Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Poll: Dodd's a dud in Connecticut

It's hard to interpret this one. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) in running for president, but he's in fourth place among possible 2008 Democratic presidential contenders--in a poll of voters in his home state. He's even behind Al Gore, who insists he is not a candidate.

Maybe Connecticut Democrats realize that having another New Englander at the top of the ticket is not the smartest way to win the White House next year. Or perhaps the poll is seriously flawed. Or maybe the folks in Constitution State don't like Dodd.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, Hillary Clinton, who lives about 10 miles from the Connecticut border in Westchester County, leads among potential Connecticut voters with 33 percent favoring her. Barack Obama is a distant second with 21 percent. Gore has 9 percent, with Dodd right behind with 8 percent.

Yesterday Dodd was in Iowa--name recognition is a problem for him there, but he doesn't face the same roadblock in his home state.

The last time a major party nominee came out of nowhere to win his party's nod was Jimmy Carter in 1976. Before that you have to go back to Wendell Wilkie, the Republican choice in 1940.

Carter won, but was a disaster as a president. Wilkie lost to FDR, but was a pretty good defeated candidate.

But Chris Dodd won't make it as far as either men.

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