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(He's as good as any of them, anyway.)

By Mark Kilmer Posted in 2008 — Comments (2) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and the rest of the sundry reindeer. Hillary's in, Obama's in, the trail lawyer is in, and Joe Biden has skipped the exploratory committee, entered the race, and is trashing his fellow Dems apace.

But do you recall… what of Chris Dodd?

I have been aware that many of you are counting on Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) to win next year's Presidential election and return this country to its former greatness, but… I'm kidding whom? Not even the folks at his hometown Hartford Courant view the Senate's Man of la Mancha – Dodd is a fluent speaker of Spanish -- as anything more than a badly told joke. John Zogby provides them with some fodder:

Read On…

When pollster John Zogby asked a group of 339 likely Democratic voters earlier this month whom they wanted for president in 2008, one or two mentioned Connecticut's senior senator.

One or 2 percent mentioned Christopher Dodd?

No. One or two people, Zogby said.

"I'm competing with the margin of error in most polls," Chris Dodd grinned as he described his underdog status recently to a New Hampshire audience.

He should be so lucky. The margin of error was 5.4 percentage points.

In the Zogby America poll, Dodd registered as a hyphen - a placeholder indicating he polled at less than 1 percent.

Even 2004 candidate Joe Lieberman, who is not running this year, got 2 percent of likely voters saying they favored him.

If only more people only knew of the "Waitress Sandwich": the tale of "Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd and an unsuspecting waitress at La Brasserie (a restaurant near Capitol Hill in Washington, DC)." (Read the link for more on that or use your imagination. Either method has pretty much the same effect.)

Well, Courant reporter David Lightman concludes his story with a candid look at his senior Senator's candidacy:

Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" last week rattled off front-runners in the Democratic field, noting they include the first African-American, first woman, first Latino and so on.

Then a picture of Dodd appeared over Stewart's shoulder. "I left out Sen. Christopher Dodd," he said. Stewart said nothing more, just stared straight ahead and got a big laugh.

Maybe it was Jay Leno, though, who summed up Dodd's current problems cracking the top 10.

"Dodd said over the past few weeks he's been having a conversation with the mirror about running," the comedian cracked. "The bad news? Today, the guy in the mirror came out in favor of Barack Obama."

Why is he doing this? It could be another legacy bit, like with Al Gore's daddy, the late Senator Albert Gore Sr., raising his brat to one day be President. (Spare me the violins. They've melted in this Scientific Consensus.) The late Senator Thomas Dodd (D-Connecticut) could well have had dreams of his baby boy in the White House. (An historical footnote [Wikipedia] tells us that daddy Dodd's first run for the U.S. Senate was a very unsuccessful challenge of Connecticut Republican Senator Prescott "Dynasty" Bush in 1956.)

This observation comes from Gary at the Ex-Donkey Blog:

Chris Dodd is Joe Biden without the stunning personality.

We can put Chris Dodd back on our shelf now, unless he says something super-stupid when he addresses the DNC Winter Meeting on Friday morning. Will his pal Ned be there for him?