QU poll: Obama the only one with a decent shot against Rudy-- as well as the most progressive! [View All]

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

Well, while we're in the business of citing (often dubious) polls in support of one candidate or another for the primary, I figured this one would be of interest:

http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5810295

Hillary, as always, performs the weakest of the "Big Three" candidates against the GOP opposition, but especially against Giuliani. While poll results have waxed and waned here and there, one of the most consistent results, poll after poll after poll, is that Hillary performs the poorest-- and loses by a big margin-- against the top Republican prospects, especially Giuliani.

Whereas Barack Obama consistently does the best, with Edwards in second. And this is before Obama has even done much of anything with the war chest that he is busily accumulating.

There's this unfortunate (and very inaccurate) falsehood circulating around that Obama is most popular with the "Netizens" and the Left Wing of the Democratic Party, but is a less mainstream candidate than Hillary. As we can see, the opposite is consistently true-- not only is Barack Obama closest to the progressive base of the Democratic Party, he's also by far our strongest candidate in the general election. He should be respected as such.