Daily Kos fantasy straw poll 2008. Gore 3255...1.29pm

[dogindia]

http://www.dailykos.com/poll/1148396397_RcAkIUdC

[Peace Patriot]

1. Gore/Kerry '08. The Restoration ticket.

Restoration of our right to vote.

Restoration of the sovereignty of the people.

Restoration of democracy.

Restoration of the winners of the 2000 and 2004 elections--Gore, provably; Kerry, by overwhelming inference of the available evidence, in highly non-transparent conditions (brought about by Tom Delay and Bob Ney with the "Hack America's Vote Act" of 2002).

Restoration of hope.

Restoration of the reputation of the United States of America in the world.

Restoration of order.

Restoration of justice.

And I think the Repukes would piss in their pants at this ticket. No way it could lose.

Can you just imagine the celebration when we do? The whole country--the whole world--will stand up and cheer!

WE. UNDID. THE. STOLEN. ELECTIONS!!!

[ladjf]

6. Can we please stop wasting time on Kerry. He's done everywhere

except among a few dozen DU posters. Look at the KOS results, 0%.


Flame away you loyal Kerry supporters.

[Peace Patriot]

9. I was a Dennis Kucinich supporter--who switched to Dean on the basis

of electability. I hated Kerry as a candidate. So you can't tag me with that. (I voted for him, though, to oust Bush. Voted for Gore, too--though I had a big objection to him, too--NAFTA.)

People don't seem to understand what I'm saying. I'm saying that a Gore-Kerry '08 ticket transcends normal politics. It is a matter of JUSTICE.

Politically, I would be a Feingold supporter--or Conyers, or Boxer. And I won't be at all sorry if Feingold were to be nominated, for either spot. But that's a whole new ballgame, if you know what I mean. He has no national base. He hasn't run for or won national office, as Gore and Kerry have. And a Feingold campaign is not a matter of rightfulness, of lawfulness and justice--and of vindication--as it is with Gore/Kerry.

I think Gore/Kerry '08 has a magical ring. It gets that "Oh, ye-e-e-e-es!" response from people. Whereas, most people don't yet know who Feingold is. It's uphill for Feingold--with the handicap of the Bushite-controlled voting machines. I think a Gore/Kerry ticket would blow the voting machines away. I think we'd have the biggest blowout victory in history, DESPITE the machines--and that it would be the beginning of a great American reform movement.

That's all I'm saying. If someone proposed Kerry to me as the candidate--Kerry alone--I would be very opposed. If someone proposed Kerry/Gore, I would be opposed. But Gore/Kerry puts their elections as president, their experience of the executive branch, and their talents in the right order.

Gore alone? Yes. I could be enthusiastic about Gore. Gore/Feingold. Of course. Feingold alone, yes.

But it was Kerry who was ELECTED. And Gore before him. That's my point. And I think that particular combination would have huge cache with the American people--BECAUSE it is a RESTORATION.

[Imalittleteapot]

2. Feingold #2 - VP works for me.

[ladjf]

7. That's the ticket.

[Dunvegan]

3. ...and in a landslide...

[Peace Patriot]

10. Boy, those 8 votes for Dodd give me the willies. Don't they KNOW

that Chris Dodd engineered the "Hack America's Vote Act," along with the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney?

Chris Dodd is, more than anyone, responsible for the utter destruction of the US election system--for Bushite corporations now 'counting' all our votes with "TRADE, SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls. He's the one! He's the highly corrupt Democrat who HELPED ENGINEER it!

He's Bilderberg, and one bad dude.

[IndyOp]

4. Links to polls & results...

Link for the straw poll with candidates who have expressed interest in running.
<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/23/11956/4280>

Results as of 1:46 -
Feingold 46%
Clark 15%
Edwards 7%
Richardson 1%
Kerry 1%


Link for the fantasy polls: <http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/23/11546/0689>

Here are the top vote-getters in the fantasy poll (as of 1:42)
Al Gore 3509 votes - 69 %
Russ Feingold 799 votes - 15 %
Wesley Clark 269 votes - 5 %
Mark Warner 168 votes - 3 %
John Edwards 103 votes - 1 %
John Kerry 35 votes - 0 %
Hillary Clinton 27 votes - 0 %
Joe Biden 19 votes - 0 %

[HamdenRice]

5. The poll is invalid because they did not include frontrunner

Joe Lieberman. If his name had been listed, Joementum would have overwhelmed the other less charismatic Democratic leaders listed.













:sarcasm:

[krkaufman]

8. Instant Runoff Voting - IRV

Who can talk to kos to get him to add IRV as a polling mechanism. If we ever want Instant Runoff Voting to takeoff, it needs to become internalized in the public consciousness through everyday use. Ditto goes for DU polls. What needs to be done to enable IRV polls?

[dogindia]

11. as of about 8:30 pm

Who do you support in 2008?

Joe Biden 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Tom Vilsack 0%
Hillary Clinton 0%

Al Gore 68%

Mark Warner 3%
Tom Daschlle 0%
Russ Feingold 15%
John Kerry 0%
John Edwards 2%
Bill Richardson 0%
Wesley Clark 5%
Evan Bayh 0%
No Freakin' Clue 0%
Other 0%

Votes: 9431