact that this poll was conducted while the college students (and perhaps many academics) are away for xmas has anything to do with the results.

as far as the comment "Hillary is ready to lead from Day One"…I can only ask "where will she be leading us? to war with Iran?"

You obviously didn't do very well in math did you JD. The point EE is making is that if you reduce the pool of Democratic voters by 40% you than have no realistic chance of reaching the 51% you are refering to. When you add to that the point that EE left unsaid, but is a obvious part of his/her analysis, that an even wider margin od independents will wage and open revolt against her candidacy and that the repulicans will be more united than they have been in years then you have the making exactly what EE is stating.

But all thst notwithstanding this poll is a farce and Rebecca if you intend to do this job for some period of time my suggestion would be to first LEARN the JOB. Ask simple questions of yourself for example does what I have here make sense??? Then do some "research" before putting something like this out there and embarassing yourself and you employer with such shoddy work.

But wait it's not all your fault Rebecca, your editor hasn't learned the job yet either.

http://www.obamatruth.org and the video download site of http://www.youtube.com.

After viewing the video, some will think OBAMA is an acronym for Overly Bothersome Aggressive Money Appetite. The video includes information on

" How the Senator’s wife received an unusual and extremely generous salary increase from a hospital that seeks to protect its not-for-profit status, shortly after her husband was sworn in as a U.S. Senator.

" How the abuses of the not-for-profit hospital where Michelle Obama works directly contradict the Senator’s oft stated promise of making health care more affordable.

" How by working with a political fixer who at the time was the public target of a U.S. Justice Department investigation (the political fixer was later indicted), Senator Obama was able to save money when buying his new mansion.

" How Senator Obama, who had addressed a union group that is outspoken in their opposition to Wal-Mart (especially the compensation of the CEO of Wal-Mart), failed to tell the group about the compensation of the CEO of the company where his wife sits as a member of the Board of Directors-an amount more than double the compensation for the Wal-Mart executive, for a company whose revenues are 400 times less.

" How the company his wife sits on the board of directors closed a plant staffed mainly by low-paid Hispanics in Colorado.

The bias media won’t tell you so visit the website http://www.obamatruth.org where more information on these and other issues concerning Obama’s lust for wealth can be found, including interviews with people affected by the plant closing in Colorado.

What kind of logic from a statistician?
Posted By jd, des moines, iowa : December 25, 2007 7:52 am

DJ , sorry u got it wrong.A party candidate is supposed to have near 100% of his party vote at the general elections.He/she then tries to get votes from the other party to make up the majority.

Take this scenario: there are 1000 democratic voters and 1000 republican voters , Hilary loses 40% of democrats in the general elections implying she gets 600 democrats and 400 votes against her or sit home. This means either the Repblican nominee wins by 1400 to 600 (or 1000 to 600 if the 40% stay home).

Mind you ,independents hate Hilary to the core, so its a fact they will vote Republican if she gets the nomination. Hope u got the stats this time.

Breaking away from the pack? At least we're finally identifying Hillary as a wild animal and part of a feral pack. That's a big start!

Now let us start going through all the mysterious unsolved questions and potential felonies that plague this notorious pair of lying crooks.

You cant be the nominee when 40% of your own party is ready to vote against you. Its unheard of in US history.

As a statistician…
Posted By EE : December 25, 2007 6:55 am

What kind of logic from a statistician?
That means hillary has 60% vote support from her party, and the remaining 40% (against her) is shared by several other remaining candidates. A candidate would win the nomination with 51% votes, and generally win with much less days before the voting day because she/he may get additional votes when a few losing candidates drop out.

I also am supporting Biden. I really don't know about the accuracy of this poll, or really any of them for that matter, but I know my husband is supporting him and most of his co-workers (90% being males) are supporting him also. I really believe he is going to do surprisingly well here in Iowa.

You do the American public a great injustice by reporting biased information as fact.

I suspect that your next report will proclaim that Hillary has already been inaugurated.

You've lost credibility and my viewership.

I will be supporting Biden but i have watched Hillary tie the rightwing hate radio nuts in knots for 16 years. As she has said they have tried to destroy me for 16 years and i'm still here. I will proudly cast my vote for her if she is the nominee as will many men and republican women and the vast majority of the independents. Your only hope is Romney. Republican women have a tendency to vote for handsome. Just ask Bill. bwahahaha

Conclusion: The reactions show that Mrs Clinton will not be and should not be the Democratic nominee.

You cant be the nominee when 40% of your own party is ready to vote against you. Its unheard of in US history.

As a statistician I can tell you how polls can be wrong. First biased sampling, then wrong sampling, then wrong timing,then wrong questionaires,then push polls etc etc.This polls disagrees with all other five polls conducted at the same time. Please discard this polls

When one poll disagrees with all the others run at about the same time, a headine like "Iowa poll says Clinton breaking away from the pack" whether it's Clinton or anyone else, is misleading and poor journalism. Sample outliers are a basic fact of the process. Large outliers are more likely to suggest a substantial base of undecided voters than a major shift in voter intentions.

