Rating The ’08 Contenders
Chuck Todd and Marc Ambinder of The National Journal share their latest thoughts on the contenders and pretenders: moving up, both Rudy and Obama, though neither takes the top spot – yet…and moving way, way down, that lonely patrician known as JFK II…
I can’t help but notice that both parties have
a media/ insider designated frontrunner (Rudy/ Hillary), a “rock star” candidate with sky high approvals within their own party (Rudy/ Obama) and a pretty-boy candidate who originally won statewide office as a moderate, but then moved away from the center and is now campaigning as the authentic right/ left candidate (Romney/ Edwards).
Here is what I find really interesting: just about everyone in the media seems to think the Democratic rock star candidate has a better chance to win the nomination than the Republican one, despite the fact that Rudy is the one who’se actually, you know LEADING in the party preference polls and has an actual resume.