Left Wing Offs Hillary

In the wake of the highly touted video of Hillary & Bill spoofing the final Sopranos episode, it seems the Left Wing of the Democratic Party wants to do in the Clinton campaign.

According to the Politico.com piece, Barack Obama wins Politico.com Straw Poll written by Ben Smith:

Obama got 29% of the 720 votes cast.
Edwards got 26%
Clinton 17%
Richardson 9%
Gore (as a write-in) got 8%

At some point the Clinton campaign is going to have to come to grips with the fact that she is not BILL Clinton who could charm the socks (or stockings) off any person or group, over any issue, at any time, in any place

Hillary is a good politician. Bill was a legendary politician. Whether you liked him or not he and Reagan were about as good as anyone in our lifetimes.

These straw polls have no meaning other than to indicate which campaign did a good job of organizing the attendees. With only 720 people voting, it is possible that the Clintonistas believed she had enough institutional support to do well. Instead only 122 people voted for her - the other nearly 600 voted for someone else.

This of course does not mean the Clinton campaign is in trouble. It does tend to indicate a level of distrust - probably over Iraq - of Sen. Clinton by the Democratic Party's hardest core, and most likely voters.