Reply #97: Wrong about Fox (and just about everything else)

[Jai4WKC08]

Something like 28% of Fox viewers are self-defined Democrats. I'd guess about half of the rest are independents or moderate Republicans. They can be convinced to vote for Democrats. Or at least, we'd better hope so.

It's true that Clark doesn't have a lot of name recognition. Certainly nothing like Kerry. But a lot of people know him as "that general on Fox (or CNN, from 2001 to 03)." Name recognition counts, but it's not everything. Believe it or not, not many Americans had heard of Kerry before he won Iowa in '04. 'Course, if you think the '08 primaries will be determined by current name recognition, it'll be Hillary Clinton and we might as well all give up.

I've already discussed Clark's other-than-military qualifications up thread. I will not sink to the level of belittling Kerry's resume or record. I respect him too much. And besides, Democrats should not attack other Democrats.

I wish I couldn't say it, but the right wing has been attacking Clark since he first entered politics. It has accellerated since about January, because of all he's doing to promote '06 candidates. He is not being ignored.

As for Clark going "un listened to and unwatched," all I can say is that his Saturday radio address got greater media coverage than I've seen any Democrat get in a damn long time, for anything (except probably Fiengold's censure motion). His "path to nowhere" soundbyte is getting a lot of play. Even ran as a scroll on CNN most of yesterday. Most voters will never remember, if they even noticed, who said it. But the words will stick, because they're true. And that will help Democrats win in November. And at this point, that's all that really matters.