straw poll #235235141461

[LSK]

Poll question: straw poll #235235141461

You know the drill.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Present

Until someone comes out with full, unashamed support for my equal rights, I can not in good conscience support any candidate in the primary.

[Flabbergasted]

2. Kick to view later...

[quinnox]

3. John Edwards

This will be a great story if he wins now, and how can republicans attack him with his wife ill? It would look really low.

[iamjoy]

8. They Will Attack Him, And Successfully

How can Republicans attack him, you ask? That's easy - they're Republicans - enough said.

It will be the Right Wing Media, not the candidates. Mitt Romney - his wife has MS and I don't think he's that low. Guiliani is low enough, but I think he's too smart to throw stones and criticize anyone's family values. McCain, maybe, but as a cancer survivor too, he may just see it as bad karma. Besides, McCain has learned to traingulate so well in the past 8 years, he knows it will look really low.

What will be the nature of the attack? They will say John Edwards is callous and selfish and not devoted to his family for running when "his poor wife is dying." As long as Mrs. Edwards is healthy enough and strong enough to campaign, such criticisms will be easy to deflect. They will accuse the Edwards of exploiting her illness for political gain.

Never underestimate how low the Republicans will go to hold on to power.

[tkmorris]

19. So what?

As you said, they are Republicans. They will attack any candidate we nominate, like wild wolverines. There is no reason I see to assume that the attacks will work more against Edwards than they will against anyone else.

[Czolgosz]

26. Don't think Romney's that low? Romney has the swiftboat team on board - there is no depth he won't

sink to in order to get the Repub nomination. Expect the nastiest primary campaign in history against Giuliani, and it will not come directly from Romney (Romney may even publicly disapprove of it), but it will be from Romney supporters on Romney's behalf with Romney's quite blessing.

[Jai4WKC08]

4. Clark!

Not running yet, but he will be.

[Flabbergasted]

5. hmmm

[LSK]

6. is this the 1st poll where someone actually is challenging Gore?

Who is not even running..

[Dinger]

7. I Respect Them ALL, But For Me, It's Gotta Be Clark

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[bigwillq]

9. Gore

if he's running.

Otherwise, DK baby! :bounce:b

[flaminbats]

10. Mike Gravel...

you've got two candidates who are not running, and left one out who is running. The only thing I think this poll measures is the support Gore would have at DU if he ran in the primaries.

[Greyhound]

27. I like him but he has two problems for me. 1. Too old 2. His tax proposal is

impractical and does nothing to address the primary issue of the lower wage earners paying far too great a portion of their income to support a system that doesn't support them.

[DesertRat]

11. Gore always wins these DU polls

:)

[TSIAS]

12. Obama (nt)

[nedbal]

13. Kick

[mnhtnbb]

14. Edwards, because he is running. Al, I love 'ya, but I can't wait forever.

[AshevilleGuy]

15. Is this who we want, or who we think will win? n/t

[Flabbergasted]

16. I'm actually happily surprised that Hillary is more or less last.

[snowbear]

20. Ah, she didn't do that bad.. Out of 116 votes so far, she received 8...

... And then you have to consider that out of those eight.. .. 4 were likely freepers... then... ah...

.. that leaves us with..

..er..

Huh. I guess you're right.. she didn't do good AT ALL.

[Flabbergasted]

24. LOL

[mnhtnbb]

17. Hillary's going to take her money and open a home-based cookie business.

[The Count]

18. Clark. If not running, any non-IWR sponsor/voter who is in the race

[Clark2008]

23. Isn't it sad that there's not that many?

[The Count]

25. Considering that the war is THE issue, it's mind-boggling!

I am sure GOP can't wait to highlight our warmonger potential candidate support for war thus taking it off the table as difference between the parties....It's the one issue they can't surpass, and we can't field a strong, genuine anti-war candidate!

[Apollo11]

21. Gore is the best person for the job -- period.

Let's all find ways to show our support for Al Gore! :patriot:

Read Al's blog: http://blog.algore.com

Get ready for Live Earth on 7/7/07: www.liveearth.org

Sign the petitions at www.algore.org and www.draftgore.com

:kick:

[Clark2008]

22. Pretty ironic that the favorites aren't even in the race.

Wow.