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funky_bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 08:06 PM
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Poll question: Edwards vs Bush
In the interest of fairness...

The election is today. Who gets your vote?
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dobak Donating Member (808 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 08:07 PM
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1. Edwards is my #2 - n/t
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Closer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 08:08 PM
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2. ..
Edited on Fri Jan-16-04 08:10 PM by Closer
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 08:29 PM
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3. Edwards
:)
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 09:09 PM
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4. Who is voting for Shrub?
I'll take Edwards any old day. I really think Edwards could be him. Though I hope it's Dean who's beating chimp.
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Exgeneral Donating Member (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 09:14 PM
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5. That looks like the Freeper gauge to me
The types that can't brngs themselves to vote against him for fear that it will be on their permanent record.
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RaRa Donating Member (705 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 09:23 PM
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6. No doubt
Jeeze, I LIKE Edwards (even if he isn't my #1 choice). But, come ON - *? Like I've said many times before, I'd vote for Jesse Helms, even a dead chicken before I'd vote for this piece of excrement. (And I really hate Jesse Helms.)
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 09:39 PM
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8. Are you saying RimJob tracks the movements of his disruptors?
And if they voted for a Democrat, even undercover, they would be forever banished from Freeperville?
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:05 PM
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18. there is always a constant bush vote from the freeps
it's the high point of their lives...to get to vote for bush at DU......
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Jerseycoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 09:35 PM
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7. Edwards nt
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MODemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 09:53 PM
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9. I'd vote for Edwards in a heart beat



Can't help but think what a handsome pair Edwards and Clark would be.
It's not fair we can only choose one person when we have so may great candidates.

:hi: :grouphug:
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funky_bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 10:03 PM
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12. You're right!
Clark/Edwards... presidential and cute to boot.

That's your second post on how handsome Clark is. Are you sure you're not ready to change your avatar? LOL

All in fun... all in fun. Maybe the BEST (and not necessarily the best looking) candidate win!
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texasmom Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 10:05 PM
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13. I know!
This is really a great slate of candidates. I think in all the tension and arguing we forget what a qualified, inspirational group they are as a whole. It's been a dispiriting and bleak three years, and we're lucky they're running and that we have good people to choose from.
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bookman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 09:58 PM
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10. There's a big list..
..of people I'd vote for before Bush.

Edwards would be in my top 3-5.
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texasmom Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 10:01 PM
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11. I really like Edwards
I saw him the other night on C-Span in Iowa and was very impressed.

I really like how he has continued along with his campaign, refining his message, staying positive. He's like a breath of fresh air, and I'm happy that he's picking up some of the undecideds. I hope he does well in Iowa.
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jsw_81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 10:06 PM
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14. Edwards!
And not only would I vote for him, but I'd actively campaign for him.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 01:16 AM
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15. I voted 'Edwards' --
-- Edwards' detractors claim he has little experience, but Dubya didn't have much either. The difference is that Edwards is inherently decent and brainy. Bush is neither, or at least there's no evidence to support either compassion or intelligence. Bush's smirking ridicule of a Texas woman's execution was an abomination. It is one of hundreds of things that prove he should be nowhere near power.

If your poll is the poll I'm looking at in November, Senator Edwards gets my vote and my scorn for the incumbent will be ten months stronger.

Go Democrats!
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 01:41 AM
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16. I'd be happy to support Edwards
He's currently in my #3 spot. I think he's a fundamentally decent guy, and I've really gotten to like him.
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Bread and Roses Donating Member (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-04 05:39 AM
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17. I agree with the crunchy frog!
Edwards is my #3 and I'd actively campaign for him.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:07 PM
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19. Would Vote For Edwards But He Won't Be The Nominee.
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arewethereyet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:20 PM
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20. I guess we'll see but I would not assume he can't be the guy
he's beaten the odds and amazed people his entire life.
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webkev Donating Member (267 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:22 PM
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21. I really think Edwards is great too
nt
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:25 PM
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22. He has the best chance against Junior, period.
They're terrified of this guy, and in the general election, he has virtually no negatives. They'll try to paint him as responsible for the rising cost of health care, but it won't stick, and in light of his health proposals, it may well backfire resoundingly.

He has an extremely good "feel", and for the facile, he's a very reassuring and magnetic person. Among the hue and cry, I rarely hear anyone like him less after their first exposure to him in a debate or town hall setting.

I'm a partisan for him, and have been for a very long time, so please understand the enthusiasm that many of us have at the moment.

This guy is truly honorable and decent, and he is a healer; he can do more to shepherd our re-entry into the world community after the unilateral bullying of late.

The calculus of his appeal is daunting: as he says: "I can beat George Bush everywhere". This is VERY important. Any advocacy of a Dean of Kerry candidacy has to make apologies for or spin on prospects for the South, and that's just not an issue with Edwards.

He's also a truly morally decent person, and his message is premised upon the system being inherently good, just off track at the moment. That kind of message has traditionally been very powerful in Presidential politics, and this guy walks the talk. Top this off with a stunning rhetorical ability and the ultimate gift in American politics: personal control and shocking intelligence THAT DOESN'T DRAW ATTENTION TO ITSELF. The guy's flat-brilliant, and in complete personal control of his emotions, yet he comes off as nonthreatening and very comfortable. He looks and feels very comfortable with himself, and he has an endearing ability to allow himself to look a little clunky; a debate with Junior would be more devastating than Kennedy's was to Nixon.

Try to calmly look at this guy with these thoughts in mind. He is the most able to win a general election of them all, and by quite a margin. I also truly like and respect him, irrespective of that.
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:39 PM
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23. so eloquently expressed! Thanks.
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