Who was the last Democratic Party nominee to truly represent the progressive agenda you believe in?

[Douglas Carpenter]

11 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Barack Obama truly represents the progressives agenda I believe in
	2 (18%)
	John Kerry in 2004 truly represented the progressive agenda I believe in
	0 (0%)
	Al Gore in 2000 truly represented the progressive agenda I believe in
	0 (0%)
	Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 truly represented the progressive agenda I believe in
	0 (0%)
	Michael Dukakis in 1988 truly represented the progressive agenda I believe in
	0 (0%)
	Walter Mondale in 1984 truly represented the progressive agenda I beleive in
	0 (0%)
	Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980 truly represented the progressive agenda I believe in
	3 (27%)
	George McGovern in 1972 truly represented the progressive agenda I believe in
	5 (45%)
	Hubert Humphrey in 1968 truly reprsented the progressive agenda I believe in
	0 (0%)
	Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964 truly represented the progressive agenda I believe in
	1 (9%)
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[dkf]

1. The Barack Obama I voted for was exactly what I wanted. The Barack Obama I got is the Hillary

I avoided.

No public option, health insurance mandate and a war hawk...that was what scared me away from Hillary!!!

Maybe the problem is he surrounded himself with Clintonites so we got Hillary's policies anyway.

[leftstreet]

6. 'The Hillary I avoided'

No kidding!

+1

[MNBrewer]

7. Are you Ready to Avoid Hillary again?

Because you might have to!

[dkf]

8. After Obama, I'm even more skeptical about how people run.

Now I say "show me the track record"!

[CANDO]

11. That is spot on!

And no, we don't hate the President. I wanted to avoid another 3rd way Clinton, but what I got was a 3rd way Obama.

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. on

[Scootaloo]

3. I'm tempted by Al Gore...

But the Al Gore that ran from president is a VERY different Al Gore from the one I see today - I can't imagine the modern Al Gore ever running with Joseph Lieberman.

Obama comes close, but is too centrist. The others are before my time

Now, if you were asking about candidates...

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. if I may share with you a short video hearkening back to the man I voted for on my 18th birthday

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in the first election in American history where 18-year-olds could vote nationally. Ever since then I have asked myself, "how different the world would be if George McGovern had become President and if there had been a McGovern revolution instead of a Reagan revolution?"

One Bright Shining Moment - The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern

[BlueMTexpat]

4. In my lifetime, definitely Hubert Humphrey!

Unfortunately, he was unfairly tainted as the "heir" of the Vietnam War legacy, as well as being mightily damaged by Eugene McCarthy in the primaries.

Hubert was a true liberal, even before that was popular in the Democratic party. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html

From the link:

...

Humphrey made his national political debut in 1948 when, as mayor of Minneapolis and a candidate for Senate, he headed the Minnesota delegation to the Democratic National Convention. There he led a faction insisting the platform include a federal fair employment commission, a controversial goal of the civil rights movement.

Segregationist Southerners threatened to walk out, a move that could have paralyzed the entire fragile Democratic coalition and handed the White House to the Republicans. The Democrats’ first presidential defeat in 20 years might have been laid at the feet of this ambitious 37-year-old.

Humphrey could have been excused for quietly backing down. Instead, the man who had earned the nickname the Happy Warrior gave one of the greatest speeches in American political history.

“To those who say this civil rights program is an infringement on states’ rights,” he thundered from the convention podium, “I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states’ rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”

...

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. another kik for more resutls.

[Johonny]

10. Clinton and Obama as nominee's had decent progressive agendas at the convention

You can argue their administration haven't lived up to that agenda. On the other hand both have spent much of their office with do nothing or do conservative ideas congresses. I think had America doubled down on the 2008 congress instead of running away from them Obama would look much more attractive right now. I seriously look at the conservatives in the house and ask myself does a majority of Americans really believe in this agenda? The real question when is the last time the vast majority of Americans have demanded a progressive agenda and not wasted votes on fake "fighters for you" under the label of Tea party, contract for America, libertarian, christian right...

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. strange, I would have expected a few votes for Clinton?

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. thry this one more time

[reddread]

14. Why no JFK?

Seems like he earned a spot the hard way?

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. there was only room for 10 answers