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Who would Europeans elect, and no personal sympathy votes? I had to go for edwards, even though like Turambar this looks like a "Gravel vs. Kucinich clash of Titans".

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Oct 7th, 2007 at 08:51:55 AM EST
I'm tempted to vote for Thompson just to be perverse. (And given a Thompson win, I expect perversity would be exactly what a lot of people would get.)

But in reality it's either Edwards or Kucinich - Gravel having been seen on YouTube throwing rocks into a pond, which rather disqualifies him, except as a Web 2.0 media event.

So it's Kucinich, because of nagging doubts that Edwards is the Left's - er - Clinton, and perhaps isn't being entirely sincere about his populist positioning.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 7th, 2007 at 09:10:04 AM EST
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... his sincerity ... just not made as loudly, because the Republicans don't worry about actually having to face him. His flip flop on abortion, his insistence on his right to be in Presidential primary debates while not debating his Congressional primary opponents.

But while Edwards is a progressive for where the US is right now, he's a moderate progressive after three decades of having the "middle" being pulled toward the right ... I'm not sure where he'd lie in the European political spectrum.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Oct 7th, 2007 at 10:01:42 AM EST
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