Nobody made a peep when Hillary went from 14 points ahead in NH to tied 3 days later. I didn't hear about how the poll was rigged.

Of course, if there's a Clinton surge, it cannot be true. Obama sailing to victory and uniting the country — that is obviously true.

The only question in my mind is whether this poll is horribly inaccurate because of poor methodology or error, or rather was it willfully wrong. It is completely out of line compared with other recent polls.
Iowa could go either way, but to think that Clinton is beating Obama by this much given all the other evidence is just plain gullibility. I am VERY disappointed that this piece is not at least raising the question of unreliability for this poll.

ARG has a horrible track record and has historically put out these horribly skewed results. Consider the following:

In New Hampshire on the 19th they put out a poll showing Hillary Clinton in the lead by 14% points over Obama. The very next day the University of New Hampshire showed Obama up by two in that state. Both Gallup and Rasmussen, releasing data on the 19th and 18th respectively produced results within the margin of error, with Gallup showing a tie and Rasmussen showing Hillary with a 3 point lead. That's 3 different polling agencies within the span of two days showing results much tighter than ARG's.

In South Carolina on November 29th (the last data I can find from them on that state) ARG put out a poll showing Clinton in the lead by 24% points. Princeton Research Associates on the 25th of that month revealed a lead of only 14%, whereas Rasmussen on December 5th showed Clinton with a lead of on 2%. Again, two different polling agencies were showing a tighter race than ARG.

So, onward to Iowa. In the past 10 days 6 different polling agencies have produced results far tighter than this ARG poll. A quick run-down; 12-13 Research 2000 shows a 9 point lead for Obama, 12-17 Insider Advantage shows a 1 point lead for Obama, TNS Intersearch shows a 4 point lead for Obama, and Rasmussen shows a 4 point lead for Clinton, 12-18 Strategic Vision shows a 3 point lead for Obama, 12-19, and here's the kicker, ARG's own tracking shows only a 4 point lead for Clinton. ARG's poll flies not only in the face of 5 other polling agencies, but also of their own data from four days prior.

ARG has skewed results in nearly every state they poll and produce inconsistant results. Sorry, but this is not a reliable polling agency.

sorry i misspoke, i just found it. it's called american research group. never heard of them. CNN is obviously desperately looking for positive news about Hellary.

I find it interesting that the polling organization is unnamed. I have been looking for it everywhere. I honestly think this is a ploy by the dirty Clintons in attempt to give Hillary the appearance that she is surging. which is a load of crap. everyone knows it.

I will vote for Hillary if need be just to see Anne Coulter and Bill Orallys heads explode in anger and spin spin spin off. LMAO

These results testify, primarily, to the difficulty of polling caucus-goers in Iowa- not to the dynamic of the race. It is foolish to conclude otherwise.

WHOSE POLL? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHO?
Don't believe it. Sounds like a Paid For Political Ad…….

Thank you IOWA!!! You just made the right choice…CLINTON is strong and will never fail us. Republicans hate her coz SHE IS DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Dennis Kucinich can't really win… can he?

Read more: KUCINICHCANTWIN.COM

I've had a hunch for weeks this was going to happen. This process reminded me of the race to choose the American Idol last season. You will remember the kid with the goofy hair remained in the running for weeks despite his having little discernible talent. But when the race came down to the last two-three weeks, the fans took their votes seriously and voted the guy out of the competition. This is what is happening to Obama. More and more voters are realizing what those of us who opposed him from the beginning thought: Obama is an empty suit.

Those of you who believe Hillary is too divisive to win in November, and the GOP will "tear her to shreds," need a history check. The GOP has been attacking Hillary since 1992. The Republicans have never prevailed against her. Never. There is absolutely nothing they can say about her that has not already been said. There is no hidden scandal to pick over. She has always fought toe to toe with the liars and bandits of the Republican party. Obama never has.

The Republicans fear Hillary because she is no wilting violet. Unlike Kerry, and Obama, she will never crumble under the Republican onslaught. Obama's campaign has been a blessing to the GOP. Obama supporters including those "journalists" and bloggers who are easily seduced by fuzzy speeches and utopian dreams. have been doing the Republicans' work for them. They have been trying to hamstring her campaign and denigrate her personally.

Obama, on the other hand, has no idea of what he will face if he is the nominee. Because he is not well known, the GOP would have a much freer hand defining him.

Count me for Bloomberg or staying home if she gets the nod. She is sure to lose in the general.

A Christmas gift to Hillary and her supporters, but in this day of peace and joy,

Merry Christmas to one and all!!!!

ARG is a fraud. They have no boiler room and don't actually make calls. Dick Bennett is basically a pay-for-play extortionist. If you slide him some money, he puffs up your numbers.

He also did "work" for Charlie Bass. Bass was the GOP congressman who got bounced out of office by Rep. Paul Hodes, Obama's national co-chair. Bennett has an axe to grind with the Obama camp, and he's cooking up bogus numbers as a way of getting even.

