Quick question:

[Zynx]

Why are the media feeding this notion that Kerry is electable? I hate this very idea. It is an absolutely ridiculous notion to me.

[countmyvote4real]

1. Their puppet masters tell them to so that Bush will be

reselected.

[lcordero]

2. Because they want to destroy the Democratic Party

From immediately up to a few years from now the Democratic Party will be bled of voters(going Green or Independent) if a freetrader, "national security", pro-war/lie type get the nomination.

The reasoning will be that why should I vote for this person when he is going to appoint corporatist judges that have no regard for rights against another person that will appoint RW idealogues that are going to do the same thing plus do some bible-thumping.

[lovedems]

3. My husband has that exact same issue. He is a HUGE supporter

of DK and likes Kerry the least. I like Clark myself. I have had a person or two try to get me to convince my husband to switch to Clark. He won't do it. He is with Dennis until Dennis is out. He is ABB however.

One thing about my husband is he thinks the death toll in Iraq over-rides all other issues. He thinks that the people and their families who are losing loved ones is far more important that "our money" (the economy). He is Dennis all the way.

[MariaS]

10. I totally agree

with your husband. Iraq is the overriding issue for me. I went with Clark because I want someone who has the skill and knowledge to do what has to be done to get our boys home and help restore some semblance of a standard of living for the country we have demolished and the lives we have destroyed in Iraq.

[arewethereyet]

4. they have a great deal of air time planned for the election, ads to sell

if there is no drama, there are no viewers and thats bad for business.

[bushwakker]

5. Who is the most electable?

Give me your order of the top 4.

[Zynx]

7. I think Kerry is the least.

1. Edwards
2. Clark
3. Dean
4. Kerry

He is so easily painted as an aloof northeastern liberal that he will get killed. It will be 1988 all over again.

[isbister]

11. Re:

1. Edwards - Political experience factor
2. Clark - Political experience factor, Domestic issue questions
3. Dean- Political experience, Foreign Policy questions

[capriccio]

6. Try this

Gee, I don't know. Maybe electability has to do with Who Wins the Election!

10 months to grow up, people.

[not systems]

8. They want to reuse the 1988 script. n/t

[Edge]

9. I've been wondering that too.

I don't know why they say he's electable. I don't see it.

I think Edwards and Clark are more electable than Kerry.

[Minstrel Boy]

12. If Kerry gets the nomination,

the media will relentlessly hound him as dour, stiff and uncharismatic. Unfavourable comparisons will be made to the enthusiastic Dr Dean, and Bush's whores who derailed the Dean candidacy will be shameless about it.

[capriccio]

13. Dear Canada

The Right wing was doing all they could to prop up Dean today. Rich Lowry was peddling a bogus 6 point spread between Kerry and Dean; Drudge was riding Zogby's totally erroneous 3 point spread even after Zogby himself had abandoned it; and Rightwing Radio was doing all it could to hype up the Dean vote. And why, you ask. Because that's the opponent they want; that's who they've been preparing for...dreaming about. The voters, however, those who actually determine electability, are turning the tables on them.

[mdmc]

15. Welcome to DU, capriccio

You gotta serve somebody!
:dem:

[Feanorcurufinwe]

14. Maybe it's because Kerry beats Bush in the polls, and he won IA and NH

Kerry also leads the pack of Democratic contenders among registered voters as the candidate who would have a better chance of beating President George W. Bush if the election were held today. A Kerry-Bush match-up would have Kerry up by 49 percent to Bush's 46 percent. A Clark and Bush match-up would be a close race, with Bush at 48 percent and Clark at 47 percent. Bush would have an edge over Edwards (49% to 46%). Yet, with a plus or minus margin of error, these match-ups result in a statistical dead heat. And the President would beat Dean (50% to 45%) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (49% to 45%).
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040124/nysa010a_1.html

[mdmc]

16. I think that Kerry is electable

But I also think that there is a much better chance of a Southern democrat being able to carry more electoral votes than a candidate from the north east.

Barring that, the most popular candidate usually wins.

Kerry has the best hair, and is the tallest. www.dilbert.com

If Kerry wins, the Skull and Bones Org will have a fifth United States President (perhaps to complete their pentagon and usher in a new era) within their alumni.

[frustrated_lefty]

17. Kerry's going to be played as a

French-speaking, cheese-eating, surrender-monkey. He voted against Iraq in 91 and for it in 02/03. His vote wavers with the wind. By the way, didn't his wife who funded his campaign live in South Africa during Apartheid?

Ok, I'll get a warning for this, but how are Kerryites going to spin this?