Another day another poll. Clinton 45% Obama 23% Edwards 13%. In short nothing much has changed. If you take a look at the most recent RCP poll list Clinton's spread is 34% to 48% but if you take out the Ras daily which looks like a an outlier it's 39% to 48%. Obama including Ras is 21% to 25%. In other words nationally Obama remains stuck in his low twenties groove exactly where he's been since he started. I diaried this a couple of days ago but in well over a hundred comments not a single anti Clinton posters chose to discuss this. But it's a huge elephant in the room and why any slippage she has experienced at the national lever has not gravitated to him seems a basic question about his viability.
Also today there was a great diary, pity it wasn't recc'd, about the potential for the "flight to quality" (ie. Clinton) when it gets down to the wire in IA and NH. This is a very plausible theory given the loyalty of Clinton cadres and the high ratings assigned to the importance of experience and competence by just about all the polls. Unfortunately this got to much dissing although there were some insightful contributions.
At some point it seems to me there has to be discussion of why Obama is stuck. Why the democratic electorate has made up his mind about him and this is going to involve ventilating some tough stuff like his perceived inexperience and his color. Cue Racist chants. I totally deplore racism of any kind, if he's the nominee, I'll vote for him of course, but it seems to me it may be one of the factors accounting for his relative immobility nationally. And no it's not name recognition most of the people in the country have a a fair idea that there's this guy Obama running for president. It's either that and/or perceived inexperience. Perhaps that the reason his cohorts were so touchy about Krugman's critique of the holes in his healthcare plan.
Anyway in the next day or two we need to speculate about why Obama is stuck at 24%.