The Last Exit Poll
I’m still laughing about this:
Democratic Sen John Kerry, considering a second bid for the US presidency, finished dead last in a poll on the likeability of 20 top American political figures.
Among those placed ahead of Kerry were about a dozen potential 2008 White House rivals, including Democratic Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Republican Sen John McCain of Arizona.
“This is bad bad news for Kerry,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut, which conducted the survey.
“Americans know who he is, and have pretty much decided they don’t like him,” said Brown. He noted the poll found that 95 per cent of respondents said they had heard enough about Kerry, who lost in 2004 to President George W. Bush, to rate the Massachusetts Democrat.
Kerry, of course, has responded to this by saying that his ranking must have come as a result of his slanderous remarks about the quality of America’s fighting men and women just before the election earlier this month. But that isn’t true.
Kerry was sucking long before that.
Kerry-Edwards ‘04: the bullet that keeps getting dodged.
