Democratic primaries

Cast your vote for the democrats

  • Carol Moseley-Braun

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Howard Dean

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • John R. Edwards

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dick Gephardt

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Bob Graham

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • John F. Kerry

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dennis J. Kucinich

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Joseph L. Lieberman

    Votes: 2 66.7%

  • Al Sharpton

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    3
Just for the record last year i picked John Kerry as the democratic winner here at otc and i stand by that statement. Not mind you that i would vote for him.
 
It's hard for me to pick one in your poll yet. I've been watching them though and at the moment Dean and Kerry seem interesting. Check out this interesting bit on Democratic front-runners though.

That is because, with rare exceptions, Democratic primary and caucus voters reject the candidate who leads in the polls and nominate, instead, some semi-unknown underdog.

Let's look at the record. Only twice in the last 44 years has the Democratic nominee for president emerged in the year before the election as the clear front-runner in the Gallup Poll: Former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984 and then-Vice President Al Gore in 2000.


By contrast, every other eventual Democratic presidential candidate since (with the obvious exception of uncontested incumbent President Bill Clinton in 1996) has trailed -- often badly -- in surveys the year before the election.

Consider the polling record of the only Democrat since FDR to win two White House terms -- Bill Clinton. In August 1991, the Arkansas governor was running fifth with 11 percent, badly trailing New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and former California Gov. Jerry Brown.

By that October, just 13 months before he would defeat President George Herbert Walker Bush, Clinton had slipped to a discouraging 6 percent in the Gallup.

Yes, John F. Kennedy was running second to two-time nominee Adlai Stevenson in polls conducted in January, April, May and November of 1959. But JFK looked like a world-beater compared to other eventual Democratic standard-bearers. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, the 1968 nominee, was the first choice of just 6 percent of Democrats in September 1967.

Four years later, Sen. George McGovern went from 5 percent support in January all the way to 5 percent support in December, when he still trailed both senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy by more than 20 points.

Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, who won the presidency in 1976, did not register -- not even in single digits -- in any of the four 1975 polls. By August 1979, President Carter was again the underdog, trailing Sen. Kennedy by 63 percent to 25 percent before the Iranian hostage crisis rescued his political career.
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I just don't see any surprises coming this year. The democrats are already panicing and for good reason, they need to get their shit together. I just don't see why they don't hunt someone like
Bill Richardson
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or
mario cuomo
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Either of these guys imo have the ability to take out Bush. Hell i'd vote for either of them over Bush.
The dems need a good man, a smart man and an honest man because put simply if they find someone better rather then beating Bush they'll be doing little more than beating around the Bush. What they have now just won't cut the cake.
 
CydCharisse said:
I'm a republican, so no votes from me
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So when you vote you don't actually look at the candidates or think about the issues right? Just trying to find an (R)?

Easy that way I suppose.
 
You know, you'd think the democrats would have learned something from not voting the last time around. Looks like Bush for another four years.
 
HeXp£Øi± said:
You know Squig, one of the reasons i never liked Eddie Murphy is that he always laughed at his own jokes.
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You really missed out on a great comedian then.
 
flavio said:
You really missed out on a great comedian then.
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Naaa, i saw much of his stuff. I was just giving Squig a hard time. I'm more into Bill Marrs type of standup. That is, when he's bashing the liberals.
 
HeXp£Øi± said:
Naaa, i saw much of his stuff. I was just giving Squig a hard time. I'm more into Bill Marrs type of standup. That is, when he's bashing the liberals.
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I tried doing a search on Bill Marrs and camr up with this guy's photos of Cairo and Bali. Interesting, but not very funny. I'm thinking you must be talking about the politically incorrect guy? He's cool, but his name is spelled different.
 
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