If the media didn’t lie, you would know that you like Kucinich

CLEVELAND, OH – In the political equivalent of a “blind taste test” taken by more than 67,000 participants [and more by the hour], an independent website surveying public attitudes on various issues is reporting that Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is the first choice of a phenomenal 53% of respondents.

No other candidate, Democrat or Republican, even reaches double digits.

The website (http://www.dehp.net/candidate/ ) has been asking respondents to express and rank their opinions on 25 different issues – the war in Iraq, health care, the environment, Patriot Act, etc. — that have been raised and debated among the Presidential candidates in both parties. Those taking the survey vote only on the issues, not for or against any individual candidate. The 67,000-plus responses were then correlated with the positions of all of the candidates as reported on www.2decide.com/table.htm . The results are here: http://www.dehp.net/candidate/stats.php

As of this morning (the survey is recalculated every five minutes), more than 35,600 respondents were “in sync” with Kucinich on the issues. Democratic front-runner Senator Hillary Clinton was the first-place choice of only about 2,400 respondents (3.6%). Other leading candidates fared even worse: Senator Barack Obama (3%), and former Senator John Edwards (1.3%)

“When people vote exclusively on the issues that are important to them, without being influenced by name recognition, celebrity, or millions of dollars in advertising, Congressman Kucinich wins in a landslide,” his campaign said today.

(Friday, August 03, 2007: a.m. results http://www.dehp.net/candidate/stats.php

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Do any of you remember the fixation characters in Fahrenheit 451 had on the appearance of their political candidates? I can’t say Bradbury was far off when he wrote that after seeing this peice by Kucinich supporters.

How democratic is a nation that elects its REPRESENTATIVES based on physical characteristics, name recognition and Pavlovian adherence to acceptable estabishment principles and policies? Its not.

Let’s move in the right direction (that’d be a 180 in our case) and select a candidate that not only represents our views, ideas and needs but is willing to work with the world instead of bombing every country who looks at us the wrong way (with our foreign policy track record* I can’t believe anyone can still meet our eyes without blushing).

Kucinich has proven through all of his civil service that he is a principled candidate who who may only be 5′07 but is a giant to the workers, injured, incarcerated and impoverished that he stands up for.

I am going to register as a Democrat now so I can vote in the primary and I hope anyone who reads this who wants more than a change of FACE at the White House does the same.

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* For further information on America’s foreign policy (overt and covert) since WWII please refer to the work of William Blum. Two noteworthy peices are Killing Hope and Rogue State- A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower (which I am currently reading and am blown away by)

~ by Brad on August 10, 2007.