Who would you vote for?

of this list so far, john kerry but if kucinich was the front runner i would love it..... i think he is great!!!

I haven't thought much about it. I haven't really been keeping track of the candidates, so at this point, I don't know enough about any of them to make a decision.

I need another year of newspaper headlines, mud slinging, accusations and false advertising to make my mind up...

I don't know enough about the candidates to pick, but Brian would advise me Kucinich.

Bush - no, because of tax cuts and deficit spending (fiscally irresponsible), plus he plays the fear card too much and has little concern for civil liberties (way too Orwellian).
Kerry - maybe, I like that he went to Vietnam, but I don't know if he can win (personally is a bit mild and him being from the northeast could mean southerners will not vote for him)
Dean - Iowa screech = end of career (just kidding). I like what he stands for but he's too radical, too liberal. He can't win, so he's poison to vote for.
Edwards - seems like a good mix and is my pick at this point.
Lieberman - I hold him responsible for much of the accounting scandals. He actively blocked accounting regulation in the early 90's which I believe would have prevented much of the trouble we had in the last few years.
Clark - maybe... though hasn't really made his mark yet, seems kind of mild and not really standing for much

George W. Bush, even though his immigration ideas are nuts. Considering everything that happened on 9/11 and the fact that they've caught so many Al Quada people is a credit. And the fallacy of "tax cuts for the rich" is stupid. I benefited from his tax cuts and we don't even bring in $50K.

Howard Dean has some sort of mental problem. He scares me.
I don't trust Clark.
If anyone thinks John Kerry's for the "average Joe" that's a joke. His wife, Theresa Heinz-Kerry is heir to the Heinz Ketchup fortune. And in his speech after the State of the Union Tuesday I was wondering if he was watching the same one I did. He really didn't make any sense.
I don't know much about John Edwards, except that he sees dead people (LOL)

Joe Lieberman would be the only one I could vote for in good conscience.

I like John Edwards best I think, but he's a bit young and inexperienced. I'd really like to see him as vice-president for a term or two and then I think he'd be an ideal President. I'm not sure who I'd vote for this time around - I thought Howard Dean was ok, but since his "I have a scream" speech..... John Kerry just seems a bit nondescript, but I suppose he's ok. I'd vote for one of those three but I suppose John Edwards is my first choice, despite my reservations. I wouldn't vote for any of the others, unless another democrat won the primary - then I'd just vote against Bush.

Which is all rather moot, since I can't vote in US elections!!! Never mind, Edwards for President!!!

John Edwards sees dead people? I've been trying to follow the lead-up to the US elections as well as I can, but largely based on UK news sites. Clearly I'm missing some of the gossip!!!

John Edwards!

Yay!
Don't forget to vote in the primary on Tuesday! (If you're a registered Democrat, that is.)

Yay Edwards!
He's not really that young--he's 50, which is older than Clinton and JFK were when they were elected.

He's 50???!! I'm sure I read a report which said he wasn't 40 yet. He doesn't look it. Now I'm worried about him, has he been hitting the botox?

I don't know what their policies are

I'm not sure yet but definitely someone other than Bush! I would have to hear more about each one's beliefs, etc. before I'd be able to get the least bit enthusiastic about a politician! I am likely to go for a Green party guy or a Libertarian.

I'm not registered... (sorry), I just don't want to get harassed by any party.
It is pretty interesting living in NH during an presidential election. I've gotten 10-20 calls from political organizations (mostly Lieberman's people) in the last month. I usually don't answer (thank you, caller-id). or I hang-up when they identify, but I did answer one recently from Kerry's people, they said they wanted to ask just one question, so I said OK. They asked who I would vote for, I told them Edwards.

Yup, he's fifty. Most people think he's much younger than he is. It really irritates his wife, who is two or three years older than he is, and looks at least a little more her age, if not fully so.

That's understandable. I haven't gotten calls from anyone, except someone from the Edwards office because I want to volunteer for the campaign. I guess New Hampshire has more polling and phone-campaigning because it's an important primary. I'd be happy for them to call me and ask me poll-type questions, though! I like getting polled.

Poor woman! Though if he ends up as President, she'll have to get used to being upstaged by him

I don't get the sense she *really* minds that much!

Good, she'd have to be a long way from my idea of a good First Lady if she really was

Dennis Kucinich. I've been volunteering with his campaign since last year.

I don't like any of them. I'd vote for someone who's woman. As of yesterday, I am a feminist.

