DU 2008 Presidential Primary Poll ... Who would you support as of today?

I've added Al Gore b/c I think he can be persuaded. The other names have been taken from ABC's "Presidential Invisible Primary Ratings." I'm taking the top few Dems and adding a few others for our resident sock puppets and/or independents. If your choice is not listed, please post who you support.

I don't wish to "debate" here, but to get a feel for those who are participating today.

*** I wouldn't mind a K and R now and again? *** ;)

Thanks

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I'd like Conyers for pres.

at least make him prove he can win a statewide election before a nation wide election.

The perfect ticket. imho

that would be perfection

Gore/Feingold 8 years

Feingold/Obama 8 years

Obama/? 8 years

That would be awesome.

Feingold on the bottom would have gotten the party's base more firmly behind Gore and plus it would have done the same with Jewish voters as Lieberman. Gore/Wellstone would have done this even better ticket because Wellstone was more well known by the party's liberal base. 2/3rds of Nader's vote share would have been lost due to the prospect of Wellstone or Feingold being a heartbeat away from the presidency.

packing day.

wanted to be fair and he was at the bottom of the ABC poll. Though I don't put much faith in that particular poll.

I know the polls already started but it is still early. Do it now I suggest. Drop a Republican.

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I'm interested in seeing what happens in this poll, too! :hi:

But no matter what, when a Dem wins back the WH I will be in Washington DC for the inauguration with my little girl perched on my soldiers. She'll turn 5 in January 2009 so there's a chance she'll remember the day.

On edit: Which means she'll also remember her Mommy crying her eyes out, too. She'll ask why and I'll be proud to tell her it's because we're getting our country back.

wish that were an option, but thanks for inlcuding Feingold.. :hi:

And I don't see Joltin' Joe Biden anywhere on the list:eyes:

I hope it was a joke!

I want to see Warner/Clark, Warner/Gore

Hey there, Mr./Ms. Disruptor. Don't worry, you'll get your chance to vote for McCain, on the day of the last election your party will win for about fifty years. Enjoy!

He hasn't concentrated on raising money for himself, but he's consistently been there for Democrats across the country (he just was raising money for Democrats in Ohio and he keynotes the North Dakota State Democratic Convention on April First for example).

But I am proud to support Clark for 08. He is a man with the courage of his convictions, who speaks directly and never dumbs down his message. He is not a product or the servant of a Party or Special Interest machine, and he appeals to voters across the board in every region of the nation. I think Clark can break through the Republican noise machine. He has done amazingly well at doing that during his FOX commentary appearances. Our nation will still be in a mess, and the world will still be a dangerous place in 2008, made more so by the current Bush regime. I think voters will trust the Presidency to Clark, but for me electability is just sweet gravy, I think Clark will make an excellent President.

All of the other potential candidates are blowing their horns for themselves, but General Clark is doing the right thing by campaigning to get control of one or both houses of Congress. If the Dems don't get some majority in Congress, there probably won't be any Dem in the White House and we'll be stuck exactly where we are for ??? years.

Clark is the extraorginary strategist that we need, and he sets out the proper priorities to get where the Dems need to go to win "anything". That's one reason he's doing the FAUX net gig....

He's got more under that "24 karat" silver "dome" than most people realize. He wasn't the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe because he was just tootin' his own horn....he had to govern ALL of the NATO allied troops in ALL OF EUROPE....housing, schools, health care, etc. He was the "governor" (if you will) in charge of about anything a state governor would. And if he hadn't worked his a-- off, he certainly wouldn't have accomplished what he has.... He's on more corporate boards than most any governor or senator I've heard of.

Give his credentials some thought....he's our best opportunity to change this country back to what it could be....the best!

an excellent balance of education, training, worldview, planning experience working as a team to put this poor battered country of ours back together.

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Sounds like Gore/Feingold is DU's desire.

Clinton and Edwards can get fucked, as can Allen and Johnny insane in the membrane McCain. Gore and Kerry already had a chance. Nader is irrelevant. If there is a winning Democratic presidential candidate for 2006, it'll have Mark Warner on it.

is Al Gore, however my third choice is aaaaaaaah Al Gore.

however I am strongly leaning toward Al Gore, I will get back to you when I have made up my mind for sure.

may I recommend a fellow named Al Gore?

and bow in your general direction:) , I should have thought of that.


P.S. We need a smilie that can bow.

But if you push me, I still say Wes Clark...

I voted for Gore.
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I see we have a lone Nader fan? ;)

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I love you Al. Please run.

unless he/she is currently kissing republican ass.

I voted for Gore but he won't run.

My next choice is Feingold.

Sue

Gore could change his mind, but he's sitting pretty right now as a board member at Apple and other companies. He is also getting paid good money to speak his mind in front of large crowds. Imagine that!

Peace.

He hasn't declared officially, well, a wishful vote. He's sincere that he watches out for Elizabeth's health and his kids first. If his spouse Elizabeth got sick again, (goodness gracious)he would not consider running again for one moment in her need to continue to get well.

:loveya: JRE

Meanwhile, I'm glad JRE's out there fightin' for the rest of us regarding middle class and poverty issues...and trying to help some smaller Dems with a little bit of fund raising to give their campaigns some good ads in running for the State houses. State laws are sometimes more powerful than National ones, you know.

A nice poll in general. Thanks for posting it.

I am still trying to forgive him for voting for Roberts though.

