HRC Alert!

I know that the 2008 presidential elections aren't for a while yet, and I know that I am just getting started blogging again, but I couldn't resist posting about a recent column in the Boston Herald. My beautiful niece Evie, who happens to be getting married in September, is going to have some bad nights after reading this, but it is for her own good.

Apparently, the junior senator from New York doesn't enjoy a positive following in New Hampshire, a bellwether state in the primaries.

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he's never seen anything like it.

Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.

No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups.

But these weren't Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren't even independents.

These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified themselves as likely voters in the pivotal state's Democratic primary. And, behind closed doors, this is what nearly half of them are saying.

This, of course is music to my ears, but not altogether surprising. I have heard on many occasions that Madam Hillary is not as popular with the democratic party as the mainstream media would have you believe. People often tell me that President Bush is too polarizing, but from everything I can dig up, Hillary has George beat 10 fold. Here is more:

"I was amazed", says Bennett. "I thought there might be some negatives, but I didn't know it would be as strong as this. It's stunning, the similarities between the Republicans and the Democrats, the comments they have about her."

Bennett runs American Research Group Inc., a highly regarded, independent polling company based in Manchester, N.H. He's been conducting voter surveys there since 1976. The polls are financed by subscribers and corporate sponsors.

His conclusion? "Forty-five percent of the Democrats are just as negative about her as Republicans are. More Republicans dislike her, but the Democrats dislike her in the same way."

Read the whole thing. Let's pray the hits keep on coming.