Democrats are appropriately alarmed by a new poll, which they conducted themselves, that indicates their popularity has taken a significant dive:

A poll on the political mood in the United States conducted by the Democratic Party has alarmed the party at its own loss of popularity. Conducted by the party-affiliated Democracy Corps, the poll indicated 43 percent of voters favored the Republican Party, while 38 percent had positive feelings about Democrats.

"Republicans weakened in this poll ... but it shows Democrats weakening more," said Stanley Greenberg, who served as President Clinton's pollster.

Greenberg told the Christian Science Monitor he attributes the slippage to voters' perceptions that Democrats have "no core set of convictions or point of view."

This really should not be a surprise. After all, this is a party who trots its leaders out to try and make the absurd case that the war in Iraq has nothing to do with the events of September 11th. It's hard to take any party that would conduct itself in this manner with a high degree of seriousness.

(HT: Powerline and Michelle Malkin)