Obama 37.53; Edwards 29.88; Clinton 29.41
Huckabee 34; Romney 25; Thompson 14; McCain 13%; Paul 10%

I wish Obama the best of luck from now on, but I am still not sure who is best. He will need to stand up under closer scrutiny now, and must show more defining substance. Winning this means being more than boy wonder now.

As for Huckabee, how interesting. See what Andrew Sullivan has to say about all that, at http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.

The complexity of taking a page of Google results and running a character match on it ranges from using your browser’s ‘find’ function with “match case” on, to writing your own search that uses Google for its first-order results…

(PS: anyone interested in websearching should know about Fravia – so now you you do “,)

I will look into regex but don’t think that vitiates my complaint.

What were you thinking? I know there’s a temptation to say to yourself, “But *they* couldn’t really be that stupid/lazy/unconcerned, so” … and then you contrive a kludgey rationalization for what the big boys do. They count on people doing that, just so they can get away with often being stupid/lazy/unconcerned.

Have you tried searching your phrase, then running the results through a regex? (the link is Wikipedia – I know, but sometimes there just isn’t a better reference to hand).

(Hey, are you a computer type? People pick on Microsoft for this and that, and me too for e.g. not even having a good way to print lists of files from directories, but how can Google get away with not having, IIUC, a case-sensitive search? (And direct character string search) It is often so inconvenient.

Anyway, Obama seems far too inexperienced (as his relatively meager record and campaign missteps show) to be President at this point in his career.

I’m also disturbed by how much his campaign is about how wonderful and “different” he is personally, rather than about his policies. IMO, a candidate’s policies are the best guide to their character.

While there are things I don’t like about Hillary, I think we need someone who will be able to deal with the firestorm of criticism that will come from the right, and who knows how to get things done in the Washington we have, not the one we wished we had.

We have one; it’s y’all…

I am in favor of all your ideas for change.

You know the really sad part? The only ‘change’ in that list is Kyoto. Everything else is attempting to put the situation back the way Clinton left it.
(Mentioning him… HOW did you impeach him for a blowjob when the current monkey seems untouchable?)

Having said that, I appreciate that impeachment is a near impossibility. The prosecuting entities are complicit in the crimes of Bush. Further, the media that would report on impeachment proceedings iare also complicit in Bush’s crimes by supporting the blatant lies about WMDs and by failure to investigate and report on dozens of other Bush lies that daily lead us closer to our destruction.

There is hope though that Bush et al. will be prosecuted sometime after they leave office. If so, I hope they will be tried in the U.S. rather than in the International Criminal Court. I would like to see death penalties imposed on the principals.

I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here: I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs. I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey wait a minute, there’s one guy holding up both puppets!

On your second point: ‘only’ nothing will convince us of your good faith. Impeaching Bush and Cheney would be a start. Repealing all of the laws passed gathering power to the President would be a start. Rebuilding New Orleans or otherwise taking care of the refugees would be a start. Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol would be a start. Reining in the CIA would be a start. Getting your troops home would be a start. Opening the records of the rendition flights and the secret torture bases would be a start. Closing Guantanamo would be a start.
There are more important and more urgent things on that list than impeaching the previous administration. Impeaching the current administration would be good, as it’s about the only thing on that list Congress can actually do at the moment, but once Bush and the rest are out of office there’s a lot more needs doing faster.

That list of candidates was selected by the corporate plutocracy, the same gangsters who profit from the endless state of warfare and who finance the individual campaigns. If you want to know who the real terrorists are, look at the campaign donor lists.

The fact that unnamed candidates can command a quarter of the vote testifies to the illegitimacy of the candidate list in a democracy and gives the lie to the idea that Kucinich is unelectable. If Kucinich or Paul were allowed just half the tv coverage that other corporate they’d be leading the polls. Their ideas are truly more in the mainstream than any of the right winger lists, but the voters don’t know it. Of course iff an elected candidate does not toe the line, he’ll be killed, the same as Carnahan and Wellstone. It’s a question of survivability, not electability.

IF you accept the corporate proffered candidates as comprising a legitimate election, then you are propping up a Potemkin democracy; you’re playing the role of those whom Joseph Stalin called useful idiots.

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“If nothing else, electing Barack Obama would be seen by the rest of the world as a huge shift in the attitude and quality of people of the United States.” -spyder

Nuh, uh, spyder. Only impeachment can begin to restore the U,S, to a respected role in world affairs. After supporting both sides of the Iran-Iraq war for a decade during which millions were killed, then inflicting the hundreds of thousands of deaths of which Madeline Albright was so sanguine, and finally killing another 1.2 million and destroying the infrastructure and the institutions of a society – only impeachment and a total repudiation of the Republican Party will make any impression at all on a disgusted and angry world.

Impeachment is also essential for restoring decency in the U.S. Impeachment and the subsequent trial make a story that cannot be ignored or spun by corporate media, It’s essential that the story of how Americans were deceived and emotionally manipulated into acquiescing monstrous crimes must be discussed daily on television for a long time in order educate Americans and to inform the world that there are decent people in the U.S. still.

Impeach. Convict. Punish.

If nothing else, electing Barack Obama would be seen by the rest of the world as a huge shift in the attitude and quality of people of the United States. With just one such election, the rest of the world would perceive a US willing to admit its faults, redirect its focus, recommit itself to human rights, draw down its military presence, and so forth– simply because we had the temerity to elect an African American.

Um… No, it wouldn’t . We would, I believe, breathe a huge sigh of relief. And then go back to waiting to see who gets fucked next.
To show us you’re willing to admit your faults, redirect focus, recommit, etc, etc, your next President will have to DO something. Your current government has spent the last of our political goodwill.

(Irish, by the way).

Nicole – ” …this poll of almost all Democrats, who are mostly male.” Huh?

we really need a 2nd person plural in English!

We have one:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/y%27all

If nothing else, electing Barack Obama would be seen by the rest of the world as a huge shift in the attitude and quality of people of the United States. With just one such election, the rest of the world would perceive a US willing to admit its faults, redirect its focus, recommit itself to human rights, draw down its military presence, and so forth– simply because we had the temerity to elect an African American.