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LA-based Pajamas Media hates their poll so much that recently it had to remove its winners so that the politicians that they're rooting for will have a chance.
PJ Media, who has had a tragic history of fuckups, embarrassments, and going nowhere despite raising millions of dollars, have been holding online straw polls for months. After results of a poll that started the week of September 16th were tallied, anti-war Democratic presidential nominee Dennis Kucinich's 132 votes were good enough to earn him the "win" out of lefty hopefuls, and anti-war Republican prez nom Ron Paul collected 512 votes or 61% of the nods for righties.
Note: No tally for Mike Gravel
So...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Mike+Gravel+poll+numbers
http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/candidates/Mike-Gravel.html
Unless you are a political junkie who tapes local government proceedings while at work or at least faithfully checks in with USA Election Polls – the site that compiles presidential polling data from the major and some minor outlets for your convenience – you probably do not even know who Mike Gravel is or what he has to do with the 2008 presidential election. The former state senator from Alaska is wooing voters for the democratic nomination.
His campaign coffers are precariously empty, and his stances may not make him too popular with the mainstream democratic constituency. He is in favor of an immediate and complete withdrawal from Iraq, supports a national sales tax and the eradication of the IRS, and he seeks to institute a direct democracy. Yet in spite of his vociferous campaigning, he failed to become a media darling and it took raucous complaining to even get invited to the televised debates.
Yet the USA Election Polls site shows that even his television appearances do not appear to have turned popular opinion in his favor. Sure, he shook up the other candidates and in many ways became to Hillary Clinton what Ron Paul is to Rudy Giuliani – a stalking horse. Single digit polls all the way around may shake the faith of some in this candidate for the democratic nod, but Mr. Gravel is far from giving up on his dreams. Is he crazy like a fox and has an ace up his sleeve or is simply a barking moon-bat?
ABC News Debate - Unfair for Kucinich and Gravel
August 23, 2007
Candidate
Words
% of Total
Barack Obama
2462
19.8%
Hillary Clinton
2399
19.3%
John Edwards
1644
13.2%
Joe Biden
1415
11.4%
Bill Richardson
1319
10.6%
Chris Dodd
1230
9.9%
Dennis Kucinich
1059
8.5%
Mike Gravel
896
7.2%
We took a look at the entire ABC News Debate transcript from 8/19, parsed the file, and counted how many words each of the candidates were able to speak. The two candidates with the least amount of words were Kucinich and Gravel. Obama and Clinton as you would expect dominated in how many words they were able to speak.
The total number of words spoken at the debate was 14,528. Stephanopoulos spoke 1907 words and Yepsen spoke 197 so a total of 12,424 words
If you want to know who the POWERS that be fear; look.
Use your own brain.
Last edited on Tue Oct 2nd, 2007 03:37 pm by Joe Kelley