Democrats: Would you get the Daily Kos' endorsement?

[Miles]

Here's the questionnaire:

1. Do you support:
a) A public health insurance option, offered by the federal government and tied to Medicare reimbursement rates plus 5% (H.R. 3200, Subtitle B, including § 223(b)(1)(A), as introduced in the House, 111th Congress)?

b) The Medicare You Can Buy Into Act (H.R. 4789, 111th Congress), which would allow all citizens or permanent residents to buy into Medicare?

2. Do you agree that any immigration reform bill should:
a) Contain a meaningful path to citizenship — one that does not include overly-punitive fines or a touchback requirement — for law-abiding undocumented immigrants currently in the United States;
b) Ensure that expanded legal permanent immigration, rather than expansion of temporary worker programs, serves as the United States' primary external answer to workforce shortages; and
c) Ensure that any non-agricultural temporary worker programs maintain current caps on the total number of non-agricultural temporary worker visas issued, and also include a meaningful prevailing wage requirement keyed to the Service Contract Act and the Davis-Bacon Act?

3. Do you oppose each of the following changes to Social Security and Medicare:
a) Raising the retirement age;
b) Eliminating or reducing the cost of living adjustment;
c) Directly reducing benefits;
d) Means-testing recipients; and
e) Privatization, so-called "personal accounts," and vouchers?

4. Do you support the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 1409/S. 560, 111th Congress), including the provision known as "card check"?

5. Do you pledge to vote against any efforts to extend the temporary tax cuts for income over $250,000 (Public Law 111-312)?

6. If elected to the House, do you pledge not to join the Blue Dog Coalition?

7. If elected to the Senate, do you pledge to restore majority rule to the Senate and work/vote to end the filibuster?

[morgieb]

What are the conditions for the Daily Kos's endorsement?

[Miles]

What are the conditions for the Daily Kos's endorsement?

It seems to be somewhat subjective, but all the candidates I've seen them endorse answer "Yes" on basically all of them.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yes, easily.

[Lief 🗽]

Those all seem like reasonable ideas.

[Donerail]

Endorsed by the Daily Kos itself, no. Endorsed by Kos personally, probably.

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/

1.) No, Unsure
2.) Yes
3.) No, Yes, Yes, No, No
4.) Yes
5.) No
6.) No
7.) No

[Zioneer]

All of those probably yes, but I'd have to understand the mechanics of reforming Medicare and Social Security better to truthfully answer #3.

[TNF]

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Yes.

4. Yes. I also support repealing the Taft-Hartley Act in its entirety.

5. Yes.

6. Yes.

7. Yes.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Yes to all.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I answered yes to those questions, but I know that the Kos isn't entirely friendly to New Democrats so I don't know if I would get their endorsement.

[morgieb]

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Not all of them
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Yes, I'm not a coward
7. Yes!

It depends whether my views in reforming Medicare/Social Security are too conservative to outweigh my liberal stances. I'm pretty sure if I was in the House/Senate I'd be on the liberal end of it.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Yeah, probably.

[Miles]

I doubt I would get endorsed by them. The main sticking points for me would be that I oppose a public option (though I support the Medicare buy-in), card check and I would definitely join the Blue Dogs. On everything else, I'm a Yes.

I'd probably be running in a right-leaning state or district, so they may consider that.

[Frodo]

In the end, probably, but it would be an unenthusiastic endorsement -one that they would grant only after seeking out every other alternative:
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1. Do you support:
a) A public health insurance option, offered by the federal government and tied to Medicare reimbursement rates plus 5% (H.R. 3200, Subtitle B, including § 223(b)(1)(A), as introduced in the House, 111th Congress)? Yes

b) The Medicare You Can Buy Into Act (H.R. 4789, 111th Congress), which would allow all citizens or permanent residents to buy into Medicare? Yes

2. Do you agree that any immigration reform bill should:
a) Contain a meaningful path to citizenship — one that does not include overly-punitive fines or a touchback requirement — for law-abiding undocumented immigrants currently in the United States; Yes
b) Ensure that expanded legal permanent immigration, rather than expansion of temporary worker programs, serves as the United States' primary external answer to workforce shortages; Yes
c) Ensure that any non-agricultural temporary worker programs maintain current caps on the total number of non-agricultural temporary worker visas issued, and also include a meaningful prevailing wage requirement keyed to the Service Contract Act and the Davis-Bacon Act? Yes

3. Do you oppose each of the following changes to Social Security and Medicare:
a) Raising the retirement age;
b) Eliminating or reducing the cost of living adjustment;
c) Directly reducing benefits;
d) Means-testing recipients; and
e) Privatization, so-called "personal accounts," and vouchers?
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I support raising the retirement age, means-testing recipients, as well as indexing Social Security benefits to inflation as opposed to wages to ensure the continued solvency of these programs.  The other options presented here, I do not support.

4. Do you support the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 1409/S. 560, 111th Congress), including the provision known as "card check"? Yes

5. Do you pledge to vote against any efforts to extend the temporary tax cuts for income over $250,000 (Public Law 111-312)? Yes

6. If elected to the House, do you pledge not to join the Blue Dog Coalition? No

7. If elected to the Senate, do you pledge to restore majority rule to the Senate and work/vote to end the filibuster? No -the filibuster is designed to be a double-edged sword...it has its purpose.  Who knows, it might come in handy someday when we are in the minority.  

[Kaine for Senate '18]

It looks like I support all except #7; I'd guess yes, but my FoPo views might doom me.