[lbo-talk] David Ehrenstein on Obama

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 23 14:26:01 PDT 2007


On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> Dennis Kucinich will be on the ballot in the DP caucuses and
> primaries, but most "anti-war" DP voters won't vote for him. I
> conclude that they don't have the courage of their convictions.

You make it sound like a moral failing, or some sort of other personal defect. Most people sympathetic with Kucinich's politics think he doesn't have a prayer - not merely of winning, but even scoring above 5%. Yes, that's self-fulfilling, but unlike a lot of leftists, many voters don't think of the ballot as a place to make a statement, but as a way of supporting someone with a chance to win. Until you can change that perception, which means changing reality to at least some degree, what you see as individual moral failings will keep repeating themselves.

Doug



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