Ponderings...

[izixs]

Before I get to this month's general election prediction, I decided to look into candidates a bit. As I do have left leaning political philosophy I decided to forgoe getting angry and stuck with the democrats for my support search. So I've gotten my first feel of the candidates from their websites now. I believe my current preferences are as such

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[chiashurb]

In general

[izixs]

This exploration was just my first look at the candidate's stances, and is by no means a settle run down. I still probably won't for Vilsack despite his current high ranking on me list and now that you remind me of his budget tricks I probably should of put him a couple rungs furthur down

[chiashurb]

What was the Iowa deal with Edwards?

[izixs]

It was that if either Edwards or Kucinich failed to have enough people in a preference group to get a delegate that one would send people over to the other to make the lacking group viable provided the larger group had enough people to do so. There was likely more to it than that as I think it may have also had a condition that if one group couldn't be made viable that they would join the larger group to try to get a second delegate there. But in practice it seems Kucinich came out the sucker of the deal with edwards coming in a strong second and he like 5thish. 1. Its unwise to try to play these kinds of games with a candidate who has a noticably larger base of support (but not an out right majority then they'd have the bodies to spare) thus if Edward's people tried to honor the deal in reality Kucinich didn't come out the better for it, and 2. It would of been wiser to make such a deal with the other candidates who were not expected to get above 5% in Iowa (clark, lieberman, sharpton, mosely-braun before she dropped out) as then a