How furious are you regarding the primary season thus far?

[WilliamPitt]

Poll question: How furious are you regarding the primary season thus far?

Every person will have their own reasons. Just curious overall.

[bif]

1. Extremely pissed that Iowa and New Hampshire are calling the shots.

If Michigan went first, Dean would now be the frontrunner.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

10. WTF?

Michigan results: 

100% reporting  	
                votes    %     delegates 
Kerry           84,214  52%	91  	
Dean            26,994 	17%	24
Edwards 	21,919 	13%	6
Sharpton 	11,270 	7%	7
Clark 	        10,986 	7%	0
Kucinich 	5,183 	3%	0


http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/states/MI/index.html

[MaineDem]

2. As long as I remember that DU isn't real world I'm ok

I've been enjoying the fight. It started out a bit dicey but it's turning out just fine. :)

[KFC]

22. Agreed

Outside of DU, most Democrats are obviously supporting Kerry.

[WilliamPitt]

3. 37 votes and no one is apoplectic

Hm.

[MidwestMomma]

11. The apopletic are unable to respond

:evilgrin:

[Lisa0825]

12. I voted apopleptic just for you!

:grr:

[VelmaD]

35. I voted apoplectic...

partly to make you happy and partly because it's a great word...ap-o-plec-tic. Apoplectic. :-)

And in all honesty I am a little bit apoplectic (still digging that word) that the most progressive candidate of my lifetime can't get the fucking time of day from the mainstream media.

[BootinUp]

4. Yeeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh!!!!

I took the second to the last option. :grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke:

[Crunchy Frog]

26. I second that

"Yeeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh!!!!"

[knight_of_the_star]

50. Motion carries!

"Yeeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh!!!!"

[sleipnir]

5. After 4 years of Bush and we still run "Business as Usual"

Nominating and running "run-of-the-mill" candidates. I'm pretty pissed off about this issue. We need a radical to reign in the damage * has done and it doesn't look like that's going to happen. I can only hope that Kerry is the opposite of Bush in the fact that he seems like a moderate, but when he takes office he becomes a radical liberal...one can hope, can't I?

[Mass_Liberal]

6. I'm

GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

[HereSince1628]

30. Gotta be in the running as the longest one "word" on DU

But I really thought there were more y's :)

[Mass_Liberal]

45. heheh

how mad are you HereSince1628?

[xray s]

7. Well...somebody has to lose

My guy lost yesterday and is going home today. But he can go home with his head held high. Good job, General!

In the end, I just want the toughest, street smart bare knuckle fighter we can find to beat the bastards now occupying our government.

I think the process is working.

[SangamonTaylor]

8. I just want my voice to be heard on March 9th

here in TEXAS!!!!

[ModerateMiddle]

56. You have a better chance

there in Texas, than we do in Colorado. We "caucus" in April.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[NWHarkness]

9. Mellow, I suppose

I voted, my guy lost. Time to move on and get about the business of defeating Bush.

[mitchtv]

13. oh just great! if I don't want kerry( not necessarily true)

I get Edwards? there must be an early western regional primary.

[ramapo]

14. Not thrilled but will work with what we've got

Thrilling would be millions of people voting for DK along with hugh protests throughout the country.

Or maybe a true insurgency gathering around Gen. Clark but he just wasn't able to cut it.

Perhaps a Dean-like campaign run by a different candidate.

But it looks like a rich liberal with a pretty good resume will have to suffice.

So we can be all pissed off and let Bush remain in office based on some bizarre thinking that results in the conclusion that Kerry is so tainted that he's just as bad as Bush. Sounds a lot like the Naderspeak that painted Gore as being equal to Bush.

Or we can work with what we've got. It's an easy choice for me.

[WarNoMore]

15. The media is my biggest

bone of contention.

[GumboYaYa]

16. None of the above, just quietly resigned to the fact that

you have to be ready for a long, hard fight if you want to change the country for the better.

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

17. You should add an option for "saddened"

[Kanary]

18. you took my words

Sad, discouraged, frightened.

Wanna go find a cave somewhere.

Does that count?

Kanary

[KoKo]

28. Saddened and disappointed that it appears "over" so soon. Not Fair....

the way the Primaries were set up, I believe. I think that will come back to bite.

[GreenArrow]

44. disheartened.

depressed, but ultimately, not surprised.

[Shanty Oilish]

19. I'm dancing for joy

:bounce:

[Desertrose]

20. all of the above...depending on the day

but mostly saddened that we are gonna blow this because of fear.

damn it sucks.....

Peace
DR

[Terwilliger]

21. GRRRRAAAAA?? Is that a Dean Scream?

(tm)?

[Mattforclark]

23. lol

[Anwen]

39. Nope,

that's YEEEEAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHHH! :)

[ulysses]

24. apathetic.

:shrug:

[Crunchy Frog]

25. I put apoplectic

I'm extremely pissed at the DNC's decision to front load the primaries, which I felt effectively disenfranchised people and is letting momentum take over the process and preventing a real assessement of the candidates to take place.

I am furious at the media for the unfair coverage they have given to the candidates, the way they have refused to cover real issues, and the feeling that they are orchestrating the whole thing, and people are just going along with it.

