Primary Poll: Who did you initially support in the 2008 Primary Process?

[Warren DeMontague]

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	John Edwards
	17 (40%)
	Joe Biden
	1 (2%)
	Barack Obama
	13 (31%)
	Dennis Kucinich
	7 (17%)
	Hillary Clinton
	3 (7%)
	Mike Gravel
	1 (2%)
	Bill Richardson
	0 (0%)
	Chris Dodd
	0 (0%)
	3 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[bkkyosemite]

1. I voted for Obama because he was going to get us change.

Now I'm voting for Bernie because although Obama got some change he did not get the changes for the middle class that I wanted or that he promised. Bernie is for what I want.

[yeoman6987]

28. I voted for Hillary but voted for Obama in the general.

I have always liked her warts and all. Warts is not about Hillary at all.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Obama--now Bernie Sanders.

[wyldwolf]

3. Bill Richardson

[olddots]

4. ooops

I voted for Jesse Jackson too ......and I'mproud of it .

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Obama. nt

[Bjornsdotter]

6. Passed because my progression went like this

Edwards
Hillary
Obama

[zappaman]

7. Edwards.

My bad.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Hey, at least you didnt change your username to "Edwardsrocks" or something

Imagine being stuck with something along those lines.

I think situations like that people should be able to petition admin for some leeway on switching.

[hifiguy]

9. Kucinich. When he bowed out and

suggested his supporters go to Obama I was impressed. The Kennedy endorsements sealed the deal for me. Never once even considered HRC.

[Feeling the Bern]

14. Same

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. I forgot for a moment -- --

I was a Kuch supporter, then Edwards and then O when I grew disgusted with Clinton's tactics. I was never a big fan of his, but he was better than Clinton to me at that point.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Yeah I started out on Kooch too.

[rocktivity]

11. My original '08 dream ticket was Wesley Clark/John Edwards

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But you're asking about the actual primary...

I preferred Obama because of Hillary's DLC ties, but was fully prepared to back her once his pipe dream of a campaign came to a humiliating end no later than the first Super Tuesday. He wasn't expected to win my state's primary -- and didn't -- but I voted for him because I decided it would probably be as close as I would ever come to voting for a black presidential candidate!


rocktivity

[Mike__M]

12. I'll admit I initially supported

Sen. Mike "Who-are-we-planning-to-nuke" Gravel, until he dropped out, then Kucinich for a week or two until he dropped out, then Obama.
I believed and resented the inevitability argument at the beginning, and hoped Edwards could push things leftward.
Gravel was a true fringe candidate, who got in to push his pet issue, but he was shouting things on the debate stage that needed to be shouted, and I wanted to see him up there poking the establishment for as long as possible.

[karynnj]

16. John Kerry until he opted not to run

Then Obama after ruling everyone else out.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. I didnt include kerry because iirc he was never an actual declared candidate, just FWIW

Thanks for your answer, btw.

[karynnj]

18. Absolutely correct, but given that I spent hours in DU JK and still think he was the finest

leader and statesman of his generation - in spite of never becoming President , I had to list him.

In retrospect had he continued with a run, history would have changed -- and probably not with him winning. Had he stayed in he would have split the anti Hillary vote with Obama, who I think would still have run - and I suspect that could have led to a HRC win or no one getting enough delegates.

Had he run, he could not have run for re-election and there is no way that Clinton would have put him in her government - as Obama did her.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. I actually went back and looked at my posts, in response to general allegations in GDP that

Sanders supporters were being hypocritical on Hillary's IWR vote.

I said plainly and early on that i felt we needed to run someone who could articulate a moral argument against that war without the baggage of having voted for it. That, to my mind, disqualified kerry, edwards and Hillary at the time. So at least ive been consistent.

I have great respect for John Kerry, mind you, and i did support him in the '04 primaries, but in retrospect i think we may have done better with someone who hadnt voted for the iwr. As it was, i wish he had fought back harder amd sooner against corsi and the swift boat shit. That was a tactical error imho.

But still have scads of respect for the man.

[karynnj]

21. In 2004, I wanted either Dean or Kerry -- then chose Kerry

I don't think that anyone could have done better than Kerry did in 2004. Remember, Bush was at about 60 percent in December 2003. No one else could have completely blown Bush away in that first foreign policy debate.

As to the war vote, I had followed both of them from 2002 on. Dean supported at least as aggressive a position on Saddam as Kerry before the vote. He did say he would have voted for Biden/Lugar, but he did not have to vote. Not to mention, where Clinton and Edwards were fully behind the invasion, Kerry in January was saying not to rush to war and was labeled anti-war until the IWR vote became a litmus test mid 2003 - largely by the Dean campaign. Kerry's history and his comments made me comfortable that he was absolutely not a hawk. Having protested in DC and NYC with three preteen and teen daughters, I would not have supported him in the primary if I would have thought that he was a hawk.

Though a strong moral argument against the war could have worked in the Primary, the country was definitely not ready for that. In fact, Kerry DID state a strong moral argument - though many missed it. Every day, in his standard speech he said that Bush mislead us into war by not exhausting the diplomacy as he promised - thus it was not a war of last resort. I know people who that greatly angered because it meant that the war the US was fighting was not a just war. (My Catholic mom, a wing voter, was absolutely furious because of that.) She voted for Obama in 2008. In his case, he was not giving a moral case, but said it was "a dumb war" and that it was a blunder.

[Arugula Latte]

19. I voted Edwards, but really first I liked Obama, then I was worried about him being too

centrist (which turns out to be the case), so I went to Edwards, because he was talking about poverty and such, and then back to Obama once the crap hit the fan with Edwards. ... Never, ever Hillary, though.

[bigwillq]

22. Kucinich (nt)

[studyshare]

23. Hillary is Consistent -- No one ever likes her. nt

[John Poet]

24. John Edwards ==> Obama

[Odin2005]

25. I was an Obama supporter before it was cool!

[Motown_Johnny]

26. Back around Christmas of 2006 I told my friend that my dream ticket was

Obama/Richardson

He thought I was nuts.


(I like Biden too, but I didn't think 2 Senators on the same ticket was a great idea.)

[Recursion]

27. It's long past time for a bearded President again. Richardson.

I think I had switched to Edwards by Iowa, though.

[redwitch]

29. John Edwards

It was his Two Americas speech that resonated with me.

As I got to see and hear Barack Obama I was pleased and ultimately voted for him.

[brooklynite]

30. I started with Clinton and switched to Obama, when I became convinced he could win the GE

I would do the same with Sanders. So far, I haven't seen a solid argument.

[one_voice]

31. Obama. Loved him from the first..

time I saw him in '04.

I would have voted for our eventual Nominee. I wasn't here in '08. I was posting on Politico and none of the threads exist anymore..I looked.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. I was blown away by his keynote in '04 as well.

I think I started DU not long after the March for Womens Lives in DC. (2004) I was feeling particularly engaged.

[GoneOffShore]

32. In 2008 HRC was never on my radar or voting list.

She's been pandering to the right since she started.

[ms liberty]

33. I wanted Al Gore to run

When he didn't, I picked Obama. I still think he was the best choice of the group that ran. He's been a good president, although he has also disappointed me in some areas by not being as liberal/progressive as I wanted. Hillary was my last choice in 08, as she is now.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Yeah, Gore was far and away my very first choice both in '04 and '08.

Hell, I'd support him this year if he got in.