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Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 1:13 PM

Candidate McDreamy

Steve Tuttle

Imagine you're sitting around one night watching TV and a pollster calls. The nice man wants you to participate in a "blind bio" poll, which means he will describe several potential presidential candidates to you and then ask you which person you'd hypothetically support. He won't give you any names, only a brief description of the candidates' biographies. You think, well, "Scrubs" is over, I might as well hear him out. 

The pollster starts talking about this one guy, call him "Candidate A," who seems pretty cool:   He's "an experienced candidate from the South who has been Vice President...and a U.S. Senator." Wow!  Sounds great. Who could it be, though? This person has won "several awards, including an Oscar, a Grammy, and an Emmy for his documentary about global climate change."  Man, you're thinking, this guy is amazing! If only someone like that would run in real life. How could I not  vote for such a person?  

But wait!  It gets better. This mysterious hypothetical dream candidate also just won the Nobel Peace Prize! Woah! Think that's good? "This candidate has been against the Iraq war from the beginning." OMG! You are sold, especially when you learn that two of the other "blind bio" candidates "voted to authorize" the war but now say it was "wrong" or have been critical of how it's been handled. Flip-floppers. The only other candidate mentioned is a "first-term" Senator who "draws huge crowds to campaign rallies." Big whup.  

You think it over for half a second and tell the pollster you're choosing "Candidate A" over those war supporters B and D and the inexperienced C. You and 35 percent of the 527 "likely Democratic voters" interviewed nationwide October 24-27 agree that this mysterious fellow is a dream candidate.  (Which begs the question: who are the 65 percent of Dems who voted for the flip-floppers and non-Nobel winners?) The poll was done by Zogby International market research and was commissioned by something called "algore.org." Stay tuned to this space as our investigation into who this mysterious candidate might be continues.

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Posted By: votenic (December 8, 2007 at 9:22 PM)

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Posted By: cowbuoy (November 3, 2007 at 5:12 PM)

First of all anyone who belives that global warming is actually happening can't have to many brains to begin with.  Second anyone who thinks Al Gore should be president have to be some of the stupidest Americans I have ever heard.  Al Gore has no reason to be in the news let alone a presidential canidate

JTH07 -

First - There is NO scientific debate on iIF global warming is happening. The debate is the casue of it.

Second - Al Gore  won the popular vote in 2000. That means you think that over 1/2 of Americans are some of the stupiest people you have ever heard of.

I am sure knowing what we now know about Bush  - if the 2000 election was held again Gore would beat Bush in a landslide.

I think YOU are the one that needs brains!


Posted By: gentlegiant (November 2, 2007 at 10:29 PM)

Al Gore won't run because he is too intelligent to get sucked in to trying to fix the mess Bush will leave. He can do just as much,....or more,...as a private citizen, as he could as President. As long as a Democrat is elected in 2008, Al will have a chance to get carbon reductions across the board.