2008 Newsweek Poll: only 28% want a Republican as president, 58% oppose Gingrich

[Grebrook]

http://www.pollingreport.com/2008.htm#misc

So basically as we have to do to win in 2008 is not nominate:

Gore
Kerry
Clinton

And we essentially win automatically. I'm for Clark or Edwards. If McCain or Guiliani get the nomination it'll be like 2004 again, a tight race. But that won't happen. It'll be some right-wing social conservative lunatic like Sam Brownback who compares abortion to "the holocaust", or Mitt Romney or Gingrich. I personally think it is the duty of every Democratic voter in this country to vote in the GOP primary in 2008 and make sure that little weasel Newt Gingrich gets the nomination and is crushed in a landslide.

[WiseButAngrySara]

1. Neuter Newt! "that little weasel...." ....n/t

[Catch22Dem]

2. Brownback? Are you fucking kidding me?

Did his own brother do this poll or something? Who would include that crazy motherfucker?

[BootinUp]

3. We have to focus on

What the electorate said in this election. Stop corruption, change the direction in Iraq, hold hearings on Iraq war debacle, increase minimum wage. We will probably have to hold off on real change in controversial issues like health care and tax changes and trade issues until after 2008, I think.

[madmusic]

4. Gingrich, I hate the bastard! He started this shit:

http://www.propagandacritic.com/articles/examples.newt.html">Propaganda Critic: Examples > How Newt Gingrich used these techniques

[skipos]

5. I am surprised Kerry and Gore's numbers are worse than Clinton's

I know these polls are going to change a lot over 2 years, but still...

[troublemaker]

6. Americans hate losers. (They lack the "mandate of heaven")

The two least popular picks happen to be the second and third biggest vote getters in American history. The top vote getter (Bush in 2004) has a 30% approval.

People want a fresh face not tainted with defeat... if you lose an election (or a war) you are, if nothing else, at least unlucky. And nobody wants an unlucky President.