On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
> For a while now, "generic" Dems have been polling better than actual
> Dems.
But has that been true for decades now? And then when an actual Dem becomes the candidate he polls as well as the generic did before?
What diminishes the Dems in such questions is that until the final face-off they are compared to each other, highlighting relative shortcomings none of them have when compared to the Repug.
I mean honestly -- were Dean to become the candidate, do you think this trope that "he's fast and loose with the facts" could possibly endure when he's compared to Bush? Or that he has low support among blacks?
Michael