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Friday, December 05, 2003
It's all over but the
voting. Late to Blogland today, but didn't want to let the latest
Dean-Kerry poll numbers slip by.
The Boston Herald's David
Guarino plays
it up big today: the latest
Zogby
poll of New Hampshire
Democrats shows Howard Dean at 42 percent and John Kerry at 12
percent. The Manchester-based American
Research Group has Dean 45,
Kerry 13.
What this means is simple. It's
over. It's so over that I realize I'm rather late in saying
this.
Today's Washington Post has
a big piece
by Dan Balz on how Kerry plans to come back. The spin from the Kerry
campaign is pretty unconvincing -- so much so that The Note
calls
Balz's article a "para-obit."
At this point, a Dean loss would
qualify as the worst choke job since the 1978 Red Sox.
Consider:
-- Dean has not only held a big
lead since last summer, but it keeps growing.
-- He's got more money than anyone
else.
-- Potential voters are going to
tune out presidential politics until after New Year's. The New
Hampshire primary takes place on January 27, just a few weeks
later.
-- Though Dean has a penchant for
putting his foot in his mouth and for being slow to apologize, his
supporters don't seem to care.
There are a few clouds on Dean's
horizon. He's got to back down from his ridiculous refusal to release
his gubernatorial papers, for which he got poked by Boston
Globe and
New
York Times editorials
today.
But short of the Mother of All
Gaffes, it's hard to imagine how Dean could blow the enormous lead he
now has in both poll numbers and money. Democrats, meet your
nominee.
As for Kerry, how does secretary of
state sound?
Of course, his nephew is a lot
smarter than Sean Hannity.
Alan Colmes, the liberal
co-host of the Fox News debate program Hannity &
Colmes, lost an argument to his nephew Bryan while babysitting
the 8-year-old Monday.
Read the whole item at
The
Onion ("News in
Brief").
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
