Zogby Predicts: No Obama, No Clinton.

Pollster John Zogby was a guest yesterday on the Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network show "Conversations With Kathleen Dunn", primarily to talk about the poll released by his company recently, showing Nader at 5%.  However, Zogby also made a bold prediction, much to the astonishment of Dunn:

Zogby predicted that neither Obama nor Clinton would end up being the Democratic nominee coming out of the convention.  Since neither seems likely to win outright based on pledged and super delegate support, Zogby predicted that "party elders" would gather in Denver (he mentioned people like Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi, etc., and danced around the idea of Gore being present, because Gore, he noted, might benefit from the outcome of such a meeting) and ultimately submit a compromise candidate for the Convention to nominate.

Certainly it's an intriguing idea, and it surprised the heck out of Dunn, and Dunn's following guest, Rachel Sklar, the Media and Special Projects Editor for HuffPo.  Not surprisingly, Sklar dismissed the prediction as pure fantasy.

Maybe, maybe.

The podcast is here, at the 9:00 am timeslot.

Cross-posted at MyDD.