The Bridal Shower Straw Poll
June 20, 2007
You may have been hearing all this stuff about how McCain and Rudy are opting out of the Iowa Straw Poll. What you may not have heard about is this new straw poll that has emerged in lower Manhattan on last Saturday afternoon.
I was at my friend’s bridal shower, eating tasty crustless finger sandwiches and raspberry champagne cocktails (no lie – we were all wearing cute sundresses too. This was for real.) The festivities culiminated in a rousing game of Who Knows Their Financee Best, in which both halves of the happy couple took a quiz about each other. One of the questions:
If the election were tomorrow, who would (bride/groom) vote for: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, or Bill Richardson?
I was super-psyched to see that my pal Bill had been upgraded by the Quizmaster to top tier candidate. And here’s the kicker: Bride said she thought groom would vote for Hillary. Groom said he thought bride would vote for Obama. But… wait for it… both said they would actually vote for Richardson. I know it’s a small sampling pool, but that’s a pretty serious landslide victory. (Also, this week on NPR’s It’s All Politics, Ken and Ron - who have some pretty substantial political street cred – said they liked Richardson’s chances in Iowa, even though he was not technically one of the “top three.”
So there you go. Bill Richardson rocks (and he’s funny). You heard it here first.
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Timo | June 20, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Bill really is getting the shaft, isn’t he? I think that if the Dems gave him the nod, I would vote for him. Fortunately he knows that he’s getting the shaft and not being quiet about it.
As I was watching Nader and Amy Goodman on C-Span this weekend, I was reminded of what Nader always says about the electoral system and why it sucks so much–because it forces us to vote for “the least bad” candidate instead of the best one.
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Timo | July 16, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I had a similar experience over the weekend. A bunch of people were jawing on and on about the big three Dems, and which one they would vote for and all of that. The general consensus was with Obama until I mentioned Richardson. Every single one of us thought that he was actually the best candidate, but until his name was deliberately inserted into the conversation, he may as well not even have existed.