ASK THE CANDIDATES About These Impt. ISSUES Not Addressed on Their Websites

[snot]

Ending the Iraq war and health care reform are urgent issues. But for me, the top two priorities are election reform and media reform, because our ability to respond effectively regarding everything else depends on those two.

Last I checked, none of the leading Presidential candidates' official websites addresses either election reform or media reform, presumably because the corporate media and others aren't asking about them. To ask the candidates about those issues, for Huckabee go to http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=ContactUs.Home , for McCain go to http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/ , for Clinton go to http://www.hillaryclinton.com/help/contact/ , and for Obama go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/contact/ .

[Mme. Defarge]

1. K&R!

[Catbird]

2. Election reform is top of my list. nt/

[gateley]

4. Although no longer a candidate,

here's Biden's take on it. I'd be interested to know if you agree with his assessment/proposals. Thanks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-soboroff/joe-biden-on-election-ref_b_67075.html

[Catbird]

7. Thanks for the link.

Joe Biden is, as usual, articulate and informed in this clip. Basically I agree with him on these issues, especially forcing federal uniform standards. Biden was my first choice candidate this time around.

[snot]

10. Good answers. I like Biden, 'though while he was in it, I was supporting DK. nt

[kster]

5. The media has already manipulated the 2008 election, Kucinich barred

from six debates, Kucinich was silenced before the first vote was cast. Kucinich would have won by a landslide

So who ever we pick the corporations have already won. The corporations want the two candidates that will come in 50/50 to give Americans the illusion that we are divided, helps prevent an uprising or that whole civil war thingy.



From people that have the time to get their facts by reading and watching the intenet...

The final totals were:

Kucinich 31.97% 49364

Al Gore 24.77% 38242

Former Senator John Edwards 15.6% 24078

Senator Barack Obama 13.86% 21403

Senator Hillary Clinton 4.21% 6504

Governor Bill Richardson 4.09% 6309

Other 2.05% 3171

Senator Christopher Dodd 1.56% 2415

Senator Joe Biden 1.12% 1723

Former Senator Mike Gravel 0.77% 1182

Kucinich beat the other candidates among voters from the first caucus state of Iowa and the first primary state of New Hampshire. He also won the early caucus state of Nevada, while Obama won the early primary state of South Carolina.

Notably, Gore won New York state.

And what of the "front-runner" for the nomination? Hillary Clinton lost every state in the DFA survey, which saw 95 percent of voters back someone other than the New York senator.

It is no secret that the powers that be in the party leadership and the boardrooms of the major networks have fixated on Clinton as the likely nominee. Nor is it any secret that the party and media bosses would prefer to drop Kucinich from the roster of Democratic contenders who must be invited to join debates and participate in major events such as the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Gravel was excluded from the most recent Democratic debate at Drexel University and moderator Tim Russert did everything he could during the course of that debate to read Kucinich out of the running.

But Kucinich's poll numbers in formal national and state surveys actually went up after the Drexel debate. The congressman is polling ahead of Dodd and Biden -- as well as Gravel --in most national surveys of likely Democratic voters. The same is true of many surveys from early caucus and primary states. And, with the DFA result, he can now point to an impressive finish in a test most of the major contenders took seriously. While Kucinich certainly campaigned hard to get votes in the DFA poll, Obama, Edwards, Richardson and Dodd made significant efforts -- by sending emails and cutting videos -- to encourage their backers to participate in the survey. As such, Kucinich's win is meaningful -- and it should become at least a bit more difficult to dismiss the congressman's win, and his candidacy.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=249126

K&R......

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Just trying to picture

Russert or Williams or Blitzer asking any canditates for their views on "how the media selects the candidates." As if.

And thanks for the contact information!

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Former candidate Kucinich had media reform on his platform.

And maybe election reform, too.

But I recall him talking about media reform and may even have introduced a bill to deal with it.

Of course, nothing he does means shit to most people.

[Little Star]

8. k&r n/t

[diva77]

9. my experience has been that trying to get a candidate or office holder to

say or do anything about election reform is impossible. For them it would be like looking a gift horse in the mouth.

[EFerrari]

11. Kick for a great idea.

:applause: