The Cost Of A Political Fight

The Democratic Party and their candidates are showing signs of anguish and the polls prove the point. This protracted battle is never what they expected or wanted, opposed to their public comments to the contrary, this is much to their chagrin.

The Democratic candidates continue their assault on each other while McCain is now in a statistical dead heat with both Obama and Clinton in national polls. This is sure to get worse before it gets better, eventually there will be a loser and the party has a major load of work ahead just to bring everyone back to understand who is the opponent. If Obama loses, his supporters may not come back for years.

From AP-Ipsos poll:

Obama 46, Clinton 43 (unchanged from February).

Head-to-head matchups:

Obama 45, McCain 45

Clinton 48, McCain 45

Dates conducted: April 7-9. Error margin: 3.1 points.

Regarding Congressional races; Clinton's presence on the ticket could make it harder for Democrats in tight races, suggested Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report.

It is early, but a fair assumption to make that the coattail impact of the National Democratic candidate might not be as strong a factor in the races for the 118^th, 122^nd Assembly seats and the 48^th Senate district race either.