> overqualified wrote:
>
> >On this site U find alternative polls and a critique of usual opinion polls
> >(like the factual one that about 70% of interviewed in any
> >poll are "not respondent").
>
> These results are a bit hard to believe if you spend any time talking
> to average Americans, or look at the results of elections. Why, for
> example, aren't Kucinich and Sharpton attracting five or ten times
> the support they actually are?
Well, in the case of Kucinich I think it's because average Americans don't seem to even know he's one of the candidates. And that's probably cuz they're getting their information about who's running from the mainstream media which seems to have decided early on, for whatever reason, that Dean should get the nomination and that Kucinich is not a serious candidate. Even the majority of my friends, who are all liberals in their late 20s or early 30s, hadn't heard of him when I first mentioned him.
I think this whole thing about how Kucinich can't win/is not electable will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. I've heard so many people say those things, even though they agree with his views, that it makes me think he would actually have a much better chance if all those people supported him instead of making all these assumptions about what OTHERS think or how they might vote.
- Andrei