Hillary is a dunce. Bill was elected promising universal health care. The Congress was democratic. The public was behind it. The economy could support it. Yet her program was 100% failure. She had another 6 years to try to revive it. Nothing happened. Can anybody actually be that incompetent? Now there's an election, she wants to be entrusted with healthcare again – with an unworkable plan to force down people's throats – a windfall to the insurance lobbies that fund her. She flunked healthcare. She flunked Iraq. She flunked Iran. She even flunked the Washington bar exam, and is a serial failure as a housewife. But wants to be your president.

MERRY CHRISTMAS IOWA!!! Finally. You are chosing the BEST Candidate Ever!!!

Just a small list of Hillary's accomplishments in her early years in Arkansas:

Rodham co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund, in 1977.[30][66] In late 1977, President Jimmy Carter (for whom Rodham had done 1976 campaign coordination work in Indiana)[67] appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation,[68] and she served in that capacity from 1978 through the end of 1981.[69] For much of that time[70] she served as the chair of that board, the first woman to do so.[71] During her time as chair, funding for the Corporation was expanded from $90 million to $300 million,[64] and she successfully battled against President Ronald Reagan's initial attempts to reduce the funding and change the nature of the organization.[64]

Following the November 1978 election of her husband as Governor of Arkansas, Rodham became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979, her title for a total of twelve years (1979–1981, 1983–1992). Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year,[72] where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.
As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee from 1982 to 1992,[80] where she sought to bring about reform in the state's court-sanctioned public education system.[81][82] One of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship,[81] she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association[81] to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place.[81] She introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.[83] She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.

(above from Wikipedia). That doesn't even begin to cover what she's accomplished as First Lady and U.S. Senator.

Don't listen to the media, she will make a fantastic President. Let's send her to the General Election with an overwhelming WIN and MANDATE.

Okay here is the why Hillary would win the nomination.

HILLARY AND EDWARDS supporters are older groups, who by and large are people w/ families and are interested in a candidate on meaty issues. Things that effect their families and kids and they do not hang out on blogs!

OBAMA supporters by and large are young, single crowd that are moved by passion. The republicans fondly call them tree huggers. They are infested all over the blogs, yet when you look at the amount of pro Obama supporters on the blogs (like here), it in not indicative of the polls. Else we would have him show up at a 90% lead over others. You can"t dispute- The Obama supporters on blogs out number Hillary and Edwards, ask yourself then why is Obama not leading polls by the same margins

If this poll is indeed true, and Hillary wins Iowa and goes on to win the Democratic nomination, then I say congratulations to the Dems. It will be the third consecutive presidential election where you will have handed the Republicans the office. Way to go!!

If Republicans are so bent on running against Hillary, why are they spending so much money opposing her and only her??????

From WaPo:
"Two conservative groups also got into the act yesterday, announcing that they will be financing advertising campaigns in the week before the Jan. 3 caucuses.

Yesterday, a political action committee affiliated with Republican Alan Keyes declared its intention to spend $39,000 on phone banks and mailers opposing Clinton. And a PAC called RightMarch.com, which describes itself on its Web site as a conservative group that targets liberal Republicans and Democrats for defeat, reported yesterday that it will spend $16,465 on mail opposing Clinton."

Oh,and why is it that a lot of conservatives, such as Bill Kristol, have actually either endorsed, or been promoting Obama?

Here is a great article to answer the question of why Republicans love Obama:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/12/21/right_and_obama/

Hillary Clinton has high negatives simply because almost everyone knows everything about her, while the other candidates are much less known. At the same time she is way ahead of all of the other Democratic candidates in national polls. Voters tend to fill in the empty blanks about the less known candidates with positions favorable to their own. The public is just now starting to learn about the other candidates many scandals, flip-flops on positions, and unpopular positions. Hillary Clinton has the needed experience, maturity, and intelligence to be President. All of the other candidates, Democratic and Republican, are so unfit that they are jokes. While most of the other candidates try to appeal to the extremists on the right or the left Hillary is the best uniter because she appeals to the center. The Bush presidency is a great disaster and if elected Hillary Clinton will start bringing the USA out of the mess Bush and his associates made.

Isn't it fun watching Neocons with their prayerful pants in a bunch over Hillary!!!! Bush was all their doing and now their party will have to think about it in the corner as this might nation gives them a 4 year time out…
Go Hillary!!!!
Bill in CO. (soon to be a blue state!)

I dont buy this poll for a few reasons. It says that Obama has lost mostly male voters, and 90% of the Obama voters I know would go to Edwards if they didnt vote for Obama. Espeshially men. Most men I know dont like Hillary at all. The thing is that Edwards didnt go up much at all in this poll and thats why it looks too one sided. I find it very hard to believe that Obama undecideds would run to Hillary in such huge numbers. Second, There is no break down of what the age groups were so I imagine that it must have been a much older demo. Young voters are not going to Hillary at all. Third, this was a telephone poll, so they could disqualify many people for whatever reason if they didnt get the result they wanted…So while I would rather a poll say that Obama is 15 points ahead, I still would like to see a few polls say this before I take it as if Obama is really in trouble. Remember a few weeks ago, a NH poll had hillary up by 12, and then two new polls had it even and her down by 2. So we'll see what happens.

