[lbo-talk] Re: Alternative polls (and a warning on polls) on retropoll.org

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Andrei wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>He's been in all the televised debates so far. He doesn't get much 
>press coverage other than that, but that's still more exposure than 
>Nader got in 2000.
>
>Doug

Once Kucinich, Sharpton, and Moseley Braun get trounced in the early 
primaries and quit campaigning, there will be only shamelessly 
centrist voices -- with some outright hawkish stances, as the 
remaining candidates will increasingly pitch to the right, as soon as 
they believe they have already bagged the loyal opposition who have 
nowhere else to go -- in the televised debates.
-- 
Yoshie

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