says 44% oppose her running for Prez, and New Republic suggests she can not get the Perot vote if she hangs with the far left's mushy Democratic policies and attitudes on national defense and security.
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Lady Prez is OK: poll
BY JOE MAHONEYDAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF
A growing number of Americans - 64% - think the nation is ready for a woman as President, though Democrats are more partial to the concept than Republicans, according to a new snapshot of voter sentiment. The poll by the Siena College Research Insitute and Hearst Newspapers also detected growing enthusiasm for a theoretical presidential bid by Secretary of State Rice. The survey found 48% hoping she would enter the 2008 presidential race, up six points from a similar poll last year. Meanwhile, 51% encouraged Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) to make a White House run, although that was a 2% drop from the support level the same poll detected last year. For Clinton, the poll should be another reminder that she needs to begin stressing populist messages on improving the economy, according to Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf. "She needs to do better with white Catholic men from the Midwest," Sheinkopf said. Three-quarters of Democrats told the Siena pollsters they think the nation is ready for a woman to run the country; only half of the Republicans polled agreed with that. But only about one in five said they could not vote for a woman for President, the poll found. Although First Lady Laura Bush has never openly coveted trading places with her husband, just 11% said she should run for President. Originally published on February 21, 2006 ...<snip>
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http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/60201.htmRESISTANCE TO HILL'S RUN RISING: POLL
By DEBORAH ORIN
February 21, 2006 -- Forty-four percent of voters across the country oppose a 2008 run for the White House by Hillary Clinton, a new poll shows.
That's up from 37 percent a year ago, according to the Siena College/Hearst newspapers poll. And while 53 percent said last year that she should go for it, only 51 percent think so now.
By contrast, support for a presidential bid by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is up to 48 percent, from 42 percent last year. <snip>
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Third Party politics is the subject of "Three's a Crowd: The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence," which says third parties flash briefly in the gaps left by those failures of Democratic and Republican parties, causing a sensation in one election, and a disappointment in the next that is caused by one or both major parties successfully absorbing the third party's constituency. But in appropriating the third party's constituents, the major parties open themselves up to change. This is what the authors call the "dynamic of third parties." The New Republic's Marty Peretz then writes that the "Perot wild card without Perot is bad news for Democrats."….. "Most of those middle-aged voters who went for Perot simply cannot vote for the mushy Democratic policies and attitudes on national defense and security. In any case, it is good news for John McCain."
http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20060227&s=diarist022706CAMBRIDGE DIARIST
Perotists
by Martin Peretz
Ross Perot ran for president twice, first in 1992 against George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the second time in 1996 against Clinton and Bob Dole. In both races, he ran without the support of a major party. (He funded his initial run, under the banner "United We Stand," himself; the next, as a representative of the Reform Party, he did not.) I recently asked a small group of Harvard undergraduates, "Who is Ross Perot?" A Texas billionaire, said one. He bought a copy of the Magna Carta, said another, conjuring an idiosyncratic but correct detail from Perot's life. He also bought General Motors, piped up a third, and was wrong at that: Actually, Perot sold his company, Electronic Data Systems, to GM. <snip>
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