Ah…I see some people are mad. Oh well. While I won't put my hopes up too much until I see more polls, I know for a fact that Iowa is definitely trending towards Hillary. A lot of recent developments could attribute to this. Hillary has gotten the endorsements of all the most prominent and most circulated newspapers in Iowa. This alone could be a reason for the shift. Another thing is that Obama, mostly in the last few days, has chosen to play the "race victim" card. I think this might turn off a lot of voters. Anyways, all in all, I think Obama will come in third in Iowa. Either Edwards or Hillary will come in first. Which explains why Obama feels the need to suddenly start attacking Edwards. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

If anyone thinks that the Republicans want to run against Hillary, well, you don't know what you're talking about. The Republicans would MUCH rather go against Obama who has very little experience and a relatively weak and volatile base. Hillary, on the other hand, has not only been through the wars, but she has solid experience (which, no matter how hard you try, can not be refuted) and an incredibly solid base of voters. Granted, her negatives are high, but so is every other political figure that has high exposure (including the "likeable" John McCain). Case in point: since Obama has started to run, his negatives have been steadily climbing. By the time the general election roles around, if Obama were the nominee, his negatives would be along par with Hillary's, McCain's, and Guiliani's. No, I suspect the Republicans are most scared of Hillary — as they should be.

I can't find a Hillary supporter anywhere, yet I keep on hearing she's winning or, according to her, she's got it wrapped up. So far, she has failed to convince anyone that she is a principled person with conviction about any issue. She has failed to dispel the notion that she is a calculating and poll-driven politician. If she wins, America loses.

Maybe God has listened to our prayers. America needs a strong president. Its time for a woman to bring her view of how a country should be run.

Merry Christmas Hillary!

There will be many more polls and this one isn't particularly important. That said, wouldn't a proper summary point out that EDWARDS is in second, and focus less on Obama, given that he trails Edwards in this poll>

Remember in 04 Dean was ahead in the polls in Iowa by like 13 points and then for no reason at all he dropped 13 points to Kerry & Edwards a week before the caucus. Here we go again.

For no reason what so ever, Obama drops significantly in the poll and Clinton is way up after having the worst month in her entire campaign so far. What gives? Her new X-Mas ad that outstanding? This is all a bunch of crap, pure Rove-like bs. I don't trust Hillary or the corporate media much at all anymore.

If these primaries, polls & election were on the up and up, Obama and Ron Paul would be the respective nominees. No doubt, no question. Merry Christmas.

The HRC defeat will be specular!
The annnointed, appiointed and inevetable one will fail either in Iowa!
*If* she is elected in the primary (very doubtful) will find herself losing to anyone in the general election.

And all along I thought she couldn't unite the country. I now change my view, she can and will unite the country in defeating her.

ANYONE BUT HILLARY '08

What red-neck nut job in our country (50+ %) is gonna vote for a WOMAN or a former MUSLIM – BLACK person? We may pride ourselves on our "advanced" nature as a society, but we're not that far out of the Dark Ages.

if obama were white would he be a factor in this election

Please, you Republicans think your so slick. It's obvious that you want Obama to win b/c he will be an easier general election candidate to beat. Honestly, Hillary will be the most formidable b/c even Republican woman who openly say they won't vote for her will do so privately once the booth's curtain is closed b/c she is a woman. HILLARY, GO GIRL, we love you and want to see you clean up Bush's unfortunate mess.

careful what you wish for glazed-over Republicans and other Hilary haters.

There has never been a more 'divisive' presidential candidate in modern history than "President" George W. Bush (I use the term 'president' loosely) and HE got elected, sadly. I an assure you for every one of you folks who despise Hilary for whatever irrational, made-up, or ideological reason, there are dozens and dozens of us happy to vote for her, or for that matter, a trained goat, rather than see four or 8 more years of a Republican chief executive, particularly hypocrites and panderers like Romney, Giuliani, or heaven forbid, Huckabee. Hilary may not be all we could ever hope for as Progressives, but then no one with a realistic chance is, and furthermore, she opens the door wider, appeals to the center of the nation, and more importantly, is COMPETENT. but then, those george bush lovers out there (both of you) wouldn't know much about that. Careful what you wish for if you really think any of the 'strong' candidates from your silly 'unified' republican party can beat her … don't say we didn't warn you.

My god, obama might lose "that thing" afterall! Obama's dream is turning into a nightmare! Without Iowa, Obama is finished.

He was counting his eggs last week before they are hatched, and became lazy as usual, while hillary began her 99 counties tour of iowa. Her effort has paid off. And the endorsements of all Iowa newspapers also helped.

