2008 - McCain trounces Hillary?!

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Arizona Senator John McCain would overwhelmingly defeat New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a theoretical 2008 presidential match-up, a new Zogby America poll reveals. [...]

The survey finds that both senators far outdistance their nearest competition for their parties’ nominations—but in a head- to-head match-up, the Arizona Republican bests the New York Democrat by 19 points, leading her 54% to 35%. McCain would also defeat Massachusetts Senator—and former Democratic presidential candidate—John Kerry by a full 20 points, 55% to 35%.

McCain has majority support in every single geographic region of the country. But more telling may be the fact that, even in the states carried by Kerry in 2004, McCain comes out comfortably on top—leading Clinton by 49 to 38% and Kerry by 50% to 40%. Among the states carried by President Bush, the margin is even wider, giving McCain a 58% to 33% lead over Clinton and 59% to 32% lead over Kerry. . . .

Ask me about the 2008 election in 2007, please. Right now I'm much more concerned about what the state of the world is likely to be in 2007. Will we be in the middle of World War III, with the flower of America dying on Flanders' Fields?

The _present_ _day_ performance of a Congressman and/or Senator should be the topic of genuine 'news' in the present day; not idle speculations of whom might be the entries in a horse-race scheduled to take place three years from now, propped up by public-opinion polls that mean nothing.

'News' stories like these are not news at all; they are spurious distractions. The people of America, and of the world for that matter, need and expect more from their journalists. Get out there and find the REAL stories. Quit wasting trees and electrons until you have one.