Republicans are More Democratic
Filed under: US Elections
An AP-Yahoo! poll shows that Republicans are currently more "democratic" than Democrats. Republicans have five different candidates under active consideration, while Democrats have only three and have nearly made up their mind on one of them (the one who, in Iowa, is currently viewed as least honest and forthright) even though not a single primary has yet been contested. Among the Republicans are two governors and the mayor of the nation's largest city, so three out of five have top-level elected executive experience. Not one of the Democrats is so qualified. A candidate without such experience (including the vice presidency) has not been elected president since JFK in 1960, and JFK won by one of the narrowest margins in history, failed to get a majority of the popular vote and didn't finish his term (see any JFKs in the Democratic field?). Herbert Hoover (1928) is the last civilian man to get a majority of the popular vote and then serve a complete term without having such credentials (there was also Eisenhower, the famous general from World War II). He was a Republican (so was Ike).