Why Do Dean's People Think He's Going to Lose?--Why Then Vote?? [View All]

[Starpass]

I've been holding this in for a week and it's made me so sick after two and a half years of trying to get this fucking bastard out of the White House and then seeing this. One of you posted a newspaper article last week when the polls in N.H. showed Dean with a commanding lead over Kerry---great, any supporter would be real pumped up over that. But, then I read the rest of the article and had a real sense of total hoplessness for '04.

It said that 64% of these same people surveyed believed that Bush would win anyway and about that same amount said it was more important to them to vote for someone who they perceived spoke out and expressed feelings like theirs than picking a winning candidate. NOW, I don't give a rat's ass if you, individually, believe Dean will win 99% of the vote in Nov. '04; I'm saying that this poll you were so happy about says that approx. two-thirds of those who will vote for Dean don't think he can win. And that brings me to this...

I know the American people are morons; but a lot of them do show up to vote for presidential elections because of the hype, tv ads, etc. It is totally irresponsible for those who listen to politics and vote in the primaries to present as the Dem candidate (as an alternative to Bush), a candidate that two-thirds of them believe can't win. Do you expect that at the national level people disinterested in politics will take up the slack and turn Dean into a monumental victory when his own voters don't believe???? This is damn serious business and one on which rests the fate of a lot of congressional candidates as well as the occupancy of the Oval Office. And, you know what, Bush IS beatable and there are more and more indications that people will be receptive to someone else. I'd prefer fielding a candidate whose supporters, when polled, actually believe Bush will be defeated.