To Iowa’s voters:

Your are the reason why politicians flip-flops. Hillary this week, Obama next week. Hillary again, Obama again. You can’t seem to make-up your minds. The poor politicians have to keep changing their positions to gauge your mood.

Please, you Republicans think your so slick. It's obvious that you want Obama to win b/c he will be an easier general election candidate to beat. Honestly, Hillary will be the most formidable b/c even Republican woman who openly say they won't vote for her will do so privately once the booth's curtain is closed b/c she is a woman. HILLARY, GO GIRL, we love you and want to see clean up Bush's mess.

Yah Charles, sure, dream on buddy! : )

This will be all for naught, both Obama and Clinton admit that Edwards' people are the most organized. So we are already working on your Christmas gift for next year: A brand new Democratic president!

Merry Christmas!

ya right you people are shaking you know you say that cause your afraid of the clinton machine the bluedogs are the only ones who spank the republicans butt everytime so start crying now you big babies

Right wingers continually say they want Hillary as a nominee because it will galavanize their side. This is a scare tactic to keep her from getting the nominee because they are really afraid she will win.

She will win.

The Republican side is split among too many contenders. The Democratic side is making their choice now.

I imagine a lot of Republicans are getting tense this holiday season.

It would be great to see an Edwards/Clinton ticket… and i guess i'd be alright with a Clinton/Edwards ticket.

But thankfully that poser Obama… is finally being seen for what he is… a fake populist.

His universal health care plan isn't even universal, like the plans of Clinton and Edwards.

Obama doesn't represent change… he represents nothing. He's the status quo candidate.

Hillary will TROUNCE the GOP nominee next November!!

Hillary all the way!!

Any Republican will continue the Iraq disaster, while any Democrat would end it. No more soldiers should die for this needles war. So, Charles in Salt Lake, why do you hate American soldiers so much?

God help the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party, the party of the people, has taken to annointing Kings & Queens of the establishment classes. Make no mistake, Hillary as the Democratic nominee will result in many voters, including this one to send a message and vote for whomever is the Republican nominee. Yes, there are many registered Democrats who strongly that we do not want the Clintons back in the White House. Their Co-Presidency is itself an end run around the intent of the 22nd Amendment. We should be ashamed of ourselves as a people for even considering the Clinton duo back in the people's house.

Let us pray this proves inaccurate. If accurate, it could only reflect last week's underground attacks against Obama by the Clintons since he was leading as recently as last week. Since all the attacks were made up slurs, this would be a sad commentary on the prospect of whether voters are capable of distinguishing fact from fiction.

Hopefully this poll is wrong. The Clintons will never change.

This is good. Very good news. The Republicans could not stop her from becoming senator in a year that they won the Presidency. They could not stop her from re-election. They will not be able to stop her from being President. Contrary, she will attract republican voters like she did in 36 of 40 New York counties.
The country is in too much hole and trouble to gamble with a neophyte.
This poll is good news.

Charles…um, yeah, right – after eight years of what the GOP has done to this country and the sheer embarrassment it's caused us around the world, I'm sure any Republican candidate will have a chance in hell of winning no matter who the Democratic candidate is.

And since you love reverse psychology, pleeeease pleeeeeease make Rudy Giuliani the Republican candidate! Talk about someone as repugnant as that thug turning off voters on the Left and Right! Please win the nomination, Rudy! If you do, Democrats are virtually guaranteed the White House in '08!!

Who did this survey? Who did this opinion poll? What was the methodology? The results of a survey are meaningless unless we know the details of the methodology including how the questions were asked and who were the respondents.

Why has an outlying poll become a factual part of the story line? I just don't understand the partisian nature of polls, newspapers, and faceless 527s, they really work together to obscure the reality.

Iowa voters are proving they are scared of real change and have bought into Hillary's claim that she is so much more experienced than Obama, it is worth giving up real change.

The truth is that Hillary has no history of accomplishments. It is a sham! She blew it on health care. What has she actually done? Her staff helped a few constituents. That is not experience.

If Democrats want tested Washington experience, vote Joe Biden. If Democrats want an exciting leader with intelligence and and the judgment that would have kept us our the Iraq war, the ONLY choice is Barack Obama!

Sorry, Charley. You've had your eight years.

You better prepare yourself. You have some pretty awful candidates.

Isn't it interesting that they don't identify who conducted the poll?

Sounds like Mark Penn is up to his usual tricks. He really underestimates the intelligence of the American people.

Good riddance to Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson.

No Wonder it comes from CNN.

We see your game. We the people are going to speak. We are going to beat HRC and CNN>

Charles, pleas wish a merry Christmas to the other trolls like yourself in the tree trunk.

Right. We want Obama 20 or Edwards 19. Equals 39.
Let's combine. That beats Hillary's 34.

Be careful what you wish for Charles. None of the GOP guys look good in the general election.

