Short post about the Presidential race

So Obama has the Democratic nomation all but locked up, and now the media are trying to hype an Obama / Clinton "dream ticket." While Clinton as his VP candidate would help Obama more quickly unite Democrats behind him, Clinton supporters are going to come around and support him eventually simply because he's infinitely better than McCain. The racists who woun't vote for Obama because he's black, such as many of the people in yesterday's West Virginia primary, probably wouldn't vote for him in the general election no matter who the VP candidate was. The best thing I can see possibly coming out of Clinton's refusal to admit defeat and drop out of the race is if she gets Obama to adopt some or all of her health care proposals, which is the one issue on which I greatly prefer Clinton to Obama. As for who Obama's VP choice should be, there are a ton of reasonable choices, one in particular that sounds promising is Ohio governor Ted Strickland.

Would Hillary lose to each of the major Republican candidates?

Today on Digg an article was posted with a new poll by Zogby suggesting that Hillary Clinton would lose to all the major Republican candidates if the election were held today.

From the article:

In the new survey, Clinton trailed Senator John McCain 42 percent to 38 percent, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani by 43 percent to 40 percent and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney by 43 percent to 40 percent.

She also lagged behind former Arkansas Republican governor Mike Huckabee by 44 to 39 percent, and former Senator Fred Thompson by 44 to 40 percent in hypothetical general election matchups.

So Hillary trails in each of the match-ups among those with an opinion, with the percentage she trails in each match-up ranging from 3 to 5 percent.

But I think the key number here is the percentage of undecideds for the various match-ups, which ranged from 16 to 20 percent.

With the anti-Bush, anti-Republican mood of the country as strong as it is, I would guess that the undecideds, if forced to choose (as they would have to if the election were actually held today), would overwhelmingly break for Hillary, giving her the election easily.

The article also states that Obama and Edward both have leads over every major Republican candidate among those with an opinion, but if does not state how big the margins are, or what percentage of respondents were undecided.