University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin has an excellent new post up analyzing new favorability data on the 2008 presidential contenders. The coolest graph illustrates just how unpopular John Kerry is. Kerry’s rating of 22% favorable/48% unfavorable is far worse than anyone else in the poll. To give you a sense of how unpopular Kerry is, Tom DeLay’s favorability rating back in April (months after his indictment) was 23% favorable/49% unfavorable. It’s more than a little ironic that Kerry, who says President Bush “lives in a state of denial,” thinks he can win the presidency with numbers like that.