Primaries

[legalmoose]

MoveOn.org sent the results for their online primary. They're rather interesting:

BRAUN 7021 2.21%
DEAN 139360 43.87%
EDWARDS 10146 3.19%
GRAHAM 7113 2.24%
KERRY 49973 15.73%
KUCINICH 76000 23.93%
GEPHARDT 7755 2.44%
LIEBERMAN 6095 1.92%
SHARPTON 1677 0.53%
OTHER 6121 1.93%
UNDECIDED 6378 2.01%
317647 100.00%

Fascinating that Lieberman was so low, yet is touted as a party favorite by the DLC and other DNC officials. Hell, he was even lower than "Other" and "Undecided," two not-so-stellar candidates if you ask me. ;)

A shame Dean didn't get an outright majority, he could have used the cash. And yes, that's who I'm supporting, in case you hadn't guessed.

Comments

[gregmce.livejournal.com]

I could be utterly wrong--lord knows it's happened before--but isn't there supposed to now be run-offs until one candidate gets over 50% and the money? I suppose anything could happen, but I'll bet Dean gets it. I can no longer find any such claim and I'm starting to wonder if I hallucinated it.

[legalmoose]

I think you hallucinated it. :)

Hallucinations

[gregmce.livejournal.com]

They're becoming more and more vivid these days. :)

(I did hallucinate in June last year that people were running across the Beltway while I was in the passenger seat of a car driving through it around 3am. Scared the living daylights out of me.)

I did a little more searching and it did say that there might be another MoveOn.org primary down the line, so that's something, I guess.

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

Wow, whoever "317647" is, he's on fire!

Odd name, though. Is he some sort of robot politician prototype?

I just got the MoveOn results myself. It really is too bad about Dean. He completely trashed the competition, which shows that if nothing else he can mobilize the people a lot more effectively than anyone else around. He really makes people passionate-- not something you can say about Gore, and Gore managed to pick up a good 50% of the vote last time around. Hell, I've already donated $25 to his campaign, and I'm not normally one for contributions.

Now he just needs to hire someone to groom him for prime time.

[legalmoose]

Oh, lord, tell me about it (need for grooming). There are times when I just want to smack him and tell him to learn when enough is enough.

That being said, I still favor him over the others.