This new survey showing Hillary "pulling away" and Obama falling back will send shock waves to the pundits that were writing Hillary off. I am convinced that the media pundits are like sheep. They follow the conventional wisdom, it safer that way. But do they know about the dynamics in play? I'm glad for Hillary, she's worked hard in Iowa and desrves the Iowans support. So does Senator Edwards.

Dear Charles,

I don’t know how you or anyone can speak for the "half of her party". I’m sorry you have nothing better to do on Christmas Eve but call someone you don't personally know as being "repulsively divisive".

There is such a thing as destiny. If Hillary Clinton is meant to become president, no one can stop her. We can all try our best to rally behind the candidate closest to our hearts, but in the end, the nation gets the leader they deserve. Let’s see what happens.

Merry Christmas and God Bless.

Why does no one reporting a poll ever acknowledge that there is a world of other polls out there. Any place doing rolling averages (real clear politics, pollster.com) all show obama with an advantage as of today and this new result is probably an outlier. Has Hillary really picked up 16% points in the last two days. Incredibly unlikely. I'm not saying Obama will win, but why not acknowledge the world of information out there that contextualizes this info.

It is upto to the IOWA Caucus Voters – Are not tired of 8 years of Clintons in the WH? Paaleez go for it!!! I am republican and I don't care if the Media and the Negative Publicity of Clintons, the loser Joseph Wilson or Kerry back up Hillary…. People can't give up …. there is a great awakenng in America and the only HOPE is OBAMA… who can repair the tainted image of ourselves around the world.
OBAMA '08

Charles:
You should be careful what you wish for. The average of polls in realclearpolitics.com has her beating anybody the Republicans put up against her. Of course, Obama and Edwards do the same or better.

hahahahaha

This poll is a joke. Anyone who believes that this poll reflects what is going to happen on caucus night is nuts. Obama goes down and ALL of his support goes to HILLARY? Think about it. Ain't no way. If Obama went down, his numbers would go to Edwards, not Clinton. This poll is BS.

And as far as Charles stated (above) regarding:"Even half her (Hillary) own party wouldn't vote for her on a bet!"….
Polls change everyday. She did a good job here in NN. Hillary will show you too that she is the right choice.

P.S. Edwards and Obama too would wipe the floor with any Republican in any debate.

Hillary Clinton will do great things for our country!!!!

This is very good news!

Hillary is going to be the next president. Thank God, she's the best person for the job.

I will try to find more of the poll details. So many of the polls have been published with or without the error of the mean, and those that have included that important statistic generally fail to indicate if that is for Republicans and Democrats combined, or for just one party or the other or each.

Equally important is the actual number of respondents in the sample and in each group.

I assume, but do not know, that the actual margin of error for Democrats was/is 7% or so, and that the margin of error for Republicans was 9% or so.

If my guesses are even close to correct, Clinton would indeed have a healthy, statistically significant lead.

I would also guess that Obama's fall in the poll is related to Oprah's intervention. Her effort to help Obama sent a signal to a lot of whites that Obama, if elected, would be a president for Black America. Of course that's absurd, but we have not gone far enough in the tolerance department for White Americans to be more open to diversity.

Very sad, but it's still our nightmare.

This is obviously an outcast poll. The ABC Washington Post poll from late last week – which is undoubtedly a more trustable source – has Obama leading with %3.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_121907.html

Stunning is the right word for this poll. There have been a zillion ones out lately and none of them show these kinds of results. If I am remembering correctly from math class, if we plotted the results of all the recent polls, this one would lie so outside the graph, we would discard it.

BUT, I suppose we can keep it and make Republicans believe we are seeing a Christmas miracle and their prayers have been answered!

I expect 'journalists' such as Chris Matthews,Howard Fineman who will spin this news and start their attack levels on Hillary while pretending to be reporting hard truths. Such people think their role is to pollute people's mind with their biases. So I hope people of early voting states will try to form their opinions based on own research and facts and stay away from hatered messages by 'journalists' or other bloggers who have ulterior motives.

Hillary will be a fine leader. Most of us New Yorkers have come to love and respect her. I believe that once she survives the process of getting elected, she will make an excellent president and is ready to make the changes to move this country in the right direction. She will win.

Thank goodness. Let's hope this keeps going like it is. We need Hillary. GO, GO, GO, Hillary!!!

If Hillary wins the nomination I will give up paying attention to current events and politics ( which I have done since a young girl) because it just would be too sad. I thought Nixon. Reagan or Bush would do me in but no it's the first woman candidate that gets in because she didn't pay attention to her husband's wandering genitals. She has such great experience like voting for the war. Iowa wake up!!!!

Please, please, please . . . let the Busheep understand that whomever the Democratic nominee turns out to be, the voters will turn out in droves to rid this country of arrogant, lying, fraudulent, immoral republicans. We've had enough of their form of fascism for at least a century or so.

YES! the women are galvanizing support for Hill. Hands across the nation!

I don't believe it! You can't make me belive it! NO WAY!! Clinton News Network is making this up!

