Still not here...
 

Back in my college daze, they recruited anyone with languages. They told us that drug use was "officially a problem", but that we should just (wink, wink) answer the questionaire as we saw fit.

'Course, it was pretty hard back then, at that particular school, to find anyone who wasn't using.

Two Percent.
 

New poll shows Bush's popularity with black Americans at two percent. It's the lowest rating ever recorded for a President.

Two percent.

That's just astonishing.

Two Percent.
 

To me, too.

Maybe people ARE sheep.

Two Potatoe, Three Potatoe
 

And Reagan's (and any other Repub's besides J.C. Watts's and Colin Powell's) popularity among blacks was what? 3%?

Two Percent.
 

I mean, I thought the basement for American politicians was much higher, even among groups that don't like the candidate.

Look at the Illinois Senate race. GOP ran Alan Keyes against Obama.

Keyes wasn't just a bad candidate, he was crazy. Batshit crazy. IIRC, the Illinois GOP establishment was almost openly embarrassed to run the guy, it was so bad. And even Keyes got something like 25-30% of the vote.













Edited to add, actually that's probably an imperfect analogy at best. Better is the previous polling mentioned in WaPo: "A few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found Bush's approval rating among blacks at 51 percent. As recently as six months ago, it was at 19 percent."

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I think McCain has got a good chance. If a moderate Republican doesn't run (Giulani, Rice, Pataki) I will support him. Although I find his "campaign finance reform" really hard to swallow. If character trumped policy I would support him for sure, but in my book it does not.

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I keep hearing about Rice, but I've never understood why. The woman's never held elective office of ANY kind, and she's been deeply involved in some of the GWB Administration's more controversial policy decisions.

Have you heard about her wanting to run, or is this a case of GOP analysts trying to find the anti-Hillary?

Two Percent.
 

Is this New Orleans? Maybe his mother's comment? That is the lowest percentage I have ever seen. Hell 0 is within the margin of error.

Two Percent.
 

True. Perhaps only imaginary black people support Bush.

WaPo noted that the overall poll hat 807 people, and about 89 blacks, so there's a definite margin of error problem. They also speculated that Katrina (and maybe his mom's comment, who knows) contributed to the drop, and move from simply not supporting him to being pissed at him.

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2. She seems like a pretty private person, and more scholarly than gregarious.

I think you're likely right that it's partly a hillary counter strategy--I'll match your woman with a black woman! Sucka!

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Because she comes from the Republicans worst demographic. She is a black women. A Black single women. By just who she is she would cut into the Democrats most secure base.

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Yeah, I understand that part. I was just curious whether Condi has ever said she would be willing to do something like that. Ya gotta want it BAD, and I have no idea if Condi does.

I also think the dynamic of a campaign would be, well, weird. "Poor campaigner? No elective experience? Don't worry! We'll surround her with experienced personnel in government, and it'll all be fine!"

Two Percent.
 

It exposes the very worst result of the racist plantation politics of the DNC. Very very sad that people are so oppresively deluded by the massive amounts of pork flavoured kool-aid and the lack of education courtesy of the socialist/liberal teacher's unions.

Finally . . .
 

Not much of a gift, but this is a good thing.

One problem is that Jordan is not big enough or strong enough to exert the same kind of control over those groups in the West Bank -- even if that part went back into Jordan.

But maybe Egypt could exert the same kind of influence over a unitary Palestinian state. Which would be ok with us so long as they are good citizens (i.e. "notSyria"). Potential downside -- control of these groups gives Egypt more leverage against us and Israel.

S_A_M

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my sources tell me she's far more likely to run for CA GOV or Senate.