Should this forum now become: General Discussion: Election 2004?

[JCMach1]

What do you think?

[Mattforclark]

1. Yes.

[cheezus]

2. GD: *Presidential* Election 2004

there should also be a forum for the various other races

[JCMach1]

3. Or, should the discussion be broader and include other races

just a thought...

We need to also accomodate those discussions.

[rucky]

4. No, and here's why:

separating the GD forums made sense when there were 10 candidates. So the people who wanted to talk about the race go to one place & the people who want to talk about Bush go into the other.

Well Bush is in the race now. It would be way to artificial to try and separate world events & Bush-related antics from the GE at this point. And it may just hurt the level of discussion if we feel that we can't talk about Bush here because that's a GD topic or we can't talk about Kerry in GD because that's for the other forum.

[no name no slogan]

5. Respectfully, No.

John Kerry still needs 999 delegates for a first ballot endorsement in Boston. There are still 20 states who have not spoken.

There are still three major candidates in the race, contrary to what gets reported by the press.

Kerry's support is soft-- most of it is not "for" John Kerry necessarily, but "for" somebody who is "electable".

I encountered this last night at my caucus: Edwards was popular because he was "against" Kerry-- other than that, there was no overwhelming support.

Kerry's supporters were "for" Kerry because he was the frontrunner, and looks "electable".

OTOH, there were NO lukewarm Kucinich supporters. We stuck together, and still pulled a decent 21% in my precinct. DK also won several precincts in my city of Minneapolis-- some by large margins.

But don't expect to see that on TV any time soon.