[lbo-talk] waiting for the quantitative to turn into the qualitative

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 9 12:46:59 PDT 2008


On May 9, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
> On the Dem's advantage I referred to -- and on daily polls -- from a
> mind not fogged by the follies of Obamania:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/opinion/09krugman.html

Well yeah. As Jim Farmelant put it the other day, the Dems could nominate a dead dog and win. In fact a dead dog might do better than an actual human Democrat! Generic Dems often poll better than actual Dems. But this party advantage has almost nothing to do with the magic guy.

Doug



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