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keane
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| Gopher wrote: |
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| Ron Paul need not be nominated by Republicans to run for President or VP. |
Fantasyland.
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| Can we get back to Kucinich? |
ROFL. Get back to whatever you like, BLT. Kick and scream to your heart's content. She -- and neither of your fruitcakes -- will likely be the next president...
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What's fantasy, goober, is that you will ever post anything worth reading. Peak Goober was about a year ago. Peak asshole seems to still be ahead.
Time is short and what is likely to happen wasn't the issue in my post, despite your idiotic protestations, goober. I made note of an interesting event in politics: the unexpected victory of someone supposedly far off the presidential politics radar. I made no declarations of Kucinich as the next president, goober.
But it could still happen. The odds are about the same as you becoming a useful presence on these boards.
Take your straw dolls back to your schoolyard sandbox. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| But it could still happen. |
It could still happen that you'd get an original idea, but that isn't very likely to happen either. |
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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| But it could still happen. |
It could still happen that you'd get an original idea, but that isn't very likely to happen either. |
The the least mature over-50 person I've ever run across. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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I take that as a compliment. |
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stevemcgarrett
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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keane/EFLT wrote:
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| Interesting. Perhaps my dream ticket, the Unity Ticket, of Kucinich and Paul is a little more possible than any of us thought. |
Kucinich has about as much chance of winning the Democratic nomination as he has of getting his ears under a five-gallon hat.
Paul won't be anyone's VP because none of the candidates can trust him to tow the Party line.
Now I've got to go make myself a BLT. |
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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Paul won't be anyone's VP because none of the candidates can trust him to tow the Party line. |
Or even toe it, you genius, you.
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| Now I've got to go make myself a BLT. |
Best damned sandwich on the planet when made right. You're not utterly hopeless, it seems.
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keane
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| Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: |
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=249126
KUCINICH WINS DFA ONLINE POLL...
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Now that Dennis Kucinich has finished first in a major survey of Democratic activists, perhaps Democratic party bosses and their media acolytes will have to back off their efforts to marginalize him.
No, Kucinich's top-place finish in the Democracy for America online survey that attracted serious attention from major campaigns and drew more than 150,000 voters does not mean the anti-war congressman from Ohio is on a fast track to the nomination. But it does mean that Kucinich is displayed an ability to attract meaningful support from the party's activist base and that his "Democratic-wing-of-the-Democratic-Party" message has appeal.
Kucinich did not secure the 66-percent of the vote required to gain an official endorsement from DFA, the group founded by supporters of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid and their allies on the party's left flank. But he easily bested the other candidates and the unannounced "contender" who led in the early voting, former Vice President Al Gore.
The final totals were:
Kucinich 31.97% 49364
Al Gore 24.77% 38242
Former Senator John Edwards 15.6% 24078
Senator Barack Obama 13.86% 21403
Senator Hillary Clinton 4.21% 6504
Governor Bill Richardson 4.09% 6309
Other 2.05% 3171
Senator Christopher Dodd 1.56% 2415
Senator Joe Biden 1.12% 1723
Former Senator Mike Gravel 0.77% 1182
Kucinich beat the other candidates among voters from the first caucus state of Iowa and the first primary state of New Hampshire. He also won the early caucus state of Nevada...
...Nor is it any secret that the party and media bosses would prefer to drop Kucinich from the roster of Democratic contenders who must be invited to join debates and participate in major events such as the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner... Drexel University and moderator Tim Russert did everything he could during the course of that debate to read Kucinich out of the running.
But Kucinich's poll numbers in formal national and state surveys actually went up after the Drexel debate.
...with the DFA result, he can now point to an impressive finish in a test most of the major contenders took seriously. While Kucinich certainly campaigned hard to get votes in the DFA poll, Obama, Edwards, Richardson and Dodd made significant efforts -- by sending emails and cutting videos -- to encourage their backers to participate in the survey. As such, Kucinich's win is meaningful -- and it should become at least a bit more difficult to dismiss the congressman's win, and his candidacy. |
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