OBAMA 08

Hillary will make minced meat of any of the potential Republican rivals.

The poll strongly shows one thing: people are getting serious and do their homework.

I am expecting Obama's poll number will be even lower. More and more voters now realized that Republicans are running Obama's campaign. They do everything they can to open arms and welcome Obama, and then, tear him in pieces, they don't have to say a word. In this way, THE FINAL IS A REPUBLICAN. Just like Chris Matthrew said to Joe, we hit her (Hillary ) so hard and she is still standing, still in the lead, so tough.
If you are truly a Dem, not Rep, check this out, when you listen, wait til the end. This is a such sounding confession caught in tape.

WAKE UP, AMERICA !

http://www.taylormarsh.com
Scoll down all the way to page "Why are Karl Rove and the Neocons Endorsing Barack Obama?"

You couldnt be more wrong Charles, and Im no Billary fan. Every Dem in this country will vote for her if she wins the nom, and Im an Obama supporter.

Impressive– Ron Paul up to 10% in Iowa? It looks like he seems to be gaining in poll numbers.

Hmmm… exactly who did this so called "survey" no names mentioned, maybe Clinton camp bought the story. Wonder how much to buy such post…

The only people who pay attention to ARG is Hillary Clinton herself. ARG has never in Iowa by less than 9%, nationally nearly always double the other polls. ARG has been discredited over the owner's political ties to the Clinton campaign. Oops! He is a main contributor. Could that be why every ARG poll is an 'outlier'?

If you want a Democratic president in 2008, Hillary is not the choice candidate. She has too much baggage (vote for Iraq, vote for Kyl-Leib, flipflopping on Immigration, mandated healthcare) that the Republicans are drooling at and can't wait to get their hands on. Hillary is on her latest tour, the "likeability tour". That's very sad that she needs to come out with a last minute effort to get people to "like" her. I think her smear attacks on Senator Obama have hurt her dearly.

I wonder how much Mark Penn paid this research group to fix this survey. Give me a break. This "survey" is so far off any other credible one that's out and being an Iowan, I guarantee that this so-called poll is not true.

I'm pretty sure this poll has been debunked already. Do your homework.

Why isn't this story being reported by all the major networks. As I've said before the media has a bias against Hillary Clinton. I believe that Clinto has not recieved a fair shake throughout this entire process. However, I still think she will prevail. GO HILLARY GO!!!!!

Glad to oblige you. And then you can eat her dust.

My Christmas prayer…
Please save us from another decade of hypocrisy and status qou. Hillary and Obama can't fix the problem because they're too much a part of it. We finally have an opportunity to elect a President who intends to truly represent the needs of ALL Americans–and has the passion and tenacity to follow through. John Edwards is in the right place at the right time for the Democratic party–and all Americans. My special prayer is that all Democrats take a second look at Mr. Edwards–and decide on his record and the facts.

Thank you, Clinton News Network.

I am uncommitted at this point and I would be fine with any of the top three, but my order of preferene would be: Hillary, Edwards, Obama.

Obama lost his momentum couple of weeks ago, and this clearly shows that voters are getting serious now.
Well, time is up for all those blogers in the OBAMA GEEKS SQUAD.Get ready to accept the Clinton-inevitability.

where is a link to the actual poll or a reference to who conducted it?

I don't think there is any chance of Hillary winning by 15 points, but she will probably emerge as the clear winner. Edwards and Obama will have to duke it out for second place. One wonders if Obama's recent attacks on Edwards (in the last two days) are part of that fight for second place.

this is called an outlier …

Best candidate the Republican's have this year. The problem with haveing only two parties is that both are catering to the lowest common denominator.

You don't really expect us to believe this…do you?

Go ahead "Charles in Salt Lake". Here is one Goldwater Republican who is ashamed of the Republican Party and will gladly vote for anyone other than a Republican including Mrs. Clinton.

Be careful what ya wish for, Charles. You need to check your statistics.
I'm for John Edwards. But, I just know you'd love to have to say, "President Hillary Clinton," for eight years!!!

First, the fact that there has been an over ten point differential in the space of a week makes me seriously doubt the methodology used or margin of error applied.

Second, the only frontrunners who came in first in Iowa in the last 40 years were former vice-presidents. As much as Hillary tries, she is neither Walter Mondale or Al Gore.

The fix is in…

Be careful what you wish for, rightard!!! Blackwell ain't Ohio's Sec'y of State this time. We will actually count THE VOTES. The counter vote you hope for is about 20%–Junior's supporters.

Who are you gonna run as your nominee? Rudi? Mitt? Mike? Fred? Sounds like a bunch of cartton characters.

Ummm…this has to be an outlier poll. No way this is for real.

Doesn't look to me like it's the people who's making Hill the nominee…

You are right Hillary is the worst candidate on the democratic side; however, she is still head and above better than anything the Republicans have to offer.

At least there would not be a crazed moron in the oval office anymore.