Glassa appaers to be thinking of a different John Edwards. There is no relation between Candidate Edwards and Sci-Fi Channel mainstay Edwards. One is a Senator, one is a hack who takes advantage of people who beelive he can commune with the deceased. I didn't read Glassa'a post (filtered) that you rpelied to, but my guess is he's simply horribly confused.

Bush. The only other one that I find a little appealing is Lieberman (although I don't know much about him). Dean is an Ass Clown.

Bush? So you like AWOL liars who ruined the state of Texas and plan to take those same failures nationwide?

No I said I like Bush.

Hi Brian.

Exactly. An AWOL (The Boston Globe, Washington Post, and others have reported the fact that Bush went AWOL from the National Guard for over a year) liar (On Polish National TV "We have found the Wepaons of Mass Destruction!" In the 200 cmapaign "I have never been arrested."). You must be thinking of someone else, beucase Bush is defiantely all of the things I said, and you said you like him. Erego...

As for ruining Texas, check out the books Shrub and Bushwhacked by Molly Ivins, a Texan with solid journalistic credentials.

George W. Bush. Although I never paid any attention to any of the other candidates, I think Bush is still the best man for the job.

Lack of info at this point, but it would NOT be Bush

At this point, I haven't decided. I need to research much more on these potential candidates before I make my decision and when I decide, that will be nobody's business but my own.

Whoever is in office will fudge up in someone's eyes. As long as there is some leadership that doesn't have an itchy nuclear trigger finger, I'm happy. Go Canada!

Oh my word, you mean like "Crossing Over With John Edwards"? I've seen bits of that - he looks like the biggest faker ever to me. BTW, I think Glassa was joking, I doubt she'd really get the two confused - she's no fool!

It would be really helpful if Americans creating surveys about US politics also included the PARTY rather than the individuals. All I know is Bush is Republican, Kerry (the guy with the hair) is Democrat and I wouldn't vote for either major party. Lieberman I know is that whining Woody Allen type. I don't know what party he is in.

I'm pretty sure they're all Democrats bar Bush. Looks like Bill only included people who had a vague chance of winning (so no Al Sharpton or that guy that Brian supports - Kucinich?) so no point putting anyone from another party on.

I'm surprised Bush is currently the frontrunner on an *SC* survey. If a Democrat can't win in a poll on this site, then they haven't a hope of beating Bush in the real thing!

Yeah really.

He is a big faker. Even I, the open-minded one, can see that. The first and most obvious clue to this is the fact that Edwards used to work as someone who debunked phony psychics. If anyone would know all the tricks...

It just looks like he's a really bad actor....

I will choose whoever has a better chance of wining against Dubya. If it weren't for Dubya, I wouldn't be registering to vote for the first time in my 27 years.

You have been officially disowned for that comment.. don't be surprised if you find that your tires have gone flat on election day

Well, I think the reason Bush is on top is that the democrats are still splitting the vote. At the moment, "someone other than Bush" is one vote behind Bush himself...

Of course! I should have realised that

I will help flatten them!!! I hate Bush he is a dipwad

baby, The voices in my head tell me that you hate Bush!!! a ha ha ha ha

Yes, please tell him I was joking!!!! I thought that was clear.
<---slaps cheeks, like in Home Alone

Well, just remember that in April of 1992, Bill Clinton was way the fudge behind George the Elected. It's only January right now.

Martin Koppel

I would pick George Bush. Some people do not truly appreciate what he is doing for our country.

I just found out today (while campaigning for Edwards in southern New Hampshire) that the NH Democratic primary is open to independents, and also that you can register at the primary. So you can go to the polls Tuesday and vote for Edwards!

More like TO our country. If it were a Democrat pulling that crap, his ass would be toast by now.

Yes... I heard that too, I'm already planning to go. I heard about it on NBC Nightly News... they were doing a report from downtown Lebanon (wow! ...well, I was excited). Though, I heard something disturbing about Edwards. Apparently, he's not very tall. That could make it tough for him to win.

You know what I say everytime some schmuck says Kucincih is too short to be President (what I find funny is that this is usually their BEST argument!)? I say, "well if being tall is all it takes then why isn't Al Gore President? Oh, wait, he is!"

He's not that tall, but he's not a midget or anything, either. If you've watched any of the debates, you can see that he's sort of mid-height among the candidates. Kerry's pretty tall, and Kucinich is pretty short, and the rest of them are somewhere in the middle.

There aren't any communist candidates I'm familiar with, so I'll vote for Edwards if he wins the Dem. primaries. If not, I guess whoever wins it. Anybody but Bush! Kerry seems like a good choice, though, if Edwards doesn't make it.

