Kitchen Table Poll Handicaps the Race

[illinoisprogressive]

This is an interesting article because it points to the fundemental problem the democrats keep repeating over and over again.
this lady conducts her own polling at her kitchen table of everyone from plumber to family and friends.
Unscientific it still reflects our polling and thinking.
since 1980 the democrats have developed a fatal flaw in the way they pick their nominees. They don't pick the one they really like for president. Instead they are so concerned with winning that they think they must pick the least appealing and most wonky of the bunch. Usually the nominee has been someone brainy but, short on personality. Someone who the establishment embraces as a certified centrist and lacking in appeal.
This lady's own polling is reflecting the same pattern and the fact that after almost 30 years we still cannot figure it out. And we are suppose to be the intelligent party. but, we overthink it. again and again.
In the poll Hillary wins the who they think will be the nominee and is accompanied by the inevitable but. So, yes I guess Hillary is inevitable in her own way. Inevitable in getting the but and followed by the don't like.
Of course we will never learn until the people who keep doing this over and over again are dead and buried and hoping the younger ones did not pick up our fatal habit.




The 2008 presidential race is off to an agonizingly early start; candidates are breaking one fundraising milestone after another. TV debates, including the ridiculous and demeaning YouTube spectacle complete with talking snowman, have started earlier than in any previous election cycle. Tossed in among the summer reruns the debates seem incongruous…or maybe not: There are a lot of reruns in those debates, which is probably why Barack Obama is generating so much media excitement with so little substance.

This far out from the election, large national polls are more a reflection of who is the current media darling than who is winning voters' hearts. The exception may be Hillary Clinton who does seem to be racking up a substantial lead on the Democrat side. The Republican field remains wide open, so much so that the top contenders could end up in the political version of a bar room brawl early next year in South Carolina.

With so much time before any ballots are cast, and so much flux in the field of candidates, I focus on the little-known but extremely reliable K-T Poll to get a grass roots read on how the political winds are blowing. Anyone who sits down at my ''Kitchen Table,'' from the plumber taking a coffee break to houseguests visiting from Chicago, are asked the following three questions: Who do you think will emerge as the Democrat candidate? Who will it be on the Republican side? If the election were held tomorrow, whom would you vote for?

http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/all-left_col-c.5978625aug05,0,7983970.column

[Mojorabbit]

1. Sounds like my kitchen table

I am hearing about the same thing.