presidential stuff

[bafleyanne]

Who should you vote for in 2004?

Your Results:

1.Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (100%)

2.Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (94%)

3.Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (92%)

4.Leahy, Patrick Senator, Vermont - Democrat (89%)

5.Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol IL - Democrat (89%)

6.Green Party Candidate (87%)

7.Feingold, Senator Russ, WI - Democrat (86%)

8.Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (85%)

9.Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (82%)

10.Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (81%)

11.Biden, Senator Joe, DE - Democrat (79%)

12.Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (75%)

13.Libertarian Candidate (75%)

14.Graham, Senator Bob, FL - Democrat (71%)

15.Jackson, Cong. Jesse Jr., IL - Democrat (68%)

16.Bradley, Former Senator Bill NJ - Democrat (58%)

17.Kaptur, Cong. Marcy, OH - Democrat (55%)

18.Socialist Candidate (53%)

19.Feinstein, Senator Dianne, CA - Democrat (53%)

20.Buchanan, Patrick J. — Reform/Republican (30%)

21.Hagelin, John - Natural Law (25%)

22.Bush, George W. - US President (21%)

23.McCain, Senator John, AZ- Republican (17%)

24.Phillips, Howard - Constitution (13%)

25.Vilsack, Governor. Tom IA - Democrat (7%)

26.Clark, Retired Army General Wesley K "Wes" Arkansas - Democrat (-7%)

27.LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (-9%)

Comments

[cvantien.livejournal.com]

Are you guys seriously already gearing up for another election? It doesn't seem like it's been 2.5 years already since the last one. But then it's looking more likely that we'll be having our Federal election early (ours aren't scheduled like yours, our terms are no less than 2.5 years, no more than 4 years so they can be called when it's politically expedient) so I guess our PM wants to get in before the US President runs the risk of being voted out.

[bafleyanne.livejournal.com]

We'll be having an election in November of 2004. But our primaries start fairly soon, and most of the candidates are gearing up for that. I don't know how things work in Aussie-land, but here the primary elections happen with all candidates, and then the two big parties pick their candidate and only those (plus the candidates for other smaller parties, of course) are on the ballot. Of course you can write in other people. :)

[cvantien.livejournal.com]

There was a big discussion about this in misc.kids about a month ago, but I didn't realise that primaries start so far out from the election. Our political parties work differently, if you want to become a member of the party you then have the right to vote in the primaries but because everyone has to be enrolled to vote and then actually vote in State and Federal elections it would be unrealistic to have the entire voting public vote in primaries. The candidates are picked internally, and mostly the only people who join the political parties and are thus eligible to vote are those who are interested in a career in politics. So we only vote when it comes time to select a candidate for the seat, not for which candidate for each party will stand for the seat. If that made sense.....

[cvantien.livejournal.com]

Just for interest, I did the questionnaire. Who knew I was actually a Green Democrat? FWIW, here are my top 10 candidates according to the questionnaire:
1. Green Party Candidate (100%)
2. Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (98%)
3. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (86%)
4. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol IL - Democrat (85%)
5. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (83%)
6. Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (82%)
7. Leahy, Patrick Senator, Vermont - Democrat (82%)
8. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (77%)
9. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (75%)
10. Socialist Candidate (70%)

I have no idea who any of these specific people are, but I have heard of #11. Daschle, Senate Minority Leader Tom, SD - Democrat. And my first Republican was Senator John Cain who I have also heard of.