Obama Pulls Even With Clinton In New Poll
Expect the political fireworks to start. Soon.
A new poll indicates that Senator Barack Obama has now pulled even with Senator Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination sweepstakes so expect the remaining kid gloves to come off in the campaign…OR expect the candidates to scramble to raise their respective profiles higher than the other:
On the heels of a burst of successful fund-raising, Democratic 2008 presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) has pulled even with frontrunner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a new poll released on Monday found.
Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, has steadily gained on Clinton, a veteran on the national political scene, over the last month and each now polled 32 percent among likely Democratic voters, the survey by Rasmussen Reports found. Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina was third in the poll with 17 percent.
In late March, New York’s Clinton held a 12-point lead over Illinois’ Obama in the Rasmussen poll.
The survey was the latest sign the former first lady, who now represents New York in the Senate, will have a tough fight ahead to win the Democratic nomination. Obama, who has served two years in the U.S. Senate, earlier this month revealed he raised $25.8 million in the first quarter of 2007, nearly matching the $26 million she raised.
This is a further sign that 2007 has been a notable bad year for Political Inevitability.
It was clear that Ms. Clinton wanted her nomination to be seen as inevitable…unstoppable. And it was also clear that Senator John McCain was at one point way ahead in the polls and some said he was the inevitable GOP establishment nominee, maverick or no maverick.
But, in fact, the front-runners who were are not longer necessary the front runners who are. And they will want to remain front-runners and they each have capable political staffs — who could soon be unleashed to take more aggressive paths.
8 Responses to “Obama Pulls Even With Clinton In New Poll”
It is clear to many that John McCain’s campaign is faultering. His old friend Fred Thompson is about to announce and the excitement is building excitement even amoung the university students. See what college activists are doing on campus.
Thats because I started spending my time telling everyone what Hillary Clintons plans for Iraq are.
Now the antiwar sentiment is kicking in and bringing Obama to the forefront in the Democratic party because he wants to run like a chicken. He wants to reinvent the Cluck, Cluck, Cluck Foreign policy of Jimmy Carter. The one that got us 21 percent interest rates, got us hostages in Iran, got a gutted CIA, got one of our only allies at the time in the Gulf overthrown, got us into a massive mess and then………..when he was losing the primaries to Ted Kennedy spilt the beans on the TOP SECRET Stealth Fighter so that he could prove to those naysayers that he liked the Military.
Jimmy Carter was such a joke. He was so Inexperienced and now the Democrats want to turn to someone like Obama in perhaps the most challenging Foreign policy times of the United States Life. To turn to the sound byte master of all Time. Perhaps he can grin his way to the White House. AFter all for those not old enough to remember. Thats what Jimmy Carter did. He had this infectious smile that the press was enamoured with.
Opps they forgot to ask him what he believed. But at the time. The USA was coming off the war in Viet Nam and I believe that any Democrat would have been elected to the White House then. Same thing Holds true. I just hope The democrats are a little smarter this time around.
What I really do fear is someone like Obama at the helm. I dont fear the democrats in charge, I do fear someone like Obama with his ZERO experience running the USA. God help us all. Look at our history. Every inexperienced president has given us a HUGE MESS. Bush, Carter, US GRANT, LINCOLN. I mean the list goes on and on.
So don’t let your hate for Bush sway your brains. Vote for someone capable of running the country. Obama will still be around in 8 years. Or vote for Obama and enjoy 4 years of Comedic relief like we had with Carter. 2 years after his election even the Democrats were embarrased they voted for him.
Obama’s foreign policy speech yesterday makes clear that he has the moderate vision to lead America. For six years we have had a radical foreign policy which would make Ike wonder what happened to his party.
Obama’s appeal can be traced to many things including his appeal to Americans to return to a more inclusive politics which doesn’t try to turn everything into a wedge issue. But maybe his greatest appeal is that way back when he was a state senator and a candidate for the US Senate he had the vision and the courage to come out clearly against the war in Iraq. That took real courage at a time when his whole political future was in the balance. We need a national debate which gets beyond how the war was badly executed to why it was a mistake in the first place and the result of that debate will be a realignment of American politics.
These aren’t lefty ideas, their the very arguments that the friends of Bush 1 were making before we put our nation’s feet in quick sand that has, quit predictably, left our military weaker, our world leadership in doubt and the mid east less safe.
It is time for moderates and independents to get behind Obama.
Democrats are looking for a genuine connection with their candidates, and they are not going to get it from Hillary. I admire her from a distance, but don’t think she is doing her party any favors by running-there is too much animosity out there for her from people who disliked her in the 90′s. Obama doesn’t have that kind of baggage and he can eat away at her popularity among African-Americans who loved her husband so much.
[...] In related news, Joe Gandelman reports that Barack Obama has caught up with Hillary Clinton in the polls. Both receive the support of 32% of likely Democratic voters. Joe writes that “it has been a bad year for political inevability.” The reason for that, of course, is that there is no such thing as political inevability. [...]
It is time for moderates and independents to get behind Obama.
Yes and push him out the door.
Phil,
I share your sense of appreciation for Obama’s Foreign affairs speech.
OBAMA IS A HYPOCRITE, HIM AND HILLARY ARE VOTING TO CONTINUE FUNDING THE WAR AND ARE SAYING “BRING THEM HOME NOW”. BOTH CRAP. I AM A BLACK WOMAN (DEM) AND PEOPLE HAVE ASKED IF I AM VOTING OBAMA BECAUSE HES BLACK OR HILLARY BECAUSE SHES A WOMAN. I THINK IM GOING TO VOTE REP THIS TIME AROUND. ALL FULL OF CRAP!!