A new poll out shows that Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama would best the presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain while rival Sen. Hillary Clinton was tied in a head-to-head match-up.
The poll found Obama would win 48 percent to 41 percent while Clinton and McCain would be tied at 46 percent. The poll found that independents tilted towards Obama when he was matched up against McCain.
Still, Clinton is favored 48 percent to 42 percent among Democrats for their party’s presidential nomination.
Clinton campaign policy director Neera Tanden said Clinton and McCain have “stark differences” on issues like health care, the economy and national security. “She can go toe-to-toe with him on any of these issues and actually come out stronger.”
“On the most important foreign policy decision in perhaps a generation, I strongly believe John McCain got it wrong,” Obama told a news conference in Seattle, referring to the Iraq war.
Okay Democrats out there, in an unscientific survey, who would do better against McCain: Clinton or Obama, and why? And for Republicans, which Democrat will be easier to beat?
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- Additional reporting by Caren Bohan and Jeff Mason.
- Photo credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
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This has been the main problem with Hillary all along. Highly nominate-able but Hopelessly unelectable.
And it’s not just a fluke that Obama appeals more to people outside the Democratic party. He really seems to believe that we should not demonize “the opposition”, which means we’re in this together, let’s work things out, etc. So when he says “there is only one United States of America” you feel that he really feels that, and if you’re like me you start to feel it, too.
- Posted by Paul TinkerThere’s no way I’d vote McCain. http://joelodom.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-w ill-not-vote-for-john-mccain.html
- Posted by Joel OdomNobody knows. Not even Intrade. Either one of them could flop in the general election against McCain. Or either one could beat the pants off him. Or McCain could go apoplectic and commit political suicide. Who knows?
And incidentally, where’s the evidence that Obama really believes “we should not demonize the opposition”? Come on! He’s as much a politician as the rest of them. He’s turned the same blind eye to unscrupulous supporters, he’s had the same misleading mailers, and he’s even flung his share of mud in the debates. SC staff who published 4 pages on Clinton’s “latent racism” and “blatant disrespect” for Dr. King. Harry & Louise-style mailers on Clinton’s health care plan. A context-free Walmart remark when Clinton was an infamous pain in Walton’s fat, rich arse.
Ah, so it was his idea, this whole bringing-people-together thing? His record of bipartisanship in the Senate is no more impressive than Clinton’s or McCain’s, and many years shorter. I find it hard to believe my fellow Democrats are so naive.
- Posted by R-dogg