What candidate panders the most?

[calteacherguy]

[Hydra]

1. tough call

I especially don't like when they visit AIPAC.

[msongs]

2. gee and I was thinking it would be a republican nt

[calteacherguy]

4. I assume everyone here will be voting in the Democratic Primary, not the Republican Primary.

That being the case, asking which Republican panders the most would be completely irrelevant.

[Deja Q]

3. If you had two more candidates listed, and Clinton's name was still in the middle, it

would look like somebody was extending their middle finger...

Oh dear...

:hide:

[saltpoint]

5. You're all negative as usual. If you want pandering, you might

check out the GOP.

They're absolutely tops at it.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. To whom? Everything is pandering to *somebody*.

I think this question could just as well have been rephrased as "which candidate don't you like"?

[BootinUp]

9. I disagree.

In order for a position to clearly be pandering it would not be based on a strongly held or longtime held principle. Or the candidate would appear to support some groups situation only for a short term gain.

[cleveramerican]

7. The only answer is... Whoever is leading.

[BootinUp]

8. a little more honesty from the peanut gallery would be nice n/t

[PATRICK]

10. The term pander

suggests money transactions, pimping. If it is broadened to include ALL soliciting for support from any group with any type of offering such as platform agendas then every pol who ever ran for office does it all the time. The negative connotation merely asks the poll responder to say whose "pandering" they dislike the most.

If you tailor the question more, such as saying who dangles the most advantage and favors(or pressure) to Dem officeholders, it would appear fairly loaded against one candidate. Or the most favors and remunerative dangled either in front of the corporations or the poor voters seeking relief or higher wages or jobs it would be loaded again. Edwards might be trying to "pander' to the disadvantaged, but historically that doesn't earn votes automatically. The presumption that a Clinton will raise all ships while profiting big business, albeit a little lower than the current criminal endeavors, works better. It might be less a question of "pandering" than actually likelihood of delivery and who benefits the most in conflicting big tent promises.

This is a too simplistic attack poll, and although all DU polls are hardly professional or serious at all times, it is an understatement to say it is badly, provocatively, worded.