On-line polls are unscientific, but they do measure something, at least -- what online activist types think about various issues or politicians.
I chanced upon townhall.com today, following a link that was somewhat work-related, and found they had a presidential poll up.
I voted for Frist (twice, once at work, once at home), because he surely rates way low on the pol-you'd-want-to-have-a-beer-with thing that the corporate media is so fond of, and is otherwise the weakest credible GOP candidate for 2008.
Even with my support, Frist rates at 0 percent on the poll, which had a remarkable 194,000-plus respondents.
The townhall crowd has its own preferences, and the universally acknowledged strongest candidate -- McCain -- is not one of them. In fact, he's tied with Santorum and Giuliani at 1 percent.
The two big winners, below.
The townhall wingnuts really like dumb-jock George Allen (who may not even win re-election this year), and Mormon flip-flopper Mitt Romney (who decided to not risk a losing re-election campaign so close to 2008).
So far, Allen has 56 percent and Romney 39 percent. In third place is Newt Gingrich, with a measly 2 percent.
Obviously, the Allen and Romney campaigns have been freeping this poll. But the numbers are large -- 194,355 at last count -- and it seems that you can't vote twice from the same computer, so that's a lot of organized freeping.
All I can say is, bring it on. The prospect of a bloody GOP primary, with the wingnuts lining behind stone-stupid Allen and/or Romney of Massachusetts, and McCain saying wacky things to try to win over the base, is delicious schadenfreude for Democrats.