New Poll Out

... and of course it is all bad for President Bush.

Here is my favorite tidbit:

Congress is criticized by nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Americans for not being assertive enough in challenging the Bush administration’s conduct of the war. Even a third (31 percent) of rank-and-file Republicans say the previous Congress, controlled by their party, didn’t do enough to challenge the administration on the war. [Emphasis mine.]

Hmm... it looks like America is finally realizing that they should have listened to the caveat emptor of (gasp!) the anti-war liberals, and now 64% of America (and even 31 percent of Repbulicans) is realizing that Congress should do what (gasp!) the anti-war liberals have been telling them to do for the last 5 years: Ask questions, find answers, don't believe everything that people like Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney tell you, and most importantly... look before you f**king leap so that we don't get into messes like Iraq.

Another more unbelievable result of this particular poll: The three top Democratic presidential candidates beat the two top Republican candidates in 5 out of 6 matchups.

Clinton	v.	McCain	+6	at 50 to 44
Clinton	v.	Giuliani	+3	at 49 to 46
Obama	v.	McCain	+6	at 48 to 42
Obama	v.	Giuliani	+3	at 47 to 44
Edwards	v.	McCain	+4	at 48 to 44
Edwards	v.	Giuliani	-1	at 46 to 47

That bascially means that before any positions have been stated, any campaigning has been done... really with only personal likeability and reputations to poll about... The generally likeable McCain and Giuliani (most likely because of negative attitudes towards Republicans) are polling behind the generally unlikeable Hillary, the untested and inexperienced Obama, and even the almost-forgotten Edwards.

That bodes really poorly for Republican chances of holding the White House in 2008, as it is hard to imagine that as the campaign heats up, Hillary could become more unlikeable, Obama more inexperienced, or Edwards more forgotten.

The liberal RINO Giuliani (with no Senatorial voting record hanging over his head, which has been the kiss of death to every Senator-turned-Presidential-candidate since John Kennedy) is the only hope the Republicans have to take the White House in 2008. The question is can he win a majority of Republican support in the primaries? Probably not, but one can hope: My general preference is a split government, keeping a liberal (but not too liberal) Congress and a conservative (but not too conservative) executive.