Charles Hurt entrances in the Washington Times with Democratic presidential candidates lose popularity:
Most of the Democrats running for their party's presidential nomination have lost overall popularity among Democratic voters in key states since starting their campaigns this year."Will bloviate for power" doesn't seem to be a winning campaign slogan, I guess. Except for the Kool Aid Kontender, Howie Dean.
The article has a rundown of the Democrat candidates in the early primaries and their campaigns' responses to their diminishing popularity. My favorite:
[In New Hampshire] Democrats' impressions of Sens. Bob Graham of Florida and John Edwards of North Carolina have dropped by nearly half, into dangerously low territory, Mr. Smith said.Then again, Jamal, maybe they are confusing Bobby with Bozo and that's why his favorable numbers are as high as they are.
Mr. Graham faces similarly low popularity in South Carolina, where his rating has dropped 15 percentage points since he began campaigning. According to surveys conducted by American Research Group, the number of respondents with an unfavorable opinion of Mr. Graham surpasses the number of those with a favorable opinion by nine percentage points.
Graham spokesman Jamal Simmons said the campaign is aware of the problem.
In South Carolina, Mr. Simmons said, Democrats are registering their dislike for Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who won his seat in November. In New Hampshire, he said, Democrats are confusing Mr. Graham during telephone surveys with former Sen. Phil Gramm, a conservative Texas Republican who ran for president in 1996.
"It's no surprise that Democrats thinking of conservative Republicans would respond unfavorably," Mr. Simmons said. "We're sure those numbers will change when people get to know Bob Graham of Florida."
Best quote:
Democratic voters seem to have no confusion about Al Sharpton of New York. He is by far the most consistently disliked candidate in each state.There is yet hope for the republic.
