Atlas Forum Straw Poll for Democrats: 2016 Presidential Nominee

[Mr. Illini]

Voted Sanders in the poll, but we'll see. I don't really want him to be the nominee, but I see myself voting for a Clinton alternative just to register my protest.

If Biden jumped in, I would be #ReadyForBiden.

[Eraserhead]

Where did all these Clinton votes come from?

[Liberalrocks]

Hillary all the way !

[© tweed]

Where did all these Clinton votes come from?

lots of Obama 2008 primary voters.

[oeoyeleye]

Where did all these Clinton votes come from?

You do realize that Hillary won more votes in the 2008 primary than Obama, and that some people actually do like her.

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Where did all these Clinton votes come from?

You do realize that Hillary won more votes in the 2008 primary than Obama, and that some people actually do like her.

Without Michigan and Florida, who are lucky they got any delegates after violating the rules, Obama had more votes. If Michigan and Florida had normal votes, they wouldn't have been so great for Clinton, especially since Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan.

[© tweed]

Where did all these Clinton votes come from?

You do realize that Hillary won more votes in the 2008 primary than Obama, and that some people actually do like her.

lol, is this what a Clinton 2016 hack looks like?  the hacks of the past were more colorful.

[oeoyeleye]

Where did all these Clinton votes come from?

You do realize that Hillary won more votes in the 2008 primary than Obama, and that some people actually do like her.

lol, is this what a Clinton 2016 hack looks like?  the hacks of the past were more colorful.

Maybe the fact that I'm not being excessively colorful indicates that I'm not a hack. Hillary isn't my favorite Democrat in the world and I sorely wish that there were other Dems in the race. I can name more than a few that I'd support over her. But my choices are Webb, O'Malley, Clinton, Chaffee and Sanders. I'm choosing to support Clinton because I think Sanders is unelectable and his presidency wouldn't go anywhere. Bernie is great for dragging the conversation to the left, but I honestly do not want him to be president. I think Clinton would do a decent job as president and she has the best chance to win of everyone running, and so I'm supporting her in 2016. But besides that, I stand by my statement that some people just don't hate her as much as half of Atlas seems to. She got 18,000,000 votes in 2008 and I know a lot of people who'd vote for her now that wouldn't have considered it in 2008. She's not despised by the average primary voter. She just isn't.

[Mr. Illini]

Where did all these Clinton votes come from?

lots of Obama Clinton 2008 primary voters.

FTFY

[Mr. Reactionary]

Donating to Webb.

[WVdemocrat]

Poor DimpledChad

I know, O'Malley has only one vote, from me. Poor DimpledChad indeed.

Anyway, I did vote for O'Malley. I'd like to make a couple of comments on this thread though. Bernie isn't totally unelectable as a lot of people on here suggest. Second, I will give Hillary credit - she has moved to the left since the 90s and since 2008. As I've thought about it more, my biggest problem with her is really her constant triangulation. It just gets on my nerves sometimes. I'll be more than willing to support her in the general, I just think O'Malley's got a great record, and I lived in Maryland so I got first hand experience with the effects of his record.

I'm really warming to Hillary though, and I'm begin to realize that ten years ago, she would be considered really liberal, and she's moved to the left with the party and the country. I really think I'd be happy to have her as our nominee. BUT, I still really like O'Malley, and he's got my support until he wins the general election, or until he drops out of the race.

[Kingpoleon]

Voted Webb.

Prefer:
#RunJoeRun

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Sanders is pulling ahead

[Eraserhead]

Why are there so many more Webb voters than O'Malley/Chafee voters? Are there really that many Dixiecrats on here or are the Repubicans voting for Webb?

[Panhandle Progressive]

Sanders is pulling ahead

Not so much.
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