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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:46 PM
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Poll question: Edwards supporters: now what?
If you're an Edwards supporter and your primary is still to come, what will you do?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:47 PM
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1. Vote for him the primary anyway.
Vote for the nominee in the GE.

There's just not enough difference between the other two for me to care much which one wins.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:50 PM
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4. redqueen, you speak for me in this... eom
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:28 PM
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19. So if you vote on principle instead of electibility...
why not Kucinich?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:33 PM
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24. It's not principle... it's strategy.
If Edwards doesn't have many delegates, that would lessen his bargaining power at the convention.

Kucinich only has one delegate... and based on my experience last time around, he won't get any more.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 09:01 PM
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29. Huh. Interesting.
What would Edwards do with "bargaining power."
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:48 PM
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2. Sit out the primary and wait and see who I have to vote for in the general. n/t
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:51 PM
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8. Not a damn thing wrong with that...
There's not much difference in "The Other Two". As long as you vote Dem in the general, you're still golden.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:49 PM
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3. I've already voted for him in the primary.
Not sure what I'll do come November.
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Reader Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:50 PM
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5. Drink heavily. Wait until May.
Oregonians never get to vote for their first choices. Luckily, we have good beer.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:50 PM
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6. Other. Research Obama and Hillary. Look for policy distinctions.
And then vote for the one I like best.

If I don't decide before the MS primary, I'll vote Edwards. I do think I'll have made a decision before then, though.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:50 PM
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7. I say vote for JE in primary.
I am still going to vote for Kucinich on Feb. 5
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Blarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:29 PM
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21. WTF ?
Why the fuck would you vote for someone NOT running for President ?

Kucinich and Edwards people are exposing themselves. Might as well vote for Gore.
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stimbox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:52 PM
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9. You forgot Gravel.
http://www.myspace.com/mikegravelforpresident

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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 07:06 PM
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27. Sorry, my mistake
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:52 PM
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10. I'll vote for Obama
cause I can't stand Hillary and want her stopped.
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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:54 PM
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11. Watch the debate on Thursday and watch both campaigns
to see if they adopt Edwards' positions or run to the right. No more pandering to the right. I'm leaning Clinton right now, because I don't like what I've seen from Obama, lately. I have until our Precinct Caucus on Feb 9th to decide.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:56 PM
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12. other. no real idea what I'll do in the primary,
but beyond the general, it'll be the same fights as always. Just new faces floating the same corporate ideas.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:03 PM
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13. JRE in the primary
because I could care less which M$M approved candidate wins.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:10 PM
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14. I don't care anymore.
After ten years of fighting off the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Bushco, just to see two corporate candidates offered up to us by MSM, I just don't care anymore.

I'm done fighting. If John's done, I'm done. It's all a hoax, apparently.
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Jersey Devil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:22 PM
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15. How about letting us digest our lunches before demanding we go to your side?
Cripes! We need time to think and regroup. Jumping down our throats demanding we support other candidates an hour or two after hearing that Edwards is dropping out is not good strategy, so whoever you support, I am against him/her.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 07:07 PM
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28. Where exactly in my OP is a demand specified?
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Jack Bone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:23 PM
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16. Write in "Al Gore" he was my 1st choice anyway.
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ShadesOfGrey Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:26 PM
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17. With a heavy heart, I decided to switch my vote...

and my support to Obama today.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:27 PM
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18. Vote for Edwards in the primary.
:woohoo:
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:29 PM
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20. Check into a Buddhist Monastery
Until November. Chant "Om" a lot.

Emerge in time for the general election. Hold nose and vote Dem. Return to monastery. Rinse and repeat as needed.

I already voted for Edwards. Well, at least it felt good for a whole 24 hours. :cry:
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:30 PM
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22. um, take some time to think, since we just got the news today? Thanks much.
:eyes:
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lastliberalintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:30 PM
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23. Don't know if I qualify
At this point, Edwards was getting my vote even though I've never firmly been in anyone's camp this year. He will likely still get my primary vote, or else I will write in Kucinich as a thank you to the Texas SC. November, I write in someone to the left of Dwight Eisenhower.


Regardless, in November we will lose against McCain/Huckabee. People on DU think I'm crazy, but that ticket is scary in more ways than one, and they will be much harder to fight than people here seem to realize.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:34 PM
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25. This DUer doesn't think you are crazy at all...
Edited on Wed Jan-30-08 06:34 PM by Hell Hath No Fury
I have serious doubts about a win by Clinton OR Obama against McCain, let alone a McCain/Huck ticket. Though he wasn't my candidate, I thought Edwards at least stood a good chance at beating McCain.
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BlackVelvet04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 09:02 PM
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30. No, we won't lose.
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vanbean Donating Member (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:36 PM
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26. I gave him my support, my money, and will give him my vote!
In the GE I'll support the nominee because that's the right thing to do but as of right now my heart tells me that I might as well write in Bartlet because I don't see either Obama or Clinton winning against McCain.:cry:
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 09:18 PM
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31. Renounce my citizenship and move to Cuba
Viva Fidel!
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