Dems 52%, Reps 35%

Regular readers have seen the word landslide pretty often on this blog. Further fodder is in this story reporting a fresh AP national poll: The number of people calling themselves Democrats is up 7 points to 52 percent, while the Republicans are flat at 35 percent.

A lead of 17 points nationally – what does that mean to us in Florida? In South Florida? Landslide.

UPDATE: The above came from DailyKos.com. Then I rambled over to OpenLeft.com and found more landslide info, though not quite such a large margin on the D-R account, a hair under 10 percentage points. But also some thoughts on why this is happening. Aside from our superior message and aside from the absolute failure of the national Republican government, I mean.

It's the extended primary campaign, writes Matt Stoller. So maybe it wasn't a bad idea, after all, for our dingaling Republican governor and legislature to decide to move up the primary date, and for our dingaling Democrats to go along with it. It has made us all political actors for more months than usual, and the flurry of activity has brought more fence-sitters over to our D side.

But now that we see all the attention being paid to Pennsylvania for its primary in April -- and even Puerto Rico is getting some ink for its date in June -- maybe there should be a rush to be last. Yes, Vote Last! Our state can make the decision, in the end.

And, my friends, just in time, we're talking about a revote in Florida. So we could be both early and late in the same election year. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too.

Life is good.

Hispanic strategy looks promising

Here's good news for those of us using the Hispanic strategy for at least part of our electoral campaign planning: The NY Times last week reported a Pew Hispanic Center survey showing "a strong preference for the Democratic Party" among Hispanic voters.

This is a reversal of the Republicans' strong showing among Hispanics in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

Identified as strategic states are -- Guess who? -- Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. All were carried by George W. Bush with narrow margins in 2004.

Here's a link to the Pew Hispanic Center report itself.

Why we need to keep working hard

Fresh off the polling data from Gallup -- confirmation of what we've known for quite a while. The Democratic Party has a bunch of winning presidential candidates. The link to MYDD.