A 70 percent favorability rating?!?
That's manna for any politician, and that's what Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley has among Alabama voters, according to a poll published in today's Mobile Register. The poll also found Baxley with a 14-percentage-point lead over former Gov. Don Siegelman in a hypothetical Democratic gubernatorial primary.
The poll shows Siegelman faces an uphill battle if he hopes to recover politically from his criminal indictment last year and the uncertainty that still swirls around him due to a continuing criminal investigation in Montgomery. The public perception of Siegelman, rightly or not, is that he oversaw an administration chock-full of scandal and underhanded activities, and television attack ads would shred him in a general-election race.
As I've said before, Democrats would be wise to nominate Baxley in 2006. More polls like the one published today might make that outcome inevitable.
The poll shows Siegelman faces an uphill battle if he hopes to recover politically from his criminal indictment last year and the uncertainty that still swirls around him due to a continuing criminal investigation in Montgomery. The public perception of Siegelman, rightly or not, is that he oversaw an administration chock-full of scandal and underhanded activities, and television attack ads would shred him in a general-election race.
As I've said before, Democrats would be wise to nominate Baxley in 2006. More polls like the one published today might make that outcome inevitable.
posted by Alabamian at 6:30 PM
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