It's time for the media to admit that Hillary Clinton is popular

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47. All three major declared Democrats are popular

Some have better name recognition than others, but even right wing people who scream and run in terror at the word "socialist" find Bernie Sanders actually to be a likeable guy with positions they don't find abhorrent.

Hillary is very likeable in person, but she doesn't suffer fools lightly, and she knows full well that she is the favorite target of both the right wing propaganda machine and the tabloids that pass for MSM. Howard Dean is right when he says she doesn't grant them much access because she knows in advance what they will write, no matter what she says, so why waste her time? Roger Ailes said back when Fox Noise was founded, "we have an agenda." That "agenda" has spread to most of the American media, and no one is keeping it a secret.

O'Malley is new to the national scene, but he also has a solid record to stand on, and is likeable to boot.

NONE of the three Democrats (and I include Sanders here) spout nonsense, and THIS is the major difference between ALL three of them and ALL of the Republican candidates, declared and undeclared. The press doesn't like this, even if it likes them. They are smart, cool, and have positions that, depending on your personal situation and point of view, will move the country forward to some degree, depending on how much resistance they get from Republican obstructionists. The Democratic candidates will have good numbers among those who agree with them, and these numbers will be in rough proportion to their name recognition until the primaries and debates start in earnest. They will not stay where they are now. Speculation to the contrary will, (anyone doubt me?) be useless and a waste of perfectly good breath.