Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

[Rajiv]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

Your views are quite Mainstream -- if you talk to other people. However, they are not mainstream for mainstream media -- according to them you are a lunatic Liberal.

And yes, if we start thinking for ourselves, and value our own opinions and ideals, then we can get somebody sane into power.

Something as simple as a web survey, matching views to candidate positions, has opened up many eyes -- many people are reconsidering what they value - and hence who they may vote for.

As for this particular website, it was an eye opener for its creator as well -- a high school graduate, US Marine, stationed in Afghanistan, who was not a Kucinich supporter, but is now considering him. The latest figures from the website are below:



Over 57.5% of people completing this survey have a Kucinich match in first place. And this is from both Republican and Democratic candidates. So which candidate is most mainstream?

I have surveyed many blogs - right wing and left wing -- and all attest to the relative accuracy of the matches.

Below is the video of a speech given in February of 2002 -- that led many to ask that Kucinich throw his hat into the Presidential ring.



The text of the speech - A Prayer for America

[Finster]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

A skeptic going in, but it worked perfectly for me. Handed me Paul and Tancredo, already my dream ticket.

[Rajiv]

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For context, here is an article on Pat Tillman's death by Stan Goff, a retired Delta Force/special ops soldier - The Fog of Fame: Pat Tillman as everyone’s political football

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ought to be renamed: The House Groveling and Gratitude Committee. Oh thank you thank you thank you Lord Rumsfeld for gracing us with your presence; we shall do what we might to give the appearance of interrogating you while we deflect these troublesome Tillman people.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) at least tried to get at one aspect of this case, but his time expired and he never got an answer nor the opportunity to follow up. The other members pretended he wasn’t there (just as the press pretends he is not running in the Presidential primaries). Nothing embarrasses most of these elected officials like someone who asks, “What is that smell?”

This is the segway into the actual events that Congressional staffers and their bosses avoid like typhoid.

This also goes to explain why the Mainstream Media is scared stiff of Kucinich - and tries to marginalize him

[Pervilis Spurius]

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Too late, I've already joined the revolution.bmp

[Rajiv]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

At least there is love.jpg where you are!

[metalman]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

A skeptic going in, but it worked perfectly for me. Handed me Paul and Tancredo, already my dream ticket.

huh. i got this guy. must have my browser set up wrong or something...

[Tet]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

huh. i got this guy. must have my browser set up wrong or something...

You didn't buy HAL once Cheney won the selection? Had you done so I think you'd have a different view of shotgun Dickster. HAL was a $6 POS in 2002 and a $33 POS today, paying a 1.1% dividend. Now let's not start counting up the dead bodies to see how that was accomplished. Remember Saddam was a very, very bad man and even though he had nothing to do with 9-11 the Federal Reserve said he had it coming.

[Rajiv]

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I think there was a time warp involved somewhere. But seriously did you try the survey?

[c1ue]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

I guess I'm apathetic - I go from +14 to -7.

However, this highlights the key problems with this survey:

1) Not all issues are equal impact. While you can weight a particular issue Key, Important, or don't care, the reality is that most people have 1 or 2 specific issues they care about above all, the rest being tiebreakers.

2) I don't see any category for charisma, electability, home state, or character. For that matter height!

These have been shown to impact candidate's chances irrespective of their platform.

For example, H.Clinton is someone I'm pretty sure even if elected, actual potshots would be taken at her.

This has nothing to do with her platform now, but plenty to do with her past (and husband).

Interesting to see, but ultimately this survey highlights those candidates who try to be all things to all people, but who will always lose in the end against the candidate sharply focused on what people think they really care about.

[zenith191]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

Ron Paul ...............................

[zmas28]

Re: Which Presidential candidate Best reflects your issues?

70 Kucinich
54 Clinton
51 Edwards
49 Dodd
45 Biden
44 Gravel
41 Obama
39 Richardson
-8 Paul
-12 McCain
-18 T. Thompson
-23 Giuliani
-29 Cox
-33 Brownback
-35 Huckabee
-46 Romney
-64 Hunter
-67 Tancredo