Well, 1.1% of you think Fred Thompson will be the Republican nominee and 0.4% went for Duncan Hunter. Both were a point or two higher on our poll before they dropped out of the race.
A little over half of you think it'll be John McCain and you may be right. It sure didn't look that way a month or two ago, and you still have a lot of prominent right-wingers saying he's "not acceptable." Actually, I think most folks in either party will find anyone who they think can win acceptable.
When I put this up a week ago, I said that I thought four of them had a shot at it. I meant Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain and Romney, of course. Just since then, everyone in the press seems to have given up on Giuliani, and Huckabee ain't looking so possible, either. I don't know which of the other guys is going to make it but I'm thinking Romney at the moment. Maybe I'll put this poll up again in a month and see what kind of results we get then.
In the meantime, here are the final numbers. I'll have the Democratic version up in a day or so.
Wondering why we're in the war we're in? Pondering how Iraq happened? A group called The Center for Public Integrity has set up an ambitious web catalog of false statements made by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and other top administration officials. There are, by the Center's count, more than 935 such remarks that got us there and kept us there. Here's a link to it.
If it's Wednesday, you still have time to vote in our poll, predicting who the Republican nominee will be. And if you've already voted, you can go back and change your vote. Several folks who picked Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson have done just that.
Click here to go there. And remember...no electioneering within 100 yards of the polling place!
Ezra Klein on why the 1994 Clinton plan for Universal Health Care failed...and why a new one might not. I suspect a big reason is that in 1994, health care in this country was merely way, way overpriced...and now it's worse.
A Marty Feldman sketch from one of his shows on British TV. You may remember this one because he also did it on The Flip Wilson Show...with Howard Cosell (of all people) playing the other guy at the end. I wish more of Mr. Feldman's work was available on DVD.
January 24, 2008
