The Most Polarizing Presidential Candidate?


	The Most Polarizing Presidential Candidate?

BobbyRutan

10-22-2007 11:48 PM

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politics, 2008, election, repuglicans, democrats, conservatives, liberals

BobbyRutan says:

Obama only 39%

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c310bc6e-2ae5-4dec-9bc2-f77af1b74ac3/F7617713-DC56-4CCD-B7B0-CE948937B9DE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php" href="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.liberaloasis.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php">Here's some poll data that I don't believe has received much attention.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php">ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL. Sept. 27-30, 2007</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php">If [see below] wins the Democratic/Republican nomination for president would you definitely vote for him/her in the general election for president in 2008, would you consider voting for him/her or would you definitely not vote for him/her?"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php"><P><EM>PERCENT SAYING "DEFINITELY WOULD NOT"</EM></p> <P><EM>Obama -- 39%
Clinton -- 41%
Edwards -- 43%
Giuliani --  44%
McCain --  45%
Thompson -- 54%
Romney -- 57%</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php">What's does that mean?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php"><STRONG>2. Further, every Dem is less polarizing than every Republican,</STRONG> even the sainted John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. Yet there has been no punditocracy discussion of whether McCain, Giuliani, Thompson "can win" either nationally or in certain areas of the country.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2007/10/the_most_polarizing_prez_candi.php"><STRONG>Having said all that, the whole question of polarization when gauging presidential candidates is obsolete.</STRONG> In today's political and media landscape, any candidate will be (and is) rejected by 40% of the country  on Day 1</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F7617713-DC56-4CCD-B7B0-CE948937B9DE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>