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Mon Jan-14-08 02:16 PM
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Poll question: Seriously, now: Who would you like to see nominated if we had a "brokered convention" |
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That is, if we went with somebody other than this year's primary candidates?
I'll lay out a few, you can suggest some others:
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:17 PM
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1. As a Salt Laker, I had to vote for Rocky Anderson. :) |
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:27 PM
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9. Actually I have only heard him once |
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and he sounded very impressive. Thanks for the name - I was just trying to think of who it was on that NPR interview a while back who impressed me!
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:18 PM
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:bounce:
That'd kick ass!
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:19 PM
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:19 PM
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4. Perhaps: But I was asking people to chose from non-primary candidates |
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No offense to your man intended.
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:20 PM
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5. well, the loophole is most Americans didn't know he was running... n/t |
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:31 PM
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11. Well, I don't know enough about your mom to jump on board |
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:39 PM
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14. Joe Biden, but only if the Democrats want to win this election |
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Which I'm now convinced they don't. They're more interested in playing games and making statements with weaker candidates. I think the Party is hopelessly doom to run in circles chasing its tail.
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:52 PM
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19. The big problem Biden would face would be |
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Why should the party nominate somebody who demonstrated no support at all in the primaries?
I mean, nobody voted for him in Iowa whatsoever.
Don't you see that as a problem?
(Don't get me wrong, I'd back him if nominated, just trying to sound you out a bit more on this).
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:43 PM
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33. correction - low support in NH and IA |
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To me it depends on what happens with the current campaigns and events in the big wide world.
If some international shit hits the fan, McCain will look good to people who pick superficially or buy the GOP = better on terror/war argument.
The remaining 4 Dems look awfully weak on security and foreign affairs to me. That was the #1 reason I supported Biden - credibility across the spectrum (have heard so many independents and moderate Republicans say they would vote for him) + ability to work with GOP in Congress (you're fooling yourself if you think the Dems will control the next 8 years with a large margin) + realistic plan to get us out of Iraq. And until we're out of Iraq in a credible way, none of the domestic dreams of the other candidates are going to happen.
I'm more worried about getting the GOP out, but the American Idol contest seems to have won out.
OK, enough wallowing in my personal disappointment. But I'll be sporting "Don't blame me - I supported Biden" gear soon.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:43 PM
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:35 PM
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13. I second that- Al Gore - no question. Still my # 1 choice above all. |
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Mon Jan-14-08 04:06 PM
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Now I think we need him more than ever. I think he could bring not only the party together, but the country and the world as well. We need change and I think Gore would be the best agent of that change, particularly in revolutionizing how we approach the environment and the oil economy, as well as helping to bring about a new wave of green-based jobs.
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:20 PM
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7. Yikes. My mom. There's a scary thought. |
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Yeah, she's a liberal dem, a brilliant woman who speaks four languages fluently, but take it from me, you wouldn't want to see her as president.
Hey, where's Bernie?
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:25 PM
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8. Well, he's still an independent, so technically, we couldn't nominate him |
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Although some of us would gladly put that technicality aside. (Especially since the DLC'ers who wouldn't back him are already gonna vote for Bloomburg anyway and won't get punished for it, like they didn't get punished for backing HolyWar Joe in the fall of '06).
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:29 PM
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They will never vote for Kucinich.
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:43 PM
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15. Again, I was talking about candidates that weren't running in the primaries. |
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Edwards would be a sure winner, which is why the media and the Beltway Dems don't want him.
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:49 PM
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16. Brokered conventions have turned to candidates, not to non-candidates |
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even to candidates that have dropped out. Denver Convention will never turn to an untested politician, one that has not gone through the process.
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:50 PM
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17. Well, if it did, then among those who haven't gone the primary route this year. |
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who would you consider?
(I'm not knocking Edwards, just trying to get an answer from you that's within the parameters of the thread intro).
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:15 PM
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He went to bat for us on the Alito filibuster and on troop withdrawal deadlines.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:22 PM
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27. OK. Thanks for elaborating. |
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:51 PM
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18. You've lost control of your poll! |
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This is 1968 all over again! x(
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:12 PM
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24. I'll have to send the Chicago P.D. in here to "preserve disorder", then |
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Edited on Mon Jan-14-08 03:27 PM by Ken Burch
As Hizzoner woulda done. :sarcasm:
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:34 PM
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:55 PM
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20. Seriously, we have our first chance to nominate a left wing movement activist |
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Obama. That's who I want.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:08 PM
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23. He'd be an improvement on Bush, but if you think Obama is still on the left |
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You are an optimist, my friend.
Nowadays, he's a safe bland housebroken moderate.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:18 PM
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26. If you believe everything you read on the internet |
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:56 PM
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21. Anyone who does not think it wiould be Obama or Clinton is mistaken |
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Mon Jan-14-08 02:59 PM
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22. Well, they way they're shredding each other right now, they could BOTH get knocked out. |
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It's hard to see them raising hands in the "unity" gesture at Denver. A bit too much blood is being spilled at the moment.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:48 PM
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35. Thank God DU is not a microscosm of the party. |
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Mon Jan-14-08 04:18 PM
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42. I'm not basing that on what I read on DU. I'm basing that on what they're saying about each other |
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And how the MSM is playing it.
They could easily destroy each other between now and Denver. Which wouldn't be a good thing, and which would mean we'd have to cast both of them aside and come up with somebody better so we weren't stuck with an "inevitable loser" like in '68, '84 or '04.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:24 PM
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28. When you say "your mom," do you mean MY mom? |
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Edited on Mon Jan-14-08 03:26 PM by rucky
or your mom?
And if you mean every voter's mom who voted "your mom," wouldn't that split the vote?
Maybe we should choose one person's mother and get behind her.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:30 PM
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30. I was thinking that each of them could go to Denver as "favorite mom" candidates |
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:25 PM
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Failing that, I'd take Biden or Richardson.
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Mon Jan-14-08 03:38 PM
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32. Why isn't Al Gore here? He's been the runaway favorite in every previous discussion |
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of a brokered convention.
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Mon Jan-14-08 04:00 PM
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36. Because this thread is in response to the OTHER "brokered convention" thread |
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Where the choices were AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, and oh yeah, AL.
I'd be glad to see AL nominated this year, but I thought that a poll offering other options should be out there as well.
OK?
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Mon Jan-14-08 04:18 PM
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41. Well, wouldn't it make more sense to have a poll |
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including both Al and the other options?
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Mon Jan-14-08 04:13 PM
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Mon Jan-14-08 04:16 PM
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40. I'd be down with that. |
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Mon Jan-14-08 04:15 PM
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He has the most experience and is intelligent enough.
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Mon Jan-14-08 05:04 PM
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43. Looks like Biden is on a roll n/t |
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