Hi Bart, longtime reader and current member,
Thanks for all you do on the site. I'm not
quite with you on the Hillary kick, but that's OK,
just think there are some misunderstandings.
The Kos poll IS a scientific poll, it's just that
it is a poll of readers of the dailykos site.
No, the Kos poll is the opposite of a scientific poll.
No one (except someone who was just shown that
page, independent of the knowledge of how the
data was taken) has claimed this is an estimate
of how many people in the U.S. support her.
I guess nobody likes to be called a liar.
Please don't explain to me what my mail says.
Somehow, I became the only guy on the internet who thinks our frontrunner
can win.
So every time someone sees that Kos poll, they send it to me, usually
with snotty remarks
about me being "so stupid that I can't read."
It was a poll of dailykos readers asking them
who do YOU support.
I happened to vote for Al Gore in that poll because...
(plusses about Gore and Feingold.)
Hillary is so... (lots of negatives about
Hillary.)
I wouldn't support her in a Democratic primary...if
it were held right now.
That's a fair position for a Democrat to have
right now, isn't it?
"Fair?"
You have every right to support any candidate you want.
If Hillary runs into the hate I ran into, it's going to get uglier than
a Rove campaign and every word
said about her will be played on a non-stop loop by the corporate bastards
they say she protects until
the day she dies. It would be nice if Democrats could keep from
self-immolating, but I know my party.
And if I vote that sentiment on a web site, that
is my prerogative.
I'd vote for her in a theoretical general election.
But just because she's the "front-runner"
more then two years before the election doesn't
mean I have to support her now.
It takes courage to admit she's the frontrunner.
Some people will try to take your head off for saying that.
No one from Daily Kos or who regularly reads the
site has claimed that the poll is supposed
to reflect what the 'general public' thinks.
It reflects that Hillary is not that popular at dailykos.
Nothing more.
Adam in Vermont
The message sent isn't always the message received.
That's why when this mess started, I asked for clarification
on the Kos page.
The bet was just in case Kos stood behind the can't-be-legit poll on
his site, I'd make a fast $500.