Bob Barr delivers some sobering news:

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich called Sean Hannity's radio show last week to announce glibly that in his view U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination had plummeted from 80 percent to 50 percent based on her performance in the most recent "debate" between the party's candidates. Gingrich's views clearly were not based on scientific analysis.
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GOP pundits who try simplistically to weaken Clinton by pointing to one night's performance in a debate few American voters actually watched, might be better advised instead to pay closer attention to a recent Newsweek poll indicating that Hillary Clinton enjoys more support among voters in so-called "Red States" (that went for President Bush in '04) than Giuliani enjoys among "Blue State" voters (those that went for John Kerry in '04).