Straw Poll Shows Hillary Clinton’s Out in Washington’s Opinion
It's the biggest, snazziest, and just the most darn fun party leading up to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and this year's fete at Tammy Haddad's house included a new feature: voting by Washington's most powerful on who will be our next president. Tammy tells us that most of the 550 guests voted. “It was about an 80 percent turnout,” she tells us. Some, like NBC's Tim Russert, didn't vote, of course, being too nonpartisan to participate. But most everybody else in the crowd of Washington's most important political and media biggies couldn't resist the kids asking for their vote. And the final tally:
Sen. Barack Obama--43 percent
Sen. John McCain--38 percent
Sen. Hillary Clinton--19 percent.
"If Obama wins, clearly we will become the ultimate finger in the wind," says Haddad, the former right-hand woman for Larry King and Chris Matthews and now a PR exec. Her regular hosts for the "11th Annual Garden Brunch" were other Washington big shots, including Hilary Rosen, Alex Castellanos, Debbie Dingell, David Adler, Kathryn Leyman, and Beth Viola.
The voting clearly shows a trend that has been growing in official Washington: There is an increasing weariness with the Clintons and a desire for somebody new to watch and cover. But it also shows the resilience of McCain, who is a media darling of sorts. And it might prove what the Clintons have been saying all along: The political and media elites just don't like her. For fun, Adler, a pal, partner, and cohost of Haddad's who is CEO of Bizbash media, made a funny video of the polling of guests at the party on all sorts of other questions. See it here on YouTube.
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Clintons' Out In Washington
Maybe it's just because the Washington media knows the Clintons well- and knows them for the corrupt liars they are. Maybe because all the good people from the Clinton Administration (Robert Rubin, etc) are working for Obama, but the criminals (like Sandy Berger, who destroyed classified documents relating to 9/11 from the National Archives and lost his security clearances) are working for Hillary. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of Clinton Associates who were indicted, convicted, or gone to jail. And we're worried about one wacky Pastor? Bill Clinton: disbarred and impeached. Do we really want him back in the Oval Office with his pants down around his ankles again? We had 8 years of them. ENOUGH!
No more Jokes in the White House please.
We've had enough of them(the latest joke being dubya).
No more please, vote Obama.
FIRE THEM
The media has done everything they could to get Obama elected and I absolutely believe that they all intend to vote for McCain. Why? Because they earn more than the 200K per year. Both Hillary and Barry claim they will raise taxes on those with income over the $200K per year. The media don't want their taxes raised so they pushed up the one guy they knew could not be elected, Obama. The media knew of the Rev. Wright issues last December but waited untill they had convinced enough fools to vote for him, putting him ahead in the delegate count before ever letting their viewers know about Rev. Wright, Resko, Ayers ect.
If the superdelegates are fool enough to nominate Obama he will be beaten by McCain....in fact I doubt that Obama can carry 6 states against McCain. Obama will absolutely lose MA to McCain. Kennedy and Kerry and Duval Patrick have all endorsed Obama but we the people in MA said "NObama". Hillary won by double digits which is about the number I expect Kennedy and Kerry to lose their own next elections here in MA. Oprah was added to the group of endorsing fools and stumped for Obama in CA but once again Hillary won CA. Hispanics of CA will not vote Obama and it is doubtfull that Jewish people will vote Obama so he will also lose CA. Find the last time a democrat won the Office of President without winning MA and/or CA.
Now ask yourself why Superdelegates that also hold offices they need to run for would nominate a man that they know has no chance of winning??? Because they are long time friends of McCain and if they can not get this Obama guy that Kennedy knows he can control then he would prefer McCain, his long time friend. Kennedy knows that he can not control Hillary.
Becarefull what you wish for because a vote for Obama is a vote for McCain.
VOTE HILLARY
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