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[stephenissocool]

86% Dennis Kucinich
85% Mike Gravel
81% Chris Dodd
81% Barack Obama
78% John Edwards
76% Hillary Clinton
75% Joe Biden
72% Bill Richardson
41% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
34% Ron Paul
27% Mitt Romney
26% Mike Huckabee
18% Tom Tancredo
16% Fred Thompson

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Comments

[indiepop]

You can't really accuse Hillary of doing anything in Florida that the others haven't. All of their names are on the ballot, all of them have been here to raise money, and all of their spouses are here constantly.

As a Floridian it pisses me off that the forth biggest state in the country gets ignored and peanilized by the Democrats for something our Republican governor and state legislature did.

Depending on how Florida is treated at the convention with our delegates I know A LOT of Democrats here who are saying that they will vote for an independent (Bloomberg or Paul) if the Democrats do not reverse their decision and seat our delegates. This could really end up being the worst decision the DNC has ever made come the general election.

[stephenissocool]

I wouldn't be able to do something like that if I was in their shoes. Call me idealistic, but I have these grand visions of party unity, yada yada yada.

I do, however, think the DNC should have treated Florida differently than Michigan. The truth of the matter is that the DNC was in between a rock and a hard place: they had already said they would punish early voting states and had to stick to their word. I think it's a mistake on both the DNC's and Florida's part. Didn't the Republicans get half their delegates taken away from the RNC? It seems like everyone in Florida should have gotten together and avoided the mess in the first place.

Keep in mind I am not condoning the actions of the DNC. But I think Democrats need to think a bit bigger than a relatively petty squabble over delegates. I think if Democrats looked at Bloomberg's and Paul's stance on issues, they would realize how off-base they were.

[indiepop]

Personally I think the DNC and Republican party could both think a little bit larger than to say that only 2 rural white protestant states, one mixed conservative black and white state, and one latino state have some sort of God ordained right to have so much say so as to who gets to be president. Not to mention pretty much eliminating the chance for any true progressive like say Kucinich from ever having a chance to get close to the nomination.

The problem with the country now is how bland and similar the ultimate candidates from both parties are.

[anonymous]

There's only one solution: a nationwide primary. I have no idea why we aren't doing that anyway. Probably the same reason as why we haven't slaughtered the Electoral College (abolishing it would be too good for it). The only thing Governor Blow-job-o-vich here in Illinois has done decently was to get our primaries moved up to Super Tuesday (which is so totally funny -- the state Congress did it to help Obama, but Hillary's got just as much of a background here as he does, if not more; go figure), and since it's now 20-something states that vote on Super Tuesday, just be done with it and make it a national primary.

-Kelly

[stephenissocool]

I can already see New Hampshire and Iowa aiming their missiles at your house. ;) (And before you think that they don't have any, remember they are old and white. And some of them are rich. That almost always means missiles.)