McCain-Rice Ticket Beats Clinton-Obama?

Polls are frustrating things. When they go your way, you want to believe them. When they don't, it's easy to dismiss them. But I have trouble believing this one. First, it was a very small sampling of people. But secondly, and most importantly, how could John McCain's pick of Condi Rice as VP be seen by average New Yorkers as a better idea than a Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama ticket?

John McCain is closely aligned with the Bush Administration. Condoleezza Rice is part of the Bush Administration, and has been a largely ineffective Secretary of State. I know there is a lot of hand-wringing that this election is going to be close. I even heard Rachel Maddow (one of my favorite pundits) predict a McCain victory today on the radio. In order to believe that, we'd have to believe that the tremendous Democratic turnout, and anemic Republican turnout in the primaries is somehow going to be reversed. I just don't buy it.

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Poll: McCain-Rice ticket wins in New York

A Republican ticket featuring John McCain and Condoleezza Rice could be a winner in the Democratic stronghold of New York, a poll suggests.

The Marist College-WNBC poll indicates a ticket featuring the Arizona senator and the U.S. secretary of state would upend a Democratic presidential ticket of Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois by 3 points, 49 percent to 46 percent, and an Obama-Clinton ticket by 5 points, 49 percent to 44 percent, the college said in a news release. . .

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