If your preferred candidate did NOT win the primarys would you:

[TheBigGuy]

(thanks to the anonyomity of the DU polling facility we can now gauge the Anybody but Bush strength and third party strenght here at DU).

[molly]

1. Yep - I will vote for the DEM nominee

[TheBigGuy]

2. For folks not registered yet...

(I know we have some younger folks here, and some foreigners)..vote in this poll as if you could vote in the election...

[TheBigGuy]

3. kick

:dem:

[Terwilliger]

4. How about "I reserve judgement on who to vote for after the primaries"

There are a lot of things I dont like about these polls...but the worst offense has to be limiting choices through ideological lenses

[IndianaGreen]

11. I agree! I will vote for Kucinich if Dean drops out

as I would for Sharpton and Mosley Braun.

If none of those win the nomination, I would vote for Graham and Gephardt (with some reservations, of course).

Kerry could pull a Hubert Humphrey and disavowed his war vote, and ditch the Al From's talking points he has been using. Kerry is so afraid of offending, that he offends! Kerry should stake out a position and stick with, like Lieberman does. He may not gain many votes by doing that, but he might regain some of the respect he has lost since last year.

Indiana is going to go on the Bush column no matter what my vote is, so if an unrepentant prowar candidate wins the nomination, I won't vote for him and I may have the luxury of voting for a Presidential candidate in one of the other minor parties on the Indiana ballot.

I will vote in 2004 for three local compelling issues: reelect Julia Carson to Congress, keep Mitch Daniels from becoming Governor, and vote against Evan Bayh.

[TSIAS]

5. I voted for "Any Democrat"

But I think there needs to be another category- those who would support the Democrats conditionally depending on who they nominate.

[TheBigGuy]

9. Thats what #2 and #3 are for.

If you cant support any of the candidates, presumably you will vote 3rd party of go fishing.

[RichM]

6. A problem with the poll: if you have 2 candidates that are acceptable

to you, BUT neither becomes the nominee, so that their losing probably puts you in third-party land, there's no choice for you in the presented options. (Or 3 or 4 acceptable candidates, etc)

[Az]

7. Need another option

If Lieberman or another Bush lite candidate got in I would seriously be pressed to vote 3rd party.

[TheBigGuy]

8. then your vote is #2.

You could set up another poll, tho...

[TheBigGuy]

10. x

x

[LSdemocrat]

12. Of course I'd vote Democratic

.

[directinfection]

13. not sure

As a registered independent, im not sure who i would vote for.

right now i am leaning towards kucinich or dean. Im pretty sure each will not get the nomination, but it will be pretty hard sacrificing my ideals just to give bush the boot. I don't believe in the two party system, the way i see it both parties try and capture the swing voters by pretending they are more moderate than they are. look at bush, im sure he duped a lot of people into thinking he was a moderate conservative and wouldn't be that bad.

why should we settle for less? if more people voted how they really felt instead of being trapped into voting for someone just because its not the other canidate, maybe we could see some change.

I voted for Gore, but i wish i had voted for nadar. I was one who voted for the lesser evil as they say. my vote for gore was soely on the confidence that he would really do something for the environment.

recently i almost registered as a democrat, but i just don't see unity in the party. i hope this doesn't mean i can't post here any more, because there are many democrats I would support, and its the party i most identify with.

i don't believe in the idea that i shouldn't vote for the canidate i like, because they don't have a chance. thats untrue. It could take a long time before a 3rd party emerges, but i believe in it. Hell, if more canidates were unafraid like kucinich, i would join the democratic party. But it just seems like the same old same old most of them time. sometimes i wonder how people like the kennedys remotely know what its like for the average person in this country.

so this issue will bother me till the election. as someone in favor of the environement, i will probably vote for the democratic canidate regardless of who it is because Bush must be stopped at all costs. doesn't mean i won't grumble about it though.