I'm sad that Gephardt dropped out. Of the sell-out Democrats he was the one who sold out the least (he still had solid ties with labor rights groups). I hope whoever gets the nom offers him the VP spot.

fortunately, Edwards isn't an Irkan...

hm... he could be 6' ... this is pretty unofficial, but I found it on the web:
John Kerry, who stands in at about 6´4´´ (presumably including the hair). Going down the line is Dick Gephardt at 6´1´´, then John Edwards at about 6´ even. Al Sharpton measures up at about 5´11´´, Wesley Clark 5’10”, Howard Dean about 5´9´´, Joe Lieberman 5´8´´, Dennis Kucinich 5´7´´ and, finally, Carol Moseley Braun at, we’ll say, 5´4´´.

6' is pretty good! He looked a tiny bit shorter than that to me, but I didn't get that close and I'm also a really bad judge of height.

I'm so excited to see how well Edwards is doing here!
I was just up in New Hampshire volunteering for his campaign this weekend, and while there was a lot of good response, Kerry and Dean are definitely pulling higher numbers in the polls. So all you Edwards people, make sure you get out and vote for him in your state's primary if you can!! He needs your support!

If only I could! The US presidential election is so much more fun than our general election. We don't get to elect one person to govern the whole country, just an MP for our local area. My MP covers about a fifth or sixth of Sheffield, and that's it.

I always thought you voted for a party, but I guess voting for an MP would be the same thing. The party with the most MPs then has the PM, right? So in a sense you're voting for one person, although you don't directly vote for her/him. Does the party choose their leader? I know that's how it works in other countries with a parliamentary system.

As good as you are at twisting peoples words and misleading you really ought to run for office.

I think we vote for the candidate, who belongs to a particular party. Most people won't know who they are voting for, just which party. But I'm not sure, I've not had the opportunity to vote properly yet. And then the PM is traditionally the leader of the party with the most seats (but doesn't have to be - it's up to the Queen). The main political parties all have members voting for the leader, but the Conservatives only recently stopped having a "magic circle" of a few senior officials choose their leader. But to be a member of a party, you have to pay membership fees - it isn't like you can just register.

How often are there Parliamentary elections?

They have to be held after 5 years, but it's up to the government when they want to advise the Queen to hold one within that time. If they think they have a better chance of winning 4 years in, then the election will be held then. I don't think less than 4 years is very common. I think there's a way that Parliament can force an election too, but that doesn't happen very often since the party with the majority almost always forms the government.

In the Israeli parliamentary system, a forced election can happen if there's a vote of no confidence for a coalition government. But I think that requires that no party is holding the majority at the time.

I like Bush. I don't know what he did or did not do in Texas. What he did in the past does not matter. Clinton had many questions in his past and it didn't matter then. The problem with the democratic candidates is they are too liberal.

I still like Bush.

The voices in your head have benn smoking something. I like Bush.

My problem w/ Bush's past in Texas is the fact that he had so many people executed while he was governor. That certainly matters in the here and now even if his drunk-driving and crack smoking (or whatever) don't.

TOO Liberal? My gripe is that, with the exceptions of Kucinich and Sharpton, they aren't liberal enough!

The best way to stop executions is to not break the laws that have execution as a penalty.

I think you are purposely being an extreme leftist to get people to reply to you.

If crime was the only factor affecting who and who does not get put to death, the world would be a much different place.

No, I'm just being me. Calling me an extreme lefty is kinda funny seeing as my grandma doesn't think I'm liberal enough.

Jean Chretien (Sniff, I miss him.)

There are two Lieberman and Clark... Kerry looks like he isnt being true to him self. Bush well he has already ruined things and the others i dont know much about them nor do i care.

Yes it would.

I can't imagine anyone being more to the left than you. I see where your beliefs are founded.

I'd write in Marilyn Manson

He has a great interview in "Bowling for Columbine", I just saw that movie...
"fear and consumption"

Sue bought me the DVD. It's still in the wrapper
I'll get around to watching it sooooon, I hope.

I'm interested in learning more about what he has to say, but I'm not so much into the style of his music. Is there a good book or something about him and his philosophy? ,...maybe I should just read all his lyrics.

The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell by Marilyn Manson with Neil Strauss

This is not a good list of candidates. It's sad and pathetic how horrible all these politicians are. But I think Wesley Clark would have to be the worst. He has never held an elected position in his life! Why does he think he can be President? Clark's head is the size of a blimp. I also think he's a loser for hanging around the likes of "Mr. Hate white folks" Jesse Jackson.

The reason he's never held public ofice before is becuase he was too busy being a FOUR STAR GENERAL!