I still wonder why anyone in their right mind would still be a Republican, given the abject performance of the party for the past 7 years. Really…..to just root for Hilary because she's perceived as being more beatable is an enlightening look at your priorities for this country. Party over country.

If Hillary is divisive, why does she beat all Republicans in hypothetical matchups?

Go Hillary!

Ha ha it seems that the Obamara hype is finally coming to end. Finally people area paying attention to the candidates and issues and they are realizing that Edwards, Clinton and Biden are the serious ones in the Democratic party. No wonder Obama was attacking everybody, pure sign of desperation!
Obama is full of good slogans and nothing really concrete or that makes sense. Go Edwards, Go Clinton!
Merry Christmas!

I wouldn't put too much weight into this "poll". Most pols say Obama is in the lead. The fact is, you can pretty much disregard all of the polls until about Jan. 1.

Charles don't be a hater. Clinton is by far the best. You can say whatever you please – bottom line she is ready to lead on day one.

This Fake Poll will fool NO one. How can five other polls show Obama ahead or a threeway tie and this poll show Hillary magically ahead by 15?

Let us all be glad when this is over so our intelligence can stop being played with and insulted. It’s up to you Iowa to put this kind of thing to rest (TURN THE PAGE PLEASE!)

I Agree Charles! Hand the Repubs '08 by voting for Hill!

CHANGE!! Hillary will not win, watch this space. Obama will win by landslide. He is the only one who can unite America and heal us from our ugly past.

Go Hillary go!!! By the way, right wing nut jobs, don't think for one minute that democrats will withhold their vote if Hillary is the nominee. We will support ANY democrat to get us out of this mess that the republicans have gotten us into, even if it's not our first choice.

Agrees with Charles…why would any democrat nominate someone who the republicans want to run against and a democrat like myself will not vote for..will vote all other democratic but will not push the button for Hillary…I want to be able to say I never voted for her….She is has a deceptive manner about her….never really answering questiions…reminds me of Bush!

To those who continue to attempt to perpetuate the myth that Hillary Clinton is too divisive to be elected President, explain how George W Bush could have been re-elected if high negatives and the charge of being divisive are decisive factors. The American people are not stupid, they are not going to vote on superficial garbage. They want a better economy, an end to the war in Iraq, and a government they can trust to help adress their problems. They know Hillary Clinton is the candidate best prepared to do that.

what a bogus poll….. I think you guys started to skew the reality. CNN, please be the news agency that we can all trust. this is not the way to coronate Hillary. she needs to earn it. so far, she is 3rd or may be 4th, next to Biden.

Unfortunately, the "Obama is a Muslim Terrorist" gambit WORKED for Hillary Clinton. That's a shame for our country.

There is no limit as to how low Hillary will go to get power and to keep it.

2008 will be a very nasty year.

Enough polls, let's vote. CNN had HRC up by double digits in Iowa last week. The next day someone else relesaed a different poll that had Obama up by 2%.

why do polls seem to be going all over the place now

first obama is up by 10

then obama is barely ahead of john edwards

then hillary is up

then edwards is up

then obama is ahead in N.H

then hillary is ahead in N.H.

then hillary is ahead in S.C

Then obama is ahead in South Carolina

and these polls come out only days apart

so whats going on?
can someone explain?

Well we wont have to worry about Hillarys Support, Because she told them to show up on the 14th.

HAHAHAHAH
This lady is a Joke!!!!!!
This is how she will lead this country to the bottom of the food chain.

its sad because the republicans are just about foaming at the mouth at the possibility of a clinton victory… there is no other candidate whom they would rather have to tear to shreads and galvanice the neo-christian nutcases in the south to mobilize in an anti-clinton free-for-all.. Its astonishing that so many americans are so stupid not to see that she will be the most divisive candidate in all of time… but then again we did elect george bush twice… I guess its normal for democrates to be blindly stupid?

Just as Bill Clinton wiped his opponents off the map so will Hillary. The polls that you refer to are not etched in stone, and don't measure the the mood of the country for change. Charles your tarnished and tattered Republican party that has given this nation a river of red ink with its deficit spending, an illegitimate war, an explosion in the size of government,a decaying infrastructure, a image of shame around the globe,a decimated middle class,a deceitful/incompetent presidency, and plethora of other problems environmental and otherwise will be sufficient motivation to throw the bums out.

Yeah right, and who is the poll by?
How does Obama go from the lead to just in front of Biden in a matter of a week?

Obama all the Way!

Ah… YES!

Please people, PLEASE make Hillary the Democratic nominee. I can imagine no one more repulsively divisive who could galvanize the Republican counter-vote than she. Even half her own party wouldn't vote for her on a bet!

Pleeeeze…

Posted By Charles in Salt Lake City, UT : December 24, 2007 8:08 pm

Then why are you so scared?

Ah… YES!

Please people, PLEASE make Hillary the Democratic nominee. I can imagine no one more repulsively divisive who could galvanize the Republican counter-vote than she. Even half her own party wouldn't vote for her on a bet!

Pleeeeze…