Kucinich-weighted preference poll

[the other one]

I've created this poll to show just how electable Dennis Kucinich really is.

[saltpoint]

1. I'd like to see Dennis Kucinich earn the respect correspondent to his

good heart.

We're talking a lifelong public servant here, on the pro-people side of the ledger, definitely and applaudably.

Ted Koppel, then of ABC News, was very dismissive of Dennis Kucinich, which at our house is a gauge of Kucinich's real role in public discourse, namely that he and not Koppel is worthy of our attention.

If Dennis calls me today to ask about his campaign, I think I'd suggest that he run ads showing him standing next to key historical figures. Eugene Debs. Bob LaFollette. Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Sanger. There is something of them in Kucinich, or something in Kucinich of them -- however you want to look at it. Run the damn ads in prime time and force the people sitting on their complacent asses in front of AMERICAN IDOL to consider the weight of their citizenship.

Most U.S. 18-19 year olds graduate from high school with absolutely no idea who any of those people are, save for Lincoln, and they can't even place the correct century he served.

Dennis Kucinich could come at the electorate in a much more creative way. I know money talks and I know his campaign is usally strapped for funds. But if he could find a benefactor and change the presentation to include the historical paradigms that define him, I think he'd create a wider path to the nomination -- something akin to George McGovern's in 1972.

[Dawgs]

2. Nice try, but this poll is dumb; especially on DU.

You could have the same poll with any candidate and get similar results.

[the other one]

3. But Kucinich supporters are the one's

who claim that DK gets little support because supporters of the other candidates pass on him because they perceive him as unelectable. I just want to show Kucinich supporters that the people who favor other candidates REALLY DO support other candidates. Kucinich' support is what it is, and it does not suffer from any other candidates stealing his votes.

[ThomWV]

4. Gore - and Kucinich can remain a voice of reason in the Congress

[baldguy]

5. Vote with your heart in the primaries

Vote with your head in the general.