I would feel this way whoever was winning, it is not just sour grapes over my candidate. Other candidates have been badly screwed as well, and Kerry will be once he has the nomination in the bag. The corporate media at this point is a Republican tool.

We are now witnessing why a free press is necessary for a democracy to be able to function.

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to vent.:)

[politick]

27. PS. Just saw "China Syndrome"

last night. we need some Jack Lemmons, Jane Fondas, and Michael Douglases these days. Good poll

[Fargin Ice Hole]

29. Don't get to excited. The race is only 1/3 over.....

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[BL_Zebub]

32. I haven't been this pissed since I got booted out of Heaven

And that was a really really long time ago :grr:

The candidates with any REAL message, like Dean, Clark, and Kucinich are completely shut out in favor of the DLC corporatist stooges. Anyone who thinks the Democratic Party still belongs to the people, is dreaming. And John Kerry isn't going to do a damn thing to win it back. :evilfrown:

[mitchum]

33. I'm as happy as Felix the Cat

VERY HAPPY

Kerry 2004

[Skwmom]

34. What was the latest % for the Democratic party?

30%. I think it's going to do some shrinking after this primary based on what I'm hearing from people. I never understood why people wouldn't vote or tuned out the political process. I now understand. It's like swimming in a cesspool. If you didn't tune it out, you would be too dam*ed depressed.

Furthermore, I can understand why people do not want to know a lot about their candidate before they vote. For most politicians the more you know about them the less you like them.

[GreenArrow]

46. For most politicians the more you know about them

the less you like them.

Ain't that the sad truth.

[ibegurpard]

36. I wonder how Grovelbot voted?

:shrug:

[no name no slogan]

43. I heard he may be a Freeper

but I'm holding out hope that he isn't.

[MadHound]

37. Not furious, just disappointed, seriously mind numbingly disappointed

Once again we see the same ol same ol. A corporate candidate corinated by a corrupt party. A summoning to arms, with no reward for the faithful. A spreading of fear in order to inspire hope. Just one more nail in the coffin of a once upstanding party.

The Democratic Party had a golden oppurtunity to remake and reenergize itself. Instead it to the monied way out. Hopefully it will take the next chance, for it really doesn't have many left.

[hedgetrimmer]

53. yeah, me too....

but, the party is chanced out...

some out-a-the-party lefties will go psycho on this whole scene... there will be major upset for the peeps and then some resurection... as is the way history dictates

many blessings...

[robbedvoter]

38. Why ask? Your guy rips the benefits of inertia (to say the least)

Rubbing it in?

[WilliamPitt]

41. My guy?

My 1-15% guy?

[arewethereyet]

40. the process is the process, I accept it and its working as intended

and I'm glad my guy is still in the hunt. nobody said it was going to be easy.

[corporatewhore]

42. KAAAAAAAAAHHHH-oh wait YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHGGERRR

[dawgman]

51. HEY!! There are only 30 stars in your flag pal

:P

[WilliamPitt]

47. How are the China Syndrome people still posting?

Didn't they melt through the floor?

[MrSlayer]

48. Very angry.

But there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it.

[VOX]

49. Am saving apoplexy for the long haul. Right now? Am depressed...

I am astonished that John Kerry is simply steamrolling everything in his path. Yes, I will vote for him if he gets the nod, but that's not what's troubling me.

Everything and everyone had pronounced Kerry's campaign *dead*. Flatlined. Gone. There were numerous articles, including one in the good grey New York Times, that were post-mortems on the late, not-so-great Kerry campaign.

Was Iowa the sole cause of Kerry's resurrection? Was the pep-rally speech alone the undoing of Dean? Did Clark's wheels come off just because the media called him (and Dean, and Kucinich) a nut-job? Were all the faded (and fading) candidates really lightweights in the face of Kerry?

None of the above questions are adequately sufficient to explain the course of fortunes in this primary season. Certainly, I am dismayed that the more progressive candidates who stood foursquare against the Iraq invasion have now slipped away. I gave emotional and monetary support to Dean, Kucinich, Clark.

I have heard it said that voting is not therapy, and if Kerry will indeed be the Democratic candidate, I simply need some time to come around to him. The bottom half of the eventual ticket will serve to bolster morale, given a good veep nominee.

[texasmom]

52. Genuinely angry

at the front-loaded primary and at Terry Mac. I'm disappointed at the outcome so far.

Today I found that I'm still apoplectic, though, about the stolen election of 2000. A co-worker asked me if I was having a bad day, and I unloaded on him about my disappointment in Wes Clark's withdrawal and how I feel about Bush in general--going back to his days as gov of Tx. and the turning point of Florida, 2000 and SCOTUS decision.

Good news: he voted for Bush in 2000, but he's voting against him this time! reasons: the economy and healthcare costs

[Skittles]

54. candidates drop out well before I have the chance to vote?

it stinks as bad as the electoral college

[Bucky]

55. Are you kidding? This is the most fun campaign season EVER!

It was already that. But then Drudge happened and baby, this is just icing. I love this. THIS is entertainment.