Democrats still don't get it

"Rasmussen reports that 50% of Americans believe that Richard Clarke made his accusations to help John Kerry's campaign or to sell his book," writes Hindrocket at Power Line. "Only 39% say he was merely a concerned citizen telling the truth about what he saw."

39% = Hardcore anti-Bush crowd.

50% = Hardcore pro-Bush types plus another 10% or so undecideds who weren't buying Clarke's bill of goods.

11% = Remnants of the mushy middle, aka the "swing voters" we were talking about yesterday.

As we said then, media CW has it all wrong. Aside from that clueless 11%, public opinion is not so easily jerked around by the Bush administration's or anyone else's attack machine.

Another interesting tidbit: 63% of all voters believe Saddam Hussein was a terrorist, while only 26% say he was not. Continues Hindrocket:

This explains, I suspect, why the Democrats' feverish efforts to use the Iraq war to discredit the administration haven't succeeded. If you think Saddam was a terrorist, then most of what the Democrats have to say appears wrong or irrelevant. It's hard to make a lot of headway with the theory that Iraq was a distraction from the war on terror when 63% of voters consider Saddam a terrorist.

We love the sound of that clause: "most of what the Democrats have to say appears wrong or irrelevant."