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By Harold Meyerson | Wednesday, January 2, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…Time was when the Democratic presidential field would extend from the hawkish Henry Jackson to the dovish George McGovern, neither of whom could count on the other’s Democratic supporters in a race against the Republican. These days, the differences dividing the Democrats are far narrower, and the Democrat who wins the party’s nod will command nearly consensual Democratic support. The same cannot be said for the Republicans.

Indeed, half of the Democrats polled in November by NBC and the Wall Street Journal said that they could support either Hillary Clinton or Obama “with enthusiasm”; 36 percent said that of Edwards. Among Republicans, however, only Mitt Romney, at 35 percent, approached the Edwards level of enthusiasm; and the rest of the major GOP candidates lagged far behind….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/01/AR2008010101300_pf.html