I strongly support Russ in '08.
I wouldn't mind however, a Gore-Fiengold Ticket.

the Military Industrial Complex. This is so long overdue. Should have been done yesterday.

He'd put all contracts up for bid and get rid of everything possible and trim the fat. We'd have a leaner less expensive army. Most important of all...he'd find a way for us to get out of Iraq!!!! If anyone can do it...he can.

she seems like a natural to me.

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noted. I added Feingold b/c of popular demand.

she just doen't come to the top of anybody else's mind.

there's still time, I suppose.

I saw her say this on T.V. last night or the night before...wish I remembered the interview.

I wasn't real surprised she said she wasn't going to be running, but I was surprised said she would not be on the ticket at all. She said it pretty flatly.

...Senselessbrenner in Wisconsin's 5 CD: http://bk2006.org

After all, 2006 comes BEFORE 2008, Mol.

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NGU.

That along with the fact that we don't have a President and have been without for some years now. ;)

But first things first. B-)

NGU.

.....I caught a speech at a GWU symposium telecast on C-Span the other day.....I know absolutly nothing of this individuals credentials however his open and honest repudiation of torture as practiced by those that represent us was inspiring.......As Judge Advocate for the Navy I assume he has the credentials to at least stand beside Gore in the nomination process.....

What a different world this would have been if he had been allowed to have take office after he won in 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DemEx

You might like this website for grassroots Gore supporters: www.algore.org

In Gore We Trust :)

appeal as well, I think we have to find a way to get him in the running. :hi:

"In Gore We Trust" cute.

No need for me to vote this poll.

"wrong." I'm not wishing this I'm just making a prediction. I like Feingold personally, though I'm one of the 85 Gore voters as of this time.

A lot can happen between now and the start of the primary season. Certainly the 2006 will determine whether the Democratic Party is already on life support.

Watch the census and you will see the mass migration - and electoral votes - from the blue north and northeast, to the red south and southeast.

As many have observed - all politics is local. As long as we do not have draft, the war in Iraq, the deficit, the wiretapping and the antics of Libby do not touch the personal lives of most voters. Certainly not the lives of Karl Rove's crowd for whom "baby killing" and "perverts" resonate a lot more immediately and personal.

Until we leave the talks about censure and impeachment and wiretapping aside and start talking about schools, and heath care, and jobs, and retirement, and make it personal, we will continue to lose members of Congress.

So I would like to see how presidential wannabe handle the 2006 elections, and how they plan to make it personal, to the voters. And, no, not by saying, like Kerry "how they personally oppose to abortion" and perhaps even to gay marriage, but to frame the questions in a way that matter.

Oh, and this time last cycle, Joe Lieberman topped everyone's list.

And, I trust that he would have the confidence of the American people right off the bat.

That ticket never crossed my mind, actually...

In that order of preference.

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Richardson is my top choice.

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

I went for Gore.

You could have the game board be all these red states and red state functions and red state national monuments and national parks and pro war rallies and the object is to try to find Joe, who's got to be hiding in there somewhere.

"Where's Lieberman?!"

as IF.

:kick: and :hide:

So doesn't matter if he's on there or not.

You will have to go post on some conservative sites to get a rally for "Bye"! :hi:

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The name of the forum is Democratic Underground, I thought. Let me check again. Is it the Green Forum? No. Is it the Republican Forum? No.

My dream ticket. However I wouldn't cry if Feingold, Edwards or Clinton got the primary nod.

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respectively.

:toast: Now, to get Gore to run. ;)

That would be a really good ticket and draw a lot of the Hispanic vote. It would certainly get mine.

The one thing I don't want to do is weaken ourselves in either house of Congress, but especially not the Senate. That knocks out Clinton, Feingold, Warner, McCain and Kerry.

A Gore/Clark or Clark/Gore ticket would certainly be interesting, but I can't see either of them being willing to settle for second banana.

Clark/Edwards shows promise, with the possible benefit of 8 years to groom Edwards for the reigns of power.

Interesting how nobody seems to have mentioned Dean. I suppose that is an example of how even we moderates and liberals are susceptible to the right wing media juggernaut and it's endless propaganda.

barely register on scientific, national polls of Democrats.

What does that tell us?

But, then again we knew that.

have to do with results of scientific opinion polls that they report on?

ABC is a media outlet, they conducted the poll I noted in my OP, they decided the content/context/candidates. I added Al Gore and Feingold for the reasons I've noted above.

I guess I don't find any poll too scientific at this point given we don't even know who's running.

I'm not quibbling with your poll questions. I just find it intriguing that in poll after poll of Democrats nationally, Hillary Clinton leads the bunch (and yes I know much of that is name recognition), but General Clark and Russ Feingold don't even register out of single digits.

DU polls, however, tell quite a different story.

Which leads to me believe that either all the Hillary supporters here do not bother to vote in DU polls, or DU is seriously out of synch with the mood of national Democrats across the country.

I don't know which is the correct answer.

I think you hit on it when you said "name recognition."

I'd be interested to see Hilary poll against Gore on a national level.

Since you did not include his name on your poll. I will add it here.

Thanks

You will get a lot of laughter and snickers, and perhaps a bird or two.

There aren't many Hoosiers who post here. I'm starting to wonder how many Democrats actually post at DU.

with other Feingold supporters at 9 pm est at www.russforpresident.com