Which to you is more important in deciding which candidate to support?

In determining which candidate you'll support in primary season, which of the two responses below most affect your decision?

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NT

Anything less than that is just another episode of American Idol. :puke:

Sorry but the other two really don't matter to me, nor do I think I have much idea of what other people think is "electable" or "charismatic", so they can't sway me one way or the other.

"Electability" is so vague and nebulous as to be meaningless.

Charisma is a personal (subjective) thing and like I said, I wouldn't dare try to guess what most other Americans find charismatic. They seem to like idiots a whole lot (Bush, Britney, bobblehead idiot pundits)... so I'm way out of touch with the majority of this country on that score.

Sorry, but... huh?

I did notice his name next to a "Welfare to Work" bill...what's that about? Are you familiar with it?

If what he did in Illinois doesn't mean anything to you, it's because you're being willfully beligerent to it.

He also is the one who implemented a study to track welfare workers affected by Clinton's ending welfare legislation because he was concerned it was going to leave too many people suffering in the long run. It is now one of the key studies in the country on the consequences of welfare reform.

http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/research/IFS.html

If I hadn't posted his Illinois record, then you'd tell me his Senate record wasn't sufficient. Like I said, willfully beligerent to his accomplishments and I've got no idea why.

You've been lied to.

If you'd simply said "this thing he did (and described the thing)" it wouldn't seem so mindless.

That's definitely a feather in his cap.



And please with the assuming what I'd say... we've got enough "mind readers" around here as it is.

and then I get told to post the link.

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Thanks, sandnsea...

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I'm not easily inspired. If you can motivate me, you can motivate anyone.

I believe is electable...Obama.

...is also the one who inspires me and is the most electable....Obama. :toast:

Being on the same page policy-wise is the most important to me. As a former theatre student, I couldn't care less about charisma or a candidate's ability to "inspire". I see all of that junk as, well, junk. Useless drivel for the weak and feeble minded. Pure intelligence inspires me, regardless of personality. Empathy for those among us who are less fortunate plays well with me too. The rest is just a dog and pony show, and quite frankly, there are far too many here who should be ashamed of themselves for falling for the hoopla and promoting a candidate because they "inspire" or "make me feel hope"... it's all bullshit.

Still, I'll be interested to see how your poll comes out. It's not something I can vote in, but I'm betting you get a TON of responses!

The problem is I don't know who is more electable.

Obama leads in four (two only by two points) and they are tied in one.

Electability?


source:Survey USA

...you had to win the primary to even be in the GE.

does not translate to victory in the general.

So polls of probable Democratic voters in the primary doesn't have any bearing on the general election.

in an open primary.

66% of polled Daily Kos readers say their candidate "gets it".

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/28/11286/702/981/427178

How does one know that a candidate "gets it" if policy or "ability to inspire" aren't part of "getting it?"

Getting it is the bigger frame, while Policy or inspiration & such, are as you say "part of "getting it?"", the tertiary frame.

I think Edwards gets it, based on his work with policy papers.

You could be the most perfect leader ever born on the planet, with a solution to each of our problems that will work to solve them without creating new problems, but if you can't win a general election because you're too polarizing then what's the point of nominating you? It would just be saying "well we want to make a statement, even though we know we'll get another neocon in the white house".

I vote policies... exclusively, policies. I don't care about blow jobs, wives have their age, ugly hair or teeth...

bah...

I gave up being inspired by ANY politician a long time ago.