Pollsters call for Obama to step aside

[proud2BlibKansan]

Reviving an idea they floated last year with an op-ed urging President Obama not to seek a second term, pollsters Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen are out today with a new op-ed drafting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be the Democrats’ 2012 nominee.

Obama should “abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative,” Caddell and Schoen wrote in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, because “the kind of campaign required for the president’s political survival would make it almost impossible for him to govern — not only during the campaign, but throughout a second term.”

“Never before has there been such an obvious potential successor — one who has been a loyal and effective member of the president’s administration, who has the stature to take on the office, and who is the only leader capable of uniting the country around a bipartisan economic and foreign policy,” they wrote of Clinton.

The two pollsters have worked for a number of high-profile Democrats — Caddell for George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, and Schoen for President Bill Clinton and for Hillary Clinton in 2008. But they are also known for taking positions that are at odds with the Democratic Party.



Read more: http://midwestdemocracyproject.org/blogs/entries/pollsters-call-obama-step-aside/#comments#ixzz1eOZP4Zqo

[aquart]

1. Partisan, much?

[stevedeshazer]

2. Message to pollsters: You're pollsters.

Bleep off.

[sufrommich]

9. They're not pollsters, they're Fox News employees. nt

[bluestateguy]

16. The job of pollster is not a reputatble profession

I would say being a bouncer in a strip club is a more reputable profession than being a pollster.

[Chorophyll]

3. I can't even be bothered to locate the popcorn smiley. nt

[Electric Monk]

10. I brought enough to share

[Chorophyll]

11. Oh, thanks! :::CRUNCH:::

[AsahinaKimi]

27. THANKS!

[polmaven]

19. Don't bother trying...

It was all eaten durng the last gazillion times this was posted.

[undeterred]

31. No. You need this one.

:eyes:

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. So, this is not the Onion?

[Turbineguy]

5. ".... positions that are at odds with the Democratic Party."

Like they are republicans?

[Kingofalldems]

6. Fox News. End of story.

[Vadem]

7. Pat Cadell??? Give me a break! He calls himself a Dem but

he is the most Republican AH calling himself a Dem I have ever witnessed! PLEASE!!!!

[provis99]

8. good lord, the bitter PUMAs are still around?

[FrenchieCat]

12. FrenchieCat calls for Poster to step aside......

and stop spreading Fox News sponsored propaganda.

[SidDithers]

36. +1...nt

Sid

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Fox News' favorite "Democrat," Pat Caddell?

:eyes:

[bluestateguy]

14. Please don't post this

Caddell and Schoen have zero credibility.

I would listen to Mark Penn and Bob Shrum before those two bozos.

[Tx4obama]

15. What does this part mean?

Excerpt: " ... because “the kind of campaign required for the president’s political survival would make it almost impossible for him to govern — not only during the campaign, but throughout a second term."

What does campaigning in 2012 have anything to do with governing in the years 2013-2016 ???


Those two guys sound like two nuts that just haven't accepted the fact that Hillary lost and Obama won.

Using their logic it would mean that ALL presidents could only serve 'one term' because they'd have to be out campaigning if they wanted a second term - LOL !!!

[blue neen]

17. Spare us, please.

Geez.

[Kahuna]

18. Ha ha! Patrick Caddell. I remember that loon. He lost his marbles years ago..

:rofl:

If old pat and the rest of the pumas want to see Hillary elected they need to work their butts off to see that Obama gets his second term so she doesn't have to run against a repuke incumbent in 2016.

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[FrenchieCat]

23. Caddell, is that you?

:rofl:

[virgogal]

26. Hmmmm !

[jaxx]

28. Did you write that OP?

[Old and In the Way]

21. Sounds like Republican desperation.

Polling must be shaping up to be a wipeout in 2012. I can't think of anything dumber than for Democrats to take a Fox News employee's suggestion seriously.

[Aerows]

25. Wouldn't you be desperate

If the current people they have were your choices? I don't know why they don't just give up right now, because there isn't a one of those clowns that is electable.

[Dawson Leery]

22. Fox "News" Pollsters do NOT count.

[Aerows]

24. If I had the crop of candidates they have

I'd be trying to get Obama to step aside, too, since they only chance they have to win with one of the lame candidates they have is for nobody to run against them.

A turnip would be a better choice as the Republican nominee than what they currently have, and I find it absolutely delicious.

[DonCoquixote]

29. Anyone who did nto see this coming

was simply not looking.

[DonCoquixote]

30. also

what this is is a means to make sure the left is burned out. The fact OWS is around means this is weakeness to them, whereas Hillary and Bill would have squashed it.

[RandySF]

32. 'Pat Caddell' says it all.

[AtomicKitten]

33. Anybody here ever check for dupes?

here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2357334&mesg_id=2357334
here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x819886
here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x819917
and here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=819426&mesg_id=819426

[dkf]

34. LAME.

Wasn't Pat Caddell a Clinton hater or is that my imagination? This is odd.

[Bucky]

35. Yawn. Has Pat Caddell ever backed a winner in his life?