The Dreaded Political Poll...

[shadowkat]

[ETA: Apologies - apparently I spelled Bernie Sanders, last name wrong. But hey at least I was consistent about it.]

After Book Club and work, where we skirted around the topic and then skirted back again, I'm curious as to where the political landmines lie on my livejournal flist and the degree to which I should avoid all things political. (Book club was doing a better job of skirting, work not so much -- cubical mate likes to rant about Trump on a daily basis.) I already know where they lie at work and on Facebook, and with family. The people on Facebook are pro-Bernie Saunders, the people at work are either pro-Trump, Clinton, Saunders or staying quiet. And the book club seems to be leaning towards Cruz or no one. Meanwhile my mother is actively campaigning for Clinton.

So a poll. For this poll - I attempted to list all the presidential candidates currently running, but got tired after listing over 20 of them. Most of which, I'd never heard of. I thought, geeze, there's a lot of presidential candidates. And here, I thought only ten people were running, turns out I was wrong. In case you are remotely interested - the complete list of currently registered Independent Candidates running for President on the Independent Ticket, can be found HERE:

[Poll #2035065]

I forgot to list undecided. Damn it.

I tend to stay away from this topic, because...blood pressure inducing. But I'm curious to see where my flist falls. Are you all Bernie Saunder's fans? Or are you all Trump fans? (Ghod, I really really hope not. But one never knows...Honestly I can't imagine a Trump fan reading and enjoying my journal, but stranger things have happened.)

Currently, I don't feel strongly about any of the candidates...except that I'll probably have to move to New Zealand if Trump wins. The man has dead eyes.

[ETA: Apparently there is 1524 people who are running for president of the US. As an aside? This sort of reminds me of scrolling through television channels hunting for something to watch, over a thousand channels, and still, nothing is on!]

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[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I should have clicked Other in Comments instead of Not Listed.

Actually my husband is a candidate for the Green Party nomination (http://www.billkreml.org/), but Jill Stein (who's also not listed) (http://www.jill2016.com/) will get the nomination.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Whoa. You're right, Stein has a better chance, just because people know who she is. So much of it is "popularity" or "name recognition". It's sort of like everything else --- what has the greatest "name" recognition, gets picked. (And they say evil marketing people don't rule the world. ;-) )


When I was looking up the candidates to put on the poll last night....which was around 11:30 at night (still wired from book club), I had great aspirations. I thought, I know, I'll list all the possible candidates. Then, I did a little research....Oh dear lord, this is reminding me of hunting for new books to suggest for book club at Barnes and Noble. And, I think there are more candidates running for president of the US than there are recently released books in paperback on display at Barnes and Noble.

The list went on forever. I gave up after 40.

Quite a few of the Republicans have dropped out already. Former Governor of NY, Pataki, withdrew a month or so ago. I remember thinking at the time..."wait, you were running?" Apparently he withdrew due to lack of interest, and I thought, yeah, nobody knew you were running.

Bloomberg's threatening to run - which scared my book club, but amuses me greatly, because a lot of my co-workers who are supporting Trump (because he's a business man) would leap over to Bloomberg (because he's a more qualified businessman).

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

1524 people have filed to run for president (http://www.fec.gov/press/resources/2016presidential_form2nm.shtml) (or at least to try to get nominated). I'm not sure why a lot of them do it. Bill wanted to be able to make speeches about his political ideas--he's run in other elections to do that.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Whoa...this reminds me of scrolling through television channels...over a thousand channels, and still nothing is on. LMAO.

I want to move to Canada. I sort of like Trudeau.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Not all of those have raised the $5000 to qualify as a candidate--probably most of them won't.

I like Trudeau, too. Hope they'll be ready when all these southern immigrants start streaming across the border.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think almost all of Chicago and NY may jump across the border if Trump wins. (hey, it's close.) Canada may have to put a wall....


In NY, you have to get at least 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot. So a lot will disappear after the caucuses and primaries. Has New Hampshire happened yet? That usually cuts a lot of them from the ballot. New Hampshire and Iowa. By the time it gets to NY, the choices have narrowed down a bit.

[ann1962]

Well, they processed a bunch of the Syrian refugees pretty quickly, so I'm sure the Americans will move as smoothly.

(Totally why I've kept my Canadian citizenship.)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Lucky. ;-)

One of my friends in college had dual citizenship - English and American, but she had to choose which to keep sometime around her 21st birthday, I think.

[ann1962]

Trudeau hit the ground running, using his new stage as a way to show how things should, and could, be done.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Which I think works better in Canada than it does here...because Saunders is trying to do the same thing, and it doesn't quite play due to Congress.