while there are many many flaws with Hillary's campaign.

so far the netroots doesn't translate into the real world.

 no "anti-hillary" vote has ever been seen outside the blogosphere.

but yeah - obama and edwards will be the front runners in blogland

Hillar has never done well here...here it's cool to not like her. I'm mostly disturbed by the weird support for tancredo. I hope it's a plan to get reps to run a crazy fascist.

I voted in it--online polls are like crack, you know--but I didn't care for it.

For example, the poll is wacky on the Dem side, including unannounced candidates Gore and Clark, but not announced candidates Kucinich and Gravel?  Sure they included Gingrich and Pataki on the Republican side, but they at least included their own also-rans like Jim Gilmore and Ron Paul (who seems to score surprisingly well with their on-line crowd).

I guess there's a benefit in that you can compare MyDD's results to the blogosphere-wide results, but given that probably 95% of those blogosphere-wide votes came from Republicans/Conservatarians, those comparisons won't be particularly useful (Bill Richardson is leading the Dem field for the current week--no way that comes from the liberal netroots, even if he is currently my first choice).  And it will give you week-to-week numbers, unlike some straw polls I could name.

But in all, I much prefer Chris's polling, stuffable as it may be.

Al Gore jumps to the top if he announces after winning an Oscar- guranteed.

If Lieberman jumps ship to the Republicans, would that disqualify him as a Unity 08 candidate?  This idea of Lieberman leaving the Democratic Party is getting better and better every day.

I would have liked to have seen the results without Gore and Clark.  Considering they got 3rd and 4th place it could have given entirely different results.  On a related note, who are the 10 people voting for Biden?

His poll was released on Thursday I think.  Leadning by 22% is the typeof trouble most candidates will take.

I don't think either Gore or Clark is running. If Gore is, we should know soon especially if his film wins. He will want to take advantage of the free publicity and if he is going to announce it will be soon. Even though he's said about a million times he's not running.

I don't think Clark will run. He just doesn't have the support he did before and this time the field is a lot more crowded.

I truly feel sorry for many in the blogosphere.  I sincerely believe that not only will Senator Clinton emerge as the Democratic nominee, but she is very likely to take the White House in 2008.

The world to which the "purist" bloggers belong is not one the majority of Americans can recognize, or ever will.  HRC has been maintaining a huge lead, is the ultimate of political survivors, and has the most popular political figure in the world today at her side.  

Goodness, she is in trouble among the purist bloggers!  My, my!  And the greener-than-green Senator Obama and lightweight former Senator Edwards are besting her here.  My, my!  And David Geffen, in a hissy-fit over Bill Clinton's failure to pardon one of Geffen's good friends, disparages Hillary.  Well, there must be "trouble in River City!"

I hope that you will remain contented living in your fantasies.  

However, you might want to ask at sometime in the future why one of your most vaulted of candidates, former Vice-president (and likely the actually elected 43rd President) Al Gore chose Joseph Lieberman to succeed him to the presidency.  One wonders how all of us true progressives would have dealt with Mr. Lieberman's bizarre predilections had he assumed the Vice-presidency.  

Remember, dear "purist bloggers," Bill Clinton chose Al Gore to succeed him, and work alongside of him, whereas Al Gore chose Joseph Lieberman as both his would-be successor and confidante.  And Bill Clinton chose now Governor Bill Richardson, and Bill Clinton chose--oh, but beg your pardon, the Clintons are your enemies, are they not?

Incidentally, in the world of the "purists," it was Ralph Nader who was the savior of the Republic in 2000.  That "savior" has indicated he will only run again if HRC is the 2008 Democratic Candidate.  By that time, it will possibly take more than a third party candidate, statewide shenanigans, the Fourth Estate and the Supreme Court to prevent HRC from being the first woman President.

But dream away, "purist bloggers."  Fantasies may soon be all that you have left.

Oh come on... an online poll of a few hundred folks signifies a movement in the netroots? Come on.

The headline should be "315 of the 1,000 people who happened to be on MYDD and care enough to vote supported X candidate."

I know that the article never claims this is a poll, but it hints at it... arguing that the size of the respondent pool is significant enough to give it an analysis.

If we saw an online poll on Wall Street Journal telling us that only 50% of people disapproved of Bush's handling of the war, we would all know that it isn't legit.

Why?  Not only does the poll just reach out to people who happened to be on that site, but it only elicits opinion from those who care enough to give their opinion in a poll.

Let's make sure that we're being critical of our own analysis here.

Left something out...

Let's remember that "political junkies" and "those who would vote in an online MYDD poll" are hardly the same group.  

This isn't a poll of political junkies, it's a poll that shows the results of who read MYDD during the course of this poll and cared enough to respond.

I pointed this out in the poll thread, but I was able to vote for Edwards twice after refreshing the page.  When I voted, Richardson had a tremendous lead in the overall balloting.  This was a very stuffable ballot.

I'll have the Gore-Obama ticket please, thank you.

Chris himself totaly threw in the towel on this poll and proclaimed it meaningless.  It was corrupted from the start.  Y'all need a poll that can't be freeped.  Until then, this is an exercise in masterbation.

I'd vote that ticket in a minute if Webb was at the top.

I thought it was heaps of fun and I hope we will be able to get to the widget in future as it permits a vote weekly.  I saved the URL for the myDD instance of the poll but I wonder if it will be available in coming weeks on the site?  Anyone?

I think its significant that this was the first poll of MyDD in which I witnessed Obama beating Edwards.  Can't wait for the next MyDD poll.

I voted for Obama and Hagel. Hagel because he's turned anti-war, and because he's an actual authentic conservative...not a trick pony like McCain, or plain out phonies like Rudy and Mitt.

After meeting with Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich on Saturday, Feb. 17th - I think it's important to share an interview that CTBob conducted with Dennis and Elizabeth. It is posted on :

www.CTBob.blogspot.com

Both Dennis and Elizabeth made a strong positive impression on the bloggers, the general public and even the MSM who listened to and spoke with them. They received front page coverage in the Norwalk Hour, Stamford Advocate, Westport News and Westport Now.

When the "media contrived" term "electability" is removed from the equation, I ask each and every reader of MyDD to remember that at this juncture in 1967 ( during the Viet Nam debacle ), Robert Kennedy was in the same position that Dennis and Elizabeth face today - the strongest anti-war, pro-peace candidate - yet nowhere in terms of public recognition. Please give these two brilliant individuals a chance to earn your respect and some of your valuable volunteer time.

View Dennis Kucinich's positions on all the issues - particularly on Iraq and National Health Care - at www.Kucinich.org