Who is more progressive?

Out of these one-time presidential candidates, whom do you consider the most progressive?

Therefore I give them "most progressive".

I supported his campaign in 2008 until he pulled out before my presidential primary (I voted for Hillary). After all this deception on his part, I will not and I cannot support him for ANYTHING on DU or anywhere else. I despise the guy because I despise his lack of values and his hypocrisy.

That he mouthed a "progressive" line does nothing for me...he might as well be a ventriloquist...

Well, more like a dummy in my book.

Green energy/global warming.

the others, not so much.

Dennis is the man.

Kickin' it for Dennis again. Love that man and Elizabeth too.

<------ That would be him.

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Dean!

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... WAY more progressive than any of the characters I listed in the poll. :toast:

John Edwards is progressive in the same way as say, Joel Osteen or maybe Elmer Gantry, is progressive.

The correct answer is None of the Above.

John Kerry.

Although Edwards was the only one I've ever "officially" supported.

other pro-labor Democrats, of whom Edwards was certainly one of the best.

Kerry, IMO, is the big picture guy. For U.S. voters to vote in 04 as enthusiastically as they did in pretending Dubya was a legitimate public servant and in the same stroke reject someone as far-seeing as John Kerry is unsettling, disappointing, and kind of disgusting.

Other than them, I will reluctantly choose the public person (not the actual) Edwards. Talked the talk, didn't walk the walk.

This is compounded by a tendency to change position over time. The way that Al Gore presents himself in his current form is quite different from back when he was picking Lieberman for VP.

John Kerry's role in the anti-war movement was extremely progressive, but his support of the IWR was not compatible with that history, and his presidential campaign seemed concentrated on presenting himself as the distinguished veteran in contrast to shrub's chickenhawk ass. But this embracing of militarism (coinciding with the draft Wes Clark movement, another example of a militaristic trend in the party) wasn't really anything the country needed. In fact, if the Republican were to "report for duty" and flash a military salute to the crowd, people here would rightly ridicule the hell out of them.

Not long into the primaries, the established pattern became Obama being the favorite of blue areas, and Hillary being the favorite of red areas. Obama's subsequent actions of picking the same cabinet that one would have expected from Hillary, creates questions about whether his positioning himself as the candidate of the young and the progressives actually has any substance behind it.

Similar for the rest.

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He may have been willing to sabotage the entire 2008 election cycle, but he was the only populist aside from Kucinich. Then again, he didn't come around to his left wing populism until about 6+ years ago. Before that he was (to my knowledge) more of a moderate democrat.

I think Obama is far more progressive than he leads on, but I think he tempers and hides it. So deep down inside Obama is probably a fiery progressive (he supported gay marriage back in 1996, when it was still a radical position. And he supported single payer back in 2003 and probably long before that, when single payer was far more radical than it is now) but he pretends to be moderate.

but the most progressive?

issues - and particularly, trade and globalization issues.

In terms of total career, John Kerry easily.

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