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Who Did You Get for as your First Choice?

Mike Gravel	25%	[ 2 ]
Fred Thompson	0%	[ 0 ]
Mike Huckabee	0%	[ 0 ]
Mitt Romney	13%	[ 1 ]
Ron Paul	13%	[ 1 ]
John Edwards	25%	[ 2 ]
Chris Dodd	0%	[ 0 ]
Rudy Guliani	13%	[ 1 ]
Barack Obama	0%	[ 0 ]
Sam Brownback	0%	[ 0 ]
Duncan Hunter	0%	[ 0 ]
Tom Tancredo	0%	[ 0 ]
Joe Biden	13%	[ 1 ]
Bill Richardson	0%	[ 0 ]
Hillary Clinton	0%	[ 0 ]

Total votes : 8

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23 Feb 2008, 12:51 am

Match O Matic FOR PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY

My three was
3. Ron Paul ( I am shocked! who knew!?!)
2. Dennis Kucinich ( and I am almost as shocked!)
1. and some how I knew Mike Gravel

so. . if you ask me about the people still in the race, I am not even close!

Merle

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23 Feb 2008, 1:27 am

1. Dennis Kucinich
2. Duncan Hunter
3. Chris Dodd

Meh... >_< Further evidence that I should not bother voting. Not only have these guys dropped out, my top match only scores 5 out of 11 and I'd rather have a gravel milkshake than vote for the other two.

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23 Feb 2008, 6:06 am

I got the same list you did, Merle, though Gravel was 2 and Kucinich was 1. But the second item under the health care, asking about priorities, only included answers that left insurance companies in the picture. I'd eliminate them entirely, removing them once and for all. The green visor boys in the back room, playing both sides (service providers and consumers) against the middle and laughing all the way to the bank, can go find another planet to play in. National health care, yes. But not via private insurance companies. We don't need the vampires. On marriage, I'd just abolish it. It's a weird soup of legal flotsam and jetsam, anyway, gets the gov't into acts of sex, and mixes religion and state in too many folks' minds besides. Taxes? Tax on wealth, not income. Best way to fight global warming? Planetary-wide cap on population -- no more freedom to breed at will for anyone. Everything else targets a symptom, rather than the core problem. None of these options showed.

Yeah. I'm a radical.

Jon

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23 Feb 2008, 1:10 pm

jonk wrote:

Jon, Jon. . . . so few of my own pet ideas for government were not included in the questionaire. remember, it was made up of only the people that were RUNNING for prez, not what we WANTED to have run.

radical is good.

Merle

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23 Feb 2008, 4:39 pm

sinsboldly wrote:

jonk wrote:

Yes, I clearly noted that the questions were generated only from data gathered from actual candidates' positions and from nothing else, at all. That fact stood out like a sore thumb. I just figured I'd use the chance to post some of my own thoughts, as well. You gave me the excuse!

Jon

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23 Feb 2008, 8:08 pm

1-Mitt Romney
2-Mike Huckabee
3-Tom Tancredo

I got all the drop-outs, I think I'll stick to primes instead of primaries.... :roll:

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24 Feb 2008, 12:11 am

I thought I'll give it a go and this is what I ended up with:

1. Dennis Kucinich
2. Mike Gravel
3. Bill Richardson.

I have not got much of a clue about them.

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24 Feb 2008, 12:27 am

richie wrote:

1-Mitt Romney
2-Mike Huckabee
3-Tom Tancredo

I got all the drop-outs, I think I'll stick to primes instead of primaries.... :roll:

I love your dry wit! My great grandfather was Pennsylvania Dutch and I can hear it in your cadences of thought.

Merle

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25 Feb 2008, 1:13 am

Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Ron Paul

I think that Ron Paul is getting a collection of Timothy McVay type followers,

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25 Feb 2008, 5:32 am

1. Dennis Kucinich
2. Mike Gravel
3. Rudy Giuliani?

This poll has no "Dennis Kucinich" option.

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25 Feb 2008, 5:47 am

matt wrote:

1. Dennis Kucinich
2. Mike Gravel
3. Rudy Giuliani?

This poll has no "Dennis Kucinich" option.

And there's no John McCain option either.

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25 Feb 2008, 5:48 am

I got Gravel, Kucinich, and Biden.

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25 Feb 2008, 11:02 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

matt wrote:

1. Dennis Kucinich
2. Mike Gravel
3. Rudy Giuliani?

This poll has no "Dennis Kucinich" option.

And there's no John McCain option either.

yes, there is a John McCain option, Tim Tex. . . when I was making other choices to see what it would register, I got ol' John for my second choice, between Mike Gravel and Dennis Kuchinich!

imagine THAT!

Merle

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25 Feb 2008, 11:31 am

According to the poll, mine were:

1- Mike Gravel

2 - Dennis Kucinich (dropped out)

3 - Barack Obama

Now, out here in the real world, I tend to agree more with Obama's positions than anyone else's, especially the parts where he's willing to come to compromises in order to get legislation passed (for instance, all those times cited when he "voted for funding the Iraq War"? Check the record - in each case, he first helped defeat one or more even-more-egregious bills, while recognizing that the money had already been spent, and needed to be funded, whether one agrees with the war or not). However, some of the questions, as noted above, did not offer options with which I could agree readily (notably the questions on immigration, taxation, and desirable experience levels), so this may have skewed the results somewhat...

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