Presidential Power Rankings # 27

July 4, 2007

Democrats:

1. Hillary Clinton (1)
2. Barack Obama (2)
3. John Edwards (3)
4. Bill Richardson (5)
5. Al Gore (4)
6. Joe Biden (6)
7. Chris Dodd (7)
8. Dennis Kucinich (8)
9. Mike Gravel (9)
10. Wesley Clark (10)

The one change this week comes on the news that Al Gore III has been arrested on DUI and drug charges and considering this is his third offense with the law, he could potentially be looking at a pretty serious legal situation. I think that might make it even more unlikely that Al Gore would now mount a late campaign for President. Thus, Bill Richardson, who despite performing pretty poorly in debates on appearances on such shows as Meet the Press, moves up to number 4. It is worth noting, that in places like New Hampshire, Richardson is close on the heels of John Edwards and has raised almost as much money as the 2004 Vice Presidential nominee.


1. Mitt Romney (1)
2. Fred Thompson (2)
3. Rudy Giuliani (3)
4. John McCain (4)
5. Mike Huckabee (5)
6. Newt Gingrich (6)
7. Sam Brownback (7)
8. Tommy Thompson (8)
9. Duncan Hunter (9)
10. Tom Tancredo (10)

No changes, this week, although the McCain campaign death watch is now officially on. Rudy Giuliani won the second Quarter GOP fundraising prize and I suspect that before the summer is up, he will move up from the three spot to either two or one, as he, Fred Thompson, and Romney will probably play some musical chairs to an extent. For now though, polls out this week confirm that Romney is still leading, and by a decent margin in most of them, in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Until that changes, I find it hard to make a case to drop him out of the number one spot, despite my obvious personal biases.

Happy Fourth of July!