The Dems are, granted, but the Republicans are not. At least we shouldn’t be.
The Washpost’s Dana Milibank relates in today’s paper [story] that the RNC has pointed out that Dean is second in all national polls, to no one in particular.
A CBS poll earlier this month showed OTHER leading Dean, 15-percent to 14-percent. Granted, that’s doubtlessly within the poll’s margin of error, but OTHER is still the nominal frontrunner. Or do I speak to quickly? As Milibank wrote:
The RNC also pointed to a Fox News poll finding Mr. Not Sure with a 4-percentage-point lead over Dean, a Los Angeles Times poll showing Mr. Don’t Know at 37 percent, more than tripling Dean’s 12 percent, and a CNN/Time poll putting Mr. Not Sure/Other’s support at 32 percent to Dean’s 14 percent.
To Milibank, it’s a goofy joke, but to a serious political observer, it is a clear indication that it’s naïve to declare Howard Dean the Democrat nominee. And, clinging to my original thesis, it’s too early to count out candidate John Edwards.
The piece was light in nature and a fun read, though. Here’s another, this about the deranged general:
Let’s hope Wesley K. Clark comes up with a program for national dental care. The retired general’s forces report giving out more than 15,000 Clark bars in the past 10 days. Meanwhile, Clark, who has had his share of Thanksgivings with the troops, spent the holiday in Little Rock as the guest of Peter Stevenson, identified by the campaign as a descendant of Pocahontas.
I tried Googling Mr. Stevenson using a myriad of appropriate search terms, and the closest I got was the following, from the January 17, 2002 online edition of the “Jewish tabloid” USAJewish.com:
A SCOT has been jailed for a year on terrorist charges in the United Arab Emirates after telling an air hostess her airline “needed a bomb put under it to wake it up”. Peter Stevenson, 49, a businessman living in Kuwait, was found guilty in a Dubai court of threatening to blow up a Cathay Pacific plane while drunk.
The online tabloid references the London Daily Telegraph. This Peter Stevenson is evidently from Scotland and thus is not likely the descendent of a Native American princess.
Oh, well.
