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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:09 PM
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Poll question: Who is the most viable primary challenger to Obama in 2012?
"Viable" does not necessarily mean "can win"; rather, who will be most effective at mobilizing the American people to drive the 2012 electoral agenda in a more progressive direction?

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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:10 PM
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1. No one is going to primary him. President Obama WILL win re-election in 2012. n/t
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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:11 PM
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2. Russ Feingold please, and thanks.
It would be mighty nice if we could clone him so one could be the next gov of WI when Walker is recalled, and the other remind POTUS what it's like to be a Democrat.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:25 PM
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20. +1000
Very weird to have Baldwin mentioned as a presidential possibilty instead of Feingold, who has been elected Senator 3 times, and talked about running for president.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:12 AM
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40. I'd dam sure vote for him a lot sooner than I'd ever vote for Obama again
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:12 PM
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3. the one I would like to see (but has no chance) is Eliot Spitzer.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:12 PM
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4. Bernie Sanders/Alan Grayson. n/t
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:15 PM
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13. +1000% --- Two strong anti-war candidates -- !!
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Hatchling Donating Member (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:20 PM
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15. Bernie would need to change his party affiliation but I like it.
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 09:22 PM by Hatchling
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:27 PM
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23. Yeah, but just half of it. He calls himself a Democratic Socialist. :) It's easy to change party
affiliation. This country would LOVE that ticket! They NEED a ticket like that. :loveya:
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green prol Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:00 PM
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34. +++
:kick:
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:12 PM
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5. Eliott Spitzer
There's some CHANGE you can believe in...
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:13 PM
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6. St. Dennis of Syria, of course. Maybe he can get his hero Bashir Assad to campaign for him.
:rofl:
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:13 PM
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7. Bernie Sanders For President 2012
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maryellen99 Donating Member (342 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:15 PM
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12. Bernie is not a Dem nt
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:21 PM
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17. I really don't care if he is Democrat, Republican, Socialist,
Communist, or whatever. It seems he is standing by our values more than the real Democrats.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:26 PM
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22. So he'd have let us default first?
Or used the 14th amendment or some of that other magical crap?
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:28 PM
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24. He's a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST and all it takes is a change in party affiliation to run. n/t
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:15 PM
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35. And which Democrats in the party apparatus will get behind Sanders?
None.

If he wants to change his party affiliation, he could certainly do so.

Doesn't mean he'd get any support from the party he chose to join.
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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 07:58 AM
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39. Neither is Obama, apparently.
n/t
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:15 PM
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14. +1 --- Bernie is a better democrat than many Democrats -- !!!
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Luciferous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:17 PM
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37. I agree. He's one of the few who actually seems to be fighting for us.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:14 PM
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8. You might as well list FDR's clone.
This is not happening.

Not happening.

Not. Happening.
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lbrtbell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:31 PM
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25. A lot of things don't happen
This doesn't mean people can't speculate.
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sad sally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:52 PM
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30. If the dreaded Republican party can have members who morph into the growing teaparty,
why is it impossible to think there might be enough pissed off, disenfranchised Democrats to turn to something other than the status quo, which is screwing with every principle a whole lot of us thought this party was all about?
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:14 PM
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9. Preferably someone OUTSIDE of the Koch Bros. DLC Dem Party ... !!!
Someone not pre-owned and pre-bought by corporate money --

ABO -- Anybody but Obama, really --


Sen. Bernie Sanders -

Any of the tons of civilian "democrats" in the nation --

from James Galbraith to Alan Grayson ---

Tom Hayden --

We need two strong anti-war candidates -- !!!
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:14 PM
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10. I am.
CTE for America in 2012!
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:14 PM
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11. yo mama nt
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NorthCarolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:20 PM
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16. Other: Bernie Sanders. nt
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maryellen99 Donating Member (342 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:21 PM
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18. What about Al Gore nt
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Waiting For Everyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:23 PM
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19. Other: Elizabeth Warren
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:16 PM
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36. Yes
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:26 PM
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21. Book mark this to see if any of the suggested ones in congress
vote for this plan.

If they do they should be equal sellouts.

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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:42 PM
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26. ROTFLMAO.........please.
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:44 PM
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27. None of the above. nt
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:46 PM
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28. Did not vote because its a bizarre list.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:46 PM
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29. The American people.
We need to move to movement politics and alternatives in our communities.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:56 PM
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31. Johnny Depp
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:57 PM
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32. Excuse me but... all those candidates are Democrat.
:shrug:
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 09:59 PM
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33. Mitt Romney..
If anyone actually primaries Obama (and it's not gonna happen.. no one has 1/10th of his war chest) - the Romney or who ever the GOP nominee is - is the biggest winner.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:22 PM
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38. Kucinich can't even win a state-wide election for office in FUCKING OHIO.
HIS HOME STATE.

Yet many here think as a primary candidate, he'll carry the nation?


Wow.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:13 AM
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41. Sorry but nobody on that list is going to challenge Obama.
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