And the race for 2008 is on
Political pollsters need to justify their existence. Chief among them is Rassmusen Reports. The company has turned its efforts at handicapping the 2008 Presidential race.
Following Election 2006, the nation can look forward to our first female Speaker of the House. Another woman, Senator Hillary Clinton, is the initial frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. However, another freshman Senator, Barack Obama, is close on her heels.
The first release of the Rasmussen Reports 2008 Presidential Tracking Poll finds Clinton the choice of 29% while Obama has 22%. Former Vice President Al Gore is number three with 13% and the 2004 Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards is also in double digits at 10%. The Democrats' 2004 standard bearer, John Kerry, is the choice of just 4%.
Not only do I find it risible people are thinking seriously about Obama for president; but am actually relieved that only 4% wants Kerry back. John needs a looooong vacation away from the political spotlight. He ought to focus on becoming the next Chuck Schumer.
I insist that Obama is too green to be considered presidential material. I'd rather see the profile of a Gov. Schweitzer raised significantly in the next 2 years. And I'm still looking at both Gore and Edwards independently since I doubt Edwards would want to play second fiddle to anybody this time around.
As for the Republicans, here's their numbers :
Democrats carried the day in Election 2006 and the 2008 campaign has already begun. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani leads the GOP field and is supported by 24%. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in second with 18% support.
Senator John McCain earned a lot of important friends with his aggressive campaigning in 2006, but he starts the 2008 campaign as the choice for 17% of voters.
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney comes in fourth with 9% support.
Another funny moment : Condoleeza Rice? Oh niggah, please.
If Florida is any indication I am going to take a wild guess and say that Jeb Bush will run for President in 2008.
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Poll About Bushes
Submitted by JJ Ross on 9 November 2006 - 4:27pm.
I don't have a link but in the election coverage the cable reporters were marveling over an approval poll of Floridians, showing the majority disapproved of Pres Bush at the same time that Jeb Bush had something like 77% approval!
(If it hadn't been for him personally planning to use state employees to kidnap Terri Schiavo, and how stubbornly he still insists that testing equals education, I might be in that majority myself.)
Like his large-and-in-charge counterpart in Collie-for-neeah, I think Jeb Bush is dynamic and that he will indeed be a presidential candidate to be reckoned with at some point. He may have more riding on the next year or so turning things around in Iraq than any other R. If it really happens, he could suddenly be drafted as a favorite (by the party, I mean, not Uncle Sam.)
What I Heard
Submitted by JJ Ross on 9 November 2006 - 4:17pm.
was pundit and reporter speculation yesterday that Condi Rice would indeed be on the fast track to power, influence and stardom by Rummy leaving and the pragmatic paternal Bush sensibility taking over. If she can make it work, of course -- but that her opportunity to be all she can be has arrived.
What do you think of that, Liza? I admit she interests me as a puzzle to solve, sort of, because she isn't all out there on the surface and seems generally to know a lot and to think deeply about dealing with different cultures. And that she's not a lawyer but a scholar. Also I like that she's a classical pianist and skater because it seems tied to the discipline she mustered to be a woman on her own rather than attached to a husband . . .is she like some skinny, cerebral Oprah maybe? 
Gore / Obama 2008
Submitted by Gorebama (not verified) on 9 November 2006 - 10:24pm.
Obama may be green as you say, but his star power can't be taken lightly. Who knows what may happen when you put him to the test in Iowa? I don't see any reason why he couldn't win a primary, or the general election.
His greenness could be offset with a pairing with a seasoned politician. I would love to see him run with Al Gore, and have a sort of "return to prosperity and hope" ticket that the two would embody. I think that combination is a winner after eight years of George Bush.
So we put together a little site to that effect: www.gorebama.com
Edwards vs. Bush. Jeb
Edwards vs. Bush.
Jeb doesn't act anywhere near the buffoon his brother does, so he might actually be able to pull it off.
And Edwards has impressed me with how he has conducted himself through all the rounds of mudslinging since 2004. He hasn't made any bad jokes
and has been working on poverty. So far, he hasn't ticked me off! 
Nance