Just curious about how easy it is to set up a poll. Why not find out toward whom the CV readership is leaning these days? We promise your answers are not binding.
Updates: We are a famous physics blog!
And Ron Paul supporters have perfected a special brand of annoying.
And polls on the internet are useless.
None of which really qualifies as startling new information, I guess.
Like most of the mainstream press you omitted Dennis Kucinich. He is after all one of the Presidential candidates.
hey, what about Ron Paul? I will be voting for him. thanks.
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It’s early, but I think we can already see who has the lefty, hippie, atheist geek vote sewed up. But who voted for Thompson?
The grumpy libertarian demographic is well-represented among CV’s readership.
Um, where’s Ron Paul?… I hope digg doesn’t get a whiff of this ‘poll’…
One more here for Kucinich. I’m guessing you had limited space on the poll.
I was interested in people who actually have a chance of winning a nomination, not vanity candidates with less than 5% support. Sorry, deeply committed people of the internet!
I thought I’d read that Obama proposed a big cut in NASA’s budget to pay for education, though I can’t quickly find a reference to that. He kinda lost me on that one.
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Why not make all of these candidates president? People can then choose which of the candidates will be their president. This amounts to splitting the US up in different sovereign parts (but not geographically).
I vote for Ron Paul.
One of the so called “vanity” candidates has more votes in these comments than some of the candidates do in the poll…
Something to think about.
I vote for Ron Paul. He isn’t on there, but I’ll write him in.
I don’t get why people get all excited about Ron Paul. He’s a real republican conservative. Don’t try to pretend anything else. He’s also a lunatic.
I didn’t see a libertarian candidate, so I will go with Giulianni.
Voting Ron Paul. Interesting that those who support the Constitution are labeled “lunatic” in any context.
I vote for Kucinich anytime I can do so without affecting realpolitik – meaning in a close primary where my vote would really be important, I would go with my “best of those that might actually win” candidate. But generally, Oregon primaries are utterly irrelevant to the nominating process, so I like to throw all the weight I can behind the Gnome Of Justice.
Curious as to why ppl like Ron Paul. Is it just straight Libertarian stuff, he wants to do away with big parts of the Federal government, you like that idea? Or is it the anti-choice stealth-attack on Roe? The anti-torture bill is a good idea, and it includes limits on Presidential signing statements, which is great, is that it? He does seem to have an independent notion of foreign policy (against unlimited war powers, against Iraq war, for Afghan war, all of which I think is correct). Or what? He seems like a real contradictory figure, which usually either means Authentic Independent or Crazy Wingnut.
I am *not* being snarky here. I’d really like to know exactly what supporters do and do not like about him.
Oooh, pro-jury nullification. That’s a great position. Obscure and politically irrelevant, but I love it.
In all seriousness, can someone explain why they would admit to voting for Mike “The Creationist” Huckabee?
(disclosure: I am an Obama supporter, but I know that there are science lovers who are political conservatives; THAT I can understand. But a friggin CREATIONIST???)
Some of those other votes are Kucinich or Paul. One for Biden here.
I only have 3 candidates I would vote for President. I will not vote for anyone else as I don’t believe in contributing on the idea of the “lesser evil” notion.
None of these was represented in this poll…
Ron Paul
Dennis Kucinich
Mike Gravel
For a physics site, you’re pretty ignorant of how things work.
1 – People hear about a candidate
2 – People learn about a candidate
3 – People choose a candidate
Without #1, we can’t have a #2 or #3. That is why Ron Paul is only polling below 5% (except on the internet). No one knows about him. There is VERY limited opportunities for Presidential candidates if the 6 people that control our media don’t like them. Think about it… you control this site, you don’t like Ron Paul, so you omit him from your poll. Don’t you think Rupert Murdoch is doing the same thing?
Where is the science in this physics site? Is this poll anything close to scientific when you leave out most of the candidates?
As for WHY I support Ron Paul. Part of the answer is that I want to see 2 candidates to choose from (Rep and Dem) that I can live with. I can’t live with any other Rep than Paul because of his foreign policy stance. The rest of them may as well be neocons. So, if in the general election, it came down to Ron Paul vs Dennis Kucinich, then I would do some real thinking on all of the issues.
For me FOREIGN POLICY is our #1 issue, not abortion, not gay rights, FOREIGN POLICY… change that and you’ll fix many of our issues.
I’m not voting for any of ’em because I don’t like any of the candidates and can’t vote in primaries as a registered independent anyway in my state. Hmm…
I would like Ron Paul except for his abortion stance which sort of nullifies the rest of the pro-libertarian platform in my mind. The reason I suspect he has such a big following (on the Internets at least) is because Ron Paul is for the small government that Republicans are supposed to be for when they’re not getting all hissy about things that are none of the business. That’s what I figure at least.
Sorry Ron Paul supporters are annoying! I personally think he is the only good candidate. I’m not just some random guy, I have been reading CV for years. Its not that I love the guy, it’s just that all the other candidates are terrible. Please don’t dislike him because of annoying supporters.
Are you really sure that you want to vote for Ron Paul? He is totally against the right of a woman to control her own reproductive system. That alone is a show stopper for me. The government should stay the hell out of anything to do with the medical choices of individuals. That’s between them and their physicians.
And I suspect that as a libertarian, Paul would take a dim view of federally supported research at our universities. But I cannot really find anything he’s written or said on that subject.
Re: “He [Ron Paul] is totally against the right of a woman to control her own reproductive system.”
I believe his stance on abortion (that IS what you are referring to, right) is that it should not be a FEDERAL issue but a STATE issue. He believes that some states would vote to make abortion illegal while others would vote to make it legal. Or, which ever way the voting public feels it should be (instead of the federal gov’t voting for what they think the people want).
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/life-and-liberty/
Personally, he is pro-life, but I believe professionally, he will leave the decision up to the states. So, move if you don’t like the community you are living in.
OK, after reading this thread I’m officially terrified.
Interesting that so many on a thread by a physicist, who has written extensively on his atheism, advocate for a man deeply committed to, and passionate about, his quite alarming xTian fundamentalism (Ron Paul). And the suggestion that a variant/mutant form of interpretive readings of the US Constitution would allow some states to completely ignore the US Constitution and the XIVth Amendment seem beyond the pale. But then again, given the arguments above, it seems all sorts of people are in favor of Balkanizing the US in order to enact their personal and selfish agendas. I guess not much is different really between that and Bushco, except perhaps the various groups of people for whom the benefits of empowering personal agendas are manifest.
I’m kinda surprised that John McCain isn’t getting more support here. At least compared to the other repubs. I’m not voting republican, but if I were forced to, he seems like the only half-way moderate, thinking man’s candidate.