Amy Klobuchar Is Being Cautious, But Half Loaves Won't Motivate

[karynnj]

3. Let the primaries determine who motivates people to vote for a candidate

I have not completely decided which candidate I want to win -- because some are not in and most have yet to define what their vision is.

I do object strongly to your comments on Kerry, who never was defined as a centrist. He was to the left of everyone in the 2004 election other than Sharpton and Kuchinich. In addition, if Ohio had not suppressed the vote by putting fewer polling machines in Democratic strongholds - leading to 4 to even 10 hour lines! - he would have won Iowa and the Presidency.

PS - Howard Dean, who was excellent at the DNC, was a middle of the road VT Governor. John Edwards was one of the most conservative Democratic Senators at that time. I suspect that many people who want to pigeon hole Kerry as a centrist, bland Senator never really looked at his history. Between leading an antiwar movement of veterans that worried Nixon to investigating the arm and drug running to raise money and arm the right wing Contra thugs. The latter was in the Reagan administration when many Democrats supported helping the Contras legally. As to bland, the media showed very little of his rallies - just their talking heads characterising them. MANY Many times after 2004 when Kerry spoke, there would be threads here saying if "only he were that good in 2004". On CSPAN in his rallies, he was -- but how many people follow politics on CSPAN?