Who knows if this means anything but the latest results are in from a Seacoast NH region hotbed of political activism-- the annual member's holiday party at Wentworth-By-the-Sea Country Club. According to an informal straw poll last week among 300 members (63 percent Republican and 37 percent Democrat), Rudy Giuliani and Barack Obama won close victories over Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton respectively.
Here are the top 3 results:
Republicans: Giuliani 34 percent, Romney 32 percent, and John McCain, 27 percent.
Democrats: Obama 44 percent, Clinton 40 percent and John Edwards, 14 percent.
This straw poll came before the onslaught of recent state polls that showed Romney with double-digit margin over McCain and Giuliani and Obama-Clinton in a virtual dead heat with Edwards behind by a double-digit margin with a little more than three weeks to go.
Billymouth
It was no surprise that Bill Shaheen fell on his sword for Clinton after his baffling open-mouth exercise slamming Obama for his self-confessed drug use as a young man and suggesting that the Republicans would slice and dice him in a general election (as if they needed an excuse or anything resembling facts to do it anyway). Shaheen is an old political pro who knows New Hampshire upside down and rightside up but his poor judgment (I hope it was poor and not a planned exercise in self-immolation) stemmed from a frustration that has dogged the Clinton campaign for months -- they didn't expect the Obama tornado and mostly they didn't know how to deal with it when it showed staying power beyond the celebrity circus at the beginning of the campaign. Bill Shaheen knows New hampshire and has a great sense of what's happening on the ground -- what he and the Clintonites have yet to figure out is that Obama and his campaign may have a better grasp of what's happening today than they do.
Oh yea, they had a debate in the Iowa yesterday. In case you missed it this afternoon battle, in my daily link here's a boring recap.
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