Hillary Clinton's inexorable march toward the White House continues this week, fresh off a weekend when she humanized herself with an off-tune rendition of the national anthem, rhetorically kicked Dubya's ass by declaring that it would be the height of irresponsiblity for him to leave office with U.S. troops still stuck in Iraq, essentially passing his disaster on to the next president -- and that, as the presumptive next president -- she was "offended" by the mere possibility ... and when new polls showed her watering the garden with her Democratic and Republican opponnents. First, the poll: it's from Newsweek, and it shows Bush plummeting to still further depths following his sorry State of the Union speech, and Hillary rising, fast:
Jan. 27, 2007 - President George W. Bush concluded his annual State of the Union address this week with the words “the State of our Union is strong … our cause in the world is right … and tonight that cause goes on.” Maybe so, but the state of the Bush administration is at its worst yet, according to the latest NEWSWEEK Poll. The president’s approval ratings are at their lowest point in the poll’s history—30 percent—and more than half the country (58 percent) say they wish the Bush presidency were simply over, a sentiment that is almost unanimous among Democrats (86 percent), and is shared by a clear majority (59 percent) of independents and even one in five (21 percent) Republicans. Half (49 percent) of all registered voters would rather see a Democrat elected president in 2008, compared to just 28 percent who’d prefer the GOP to remain in the White House. ...
Oh, God, that's depressing! Please, let's get back to Hillary:
Sen. Hillary Clinton has pumped up her lead over GOP Sen. John McCain since she formally announced she's running for President, a new poll shows. Clinton would defeat McCain - who has taken heat for defending President Bush's stance on the Iraq war - 50% to 44%, according to a Newsweek poll released yesterday.
A Newsweek survey conducted right before Clinton's Jan. 20 announcement had her leading McCain 48% to 47%.
Newsweek found freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would also beat McCain, 48% to 42%, and former veep nominee John Edwards would edge McCain by four points - within the survey's margin of error.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani would also lose to Clinton in a White House faceoff, although she bested the Republican by a slim 49% to 46%.
Giuliani lost to Obama by three points, but defeated Edwards in a one-point dead heat.
All three Democrats would crush Massachusetts Republican Mitt Romney, the survey found.
Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics cautioned that the election is a long way off.
"All it means is that right now, the Republicans are in terrible shape," Sabato said.
"Right now, just about any Democrat could beat just about any Republican," he said. "This is more a measure of the fact that right now, Democrats are riding high. Too bad for them the election isn't next month."
Given a choice between Clinton and Edwards, Dems chose Clinton 62% to 29% as their party's standard bearer.
In a matchup with Obama, Clinton won 55% to 35%.
Ah ... that's better. Poll geeks can click here for the particulars.
I don't think this is curtains for Barack by any stretch -- he only has room to grow, and the real odd man out right now is our man Edwards, who only has Iowa to hang on to at the moment, and Hil is quickly moving in there, too. And speaking of same, Hillary was in Iowa over the weekend, singing her little Hillary heart out ... and badly ... to absolutely adorable effect:
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