66% of Americans can't name ANY dem candidate?

[Cocoa]

CAN YOU NAME ANY DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES?

All Americans
No, cannot recall any 66%
John Kerry 7%
Howard Dean 7%
Joe Lieberman 6%
Richard Gephardt 3%
Bob Graham 1%
John Edwards 1%
Dennis Kucinich 1%
Al Sharpton 2%
Others 6%

Among Democrats
No, cannot recall any 66%
John Kerry 7%
Howard Dean 7%
Joe Lieberman 6%
Richard Gephardt 3%
Bob Graham 1%
John Edwards 1%

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/10/opinion/polls/main562628.shtml

Dennis Kucinich 1%
Al Sharpton 2%
Others 6%

[leesa]

1. 66% of Americans are idiots

I think the last 3 to 4 years proves that admirably! They also probably don't know where South America is.

[Friar]

5. most of us

don't know our Senators (only two!) much less our congresspeople (I am so politically correct). We don't know our own State Capitals, f'r Christ's sake! The VRWC wants it that way. Hence, No Child Left Behind legistlation is designed to further cripple the education system.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Well, you can either despair over this situation

or just realize that it's awfully early in the campaign cycle & 90% of the population isn't paying any attention yet. This will change as the primary season approaches.

It's kind of a good sign that Shrub is as low as he is on the rfe-elect polls with no significant campaign having yet been mounted against him, and with no opposition that has any name recognition at all.

That, by the way, is why Gore is doing so well against him, nearly beating him. People have mostly at least heard of Gore.

[Cocoa]

6. it puts those Bush vs. dem polls in perspective

pretty safe to say those polls are meaningless.

Yeah, it's early. People are probably deliberately tuning out right now, knowing how sick they're going to be of the whole campaign.

[izzie]

3. I am not shocked. It is not in their minds yet.

Plus are you sure most know who Bush is?

[WilliamPitt]

4. Kinda makes all the fussin' and scratcin' on DU

seem sorta small, dunnit?

It's early. Way early.

[glarius]

7. Could this be the reason....if you don't mind an outsider's opinion

In the United States there is ALWAYS a pending election....At least that's the way it seems to me. I think people just tune out politics because there seems to be a never-ending campaign always going on...Here in Canada and I know it's the same in Great Britain, there is NO campaigning till a month before the election....You have one month of campaigning, election day and that's it till the next election.....Do you think there is any merit to what I'm saying?...Don't you think people just get numbed to it and tune it all out???....

[Jackpine Radical]

9. I think there's a lot of merit in what you say.

Here, elections are such incredible big-money, high-stakes marathons that the whole system is dysfunctional. You folks with parliamentary systems are much better off.

[ButterflyBlood]

8. This is actually a good thing in my view

it means that all the bashing the Rove-machine is doing on them won't amount to much.

[Philosophy]

10. Don't worry

People aren't going to vote for Bush just because that's the only name they recognize on the ballot. People that are that stupid don't vote at all.

[Sirius_on]

11. 75% of Americans probably dont know who the VP is.

A friend of mine was down on his luck a few years ago and worked somewhere with a large amount of typical disinterested late teens/young adults. Lets just call this place "Wendys" for an example. He asked them a few questions about general political figures and relized how dumb they were. He then asked them who the vice president was(Its was 2001) and only 1 of the group of 10 knew. He then asked who the president was....4 knew!!!!!

4 people said they had no idea.
1 of them thought it was Gore.(kinda right in a sense)
1 of them thought it was Clinton still.

The average American knows more about Survivor then who basically governs there lives.

[LuminousX]

12. I just took a poll in my own apartment

and my girlfriend couldn't name 4 people running even though I talk about Dean and Kerry daily (just shows she really isn't listening). She said that she doesn't start paying attention to things until about two months before she has to vote.

I'm chagrined because I haven't impressed upon her the need to be aware NOW, to act NOW, regarding getting Bush out of office. She asked why and I had to tell her that the Democrats need her to talk to her friends about the candidates. She needs to be able to say she supports candidate X for a list of specific reasons. This is the only way we can guarantee Bush will be removed from office.

And when he does leave, how many people think he will leave a big steaming pile of crap in the middle of the Oval Office?

[newyawker99]

13. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=21959&mesg_id=21959&page=4


I am locking this one.


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