Hillary's presidential poll numbers at Rasmussen are at a low:

...just 27% of Americans say they would definitely vote for the former first lady while 43% would definitely vote against. Still, 59% of Americans believe it is somewhat or very likely that she will be the Democrat's nominee in 2008.

Among Democrats, the number who would definitely vote for Clinton dropped 11 percentage points over the past two weeks.

This is a microcosm of the Democrats' problem. Their base won't allow them to nominate anyone who can win a general election, whether Hillary (who is a powerhouse of the party but politically unappealing to much of the electorate) or someone who will have to tack too far left to win the nomination to find their way back to the center in the fall.

And I was saying months ago (maybe years) that as inopportune as it might have been for her to run in '04, it was nevertheless her best chance.

I am doubly cursed: I'm so often right when contradicting the conventional wisdom, yet nobody reads my blog.

Then again, if everyone read my blog, what I say might become conventional wisdom.

Their base won't allow them to nominate anyone who can win a general election...

Don't tell them, let'em figure it out on their own.

[This is a microcosm of the Democrats' problem.]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte