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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:44 AM
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Poll question: Who would you support in the 2008 GE?
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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:46 AM
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1. I'd write in Al Gore. nt
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:47 AM
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2. Someone else.
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 10:48 AM by Tesha
(And yes, like the above poster, I'd probably end up
writing-in Al Gore also.)

Tesha
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:47 AM
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3. the democratic nominee, which is not clinton..yet
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:50 AM
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4. I posted this exact same poll a while back.
The problem is it takes place in some other dimension where the GOP has hopped leftwards while the Dems lean right.

It's kind of like asking someone to choose between Lyndon Johnson and Abraham Lincoln.
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dmallind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:59 AM
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9. Not at all
Except on the war (which is really an extension of his isolationist geopolitical stance rather than any commitment to peace and diplomacy) Paul is exceptionally right wing and would, given a compliant congress, gut all social safety programs and governmental regulation of the worst excesses of corporations from pollution to price gouging to employee safety. Why he gets any traction at all from anyone even vaguely moderate let alone left of center can only be explained by the stupidity of some people in thinking the war is the only thing that matters.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:51 AM
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5. Neither... Unless Hillary wins the primary.
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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:52 AM
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6. It's amazing how much support Paul seems to have here in Philadelphia
weird...
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:53 AM
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7. Lirwin, does this mean if Hillary is not the nominee, you'll vote for Paul?
your poll seems skewed that way.
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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:24 AM
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14. Not very observant then, are you?
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:01 PM
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20. actually, I consider myself perceptive.
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 12:03 PM by Lerkfish
and I notice you sidestep the question.

what are you going to do, considering how much you're paid or how much you've invested, either way, if Clinton is not the nominee?
Will you still vote Democratic, or will you vote the centrist republican?
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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:07 PM
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22. I've said many times, I will support 100% the democratic nominee
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 12:07 PM by Lirwin2
If you consider a poll like this to be a confession of my non-existant republican leanings, then maybe you need to relinquish your claim as being "perceptive"
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:08 PM
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23. I don't keep track of every post you make, actually
from the OP, it is not clear.

and again, care to answer my questions about policy? Or will you continue to avoid that as well.
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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:10 PM
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24. You didn't ask a question about policy.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:12 PM
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25. you're right. my bad, I was mixing two threads together
mea culpa.

here's the one of hte threads where I ask:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1950714&mesg_id=1951014
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NoodleBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 10:57 AM
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8. Remember, RON PAUL WOULD ABOLISH OUR GOVERNMENT
Seriously people, do you want to see the Departments of Education, Energy, Commerce, Labor, Health & Human Services, Veterans' Affairs, and many others SOLD to private investors??
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goodgd_yall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:40 AM
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17. Yeah, but he'll pull the troops out immediately---isn't that all that matters?
:eyes:
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TheUniverse Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:58 AM
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19. It wouldnt happen.
Congress would have to do that, not the president. Ron Paul would have an unsupported Democratic congress, so he couldn't accomplish any of that.
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NoodleBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:18 PM
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26. he could abolish them by executive order since they are part of the executive branch
and steamroll devestating tax cuts through congress like many presidents have.
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TheUniverse Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:53 PM
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29. He could do that.
But there would be a bill in Congress the very next day to reinstate them. And he couldn't "steamroll taxcuts through Congress." He would have zero percent support in congress.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:00 AM
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10. Not only stupid democrats would waster their vote there are
some who would vote for a republicans. I thought we didn't allow republicans on the journal.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:03 AM
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11. What? No Ralph Nader? Pat Buchanan? The Grim Reaper?
What kind of poll is that?
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lojasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:07 AM
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Neither, though I'd vote for Clinton. EOM
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lojasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:07 AM
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12. Neither, though I'd vote for Clinton. EOM
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BobRossi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:07 AM
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13. NOTA
Sitting the '08 GE out. Dems don't do the will of the people anyway.
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:35 AM
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15. I'll vote for whatever Dem wins the nomination
If it's Kucinich, I'll vote for him. If it's Clinton or Obama or Edwards or Richardson I'll vote for that person. I'm not a one issue voter...
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goodgd_yall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:38 AM
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16. The only issue Ron Paul is any good on is the war
He doesn't give a rat's ass about social services or anything else supported by taxes.
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TheUniverse Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 11:57 AM
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18. Ron Paul.
I disagree with him on nearly everything, except the war. I believe the war is the number one issue and I trust him far more to get us out of Iraq than to Hillary.
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SaveOurDemocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:27 PM
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27. ...and just where do you live in the universe? n/t
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TheUniverse Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:51 PM
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28. Ron Paul won't be the nominee.
Edited on Mon Oct-01-07 12:51 PM by TheUniverse
So this whole debate is invalid anyways. But hundreds of thousands of innocent people are dying in Iraq, and we need to end this by any means necessary. Im a Kucinich supporter by the way.
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 01:29 PM
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32. I am a Kucinich supporter but if the Repug's put up an
anti-war Ron Paul against a pro-war Hillary..... let's just say I won't be voting for more war.

The allure of Ron Paul is not just that he is against the war. He is also against U.S. Imperialism, he thinks we should stay out of certain peoples business and not have our fingers in every fight on Earth. That is the real issue the candidates are missing (not Kucinich he understands this).
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riqster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:05 PM
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21. Ron Paul lives in fantasyland
He actually thinks that if we just got rid of most governmental functions, replacements would magically appear. (Libertarian)

Peeps, if we have learned nothing from the last 7 years, we'd best learn this: theoreticians screw up governments. Right-wing libertarians are just as bad as Marxists in that respect.
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 12:55 PM
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30. None of the above.
Thank you.

TC
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Carrieyazel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 01:07 PM
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31. Ron Paul got it exactly right on the worlds most dire issue. Hillary went with the neocons.
I would not vote for Ron Paul in a general, but he had nerve. Hillary took the easy way out.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 01:33 PM
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33. Neither.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 08:28 PM
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34. Neither. n/t
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-01-07 08:59 PM
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35. I'd vote for a more realistic match-up. n/t
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