Davis Square Area Presidential Poll

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Comments

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Davis Square is liberal? I don't believe it!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

It's all a front, actually; secretly, everyone here is going to vote for Ron Paul.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that joke hasn't turned up in Huckabee's official campaign materials yet. The guy terrifies me, politically speaking, but at least he's not one of those fundamentalist Christians alienated from popular culture.

R0n P4ul 2008

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

Not.

[ifotismeni]

ah yes, but which stripe of liberal? moonbat? limousine? etc etc

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Considering Hill's showing a lot stronger than in b0st0n I'd say the Square is actually surprisingly conservative.

I dislike Hillary's attitude towards censorship (she support federal legislation on video games), but then all the candidates kind of suck when it comes to free speech issues.

[ifotismeni]

i think age demographics might have something to do with it too -- this could be totally wrong, but i have a feeling there is larger ratio of, er, "young" voters to older ones in b0st0n than in the davis comm.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Obama's precedence bears you out. I have to wonder how HE'S going to play here. Boston is pretty much in the bag for him; most of the people leaning towards him sound like Boston residents. But the rest of the state? Who knows?

What I'm wondering is what'll happen if there are two candidates who are so close in delegates that they might take the nomination if they can talk the superdelegates over to their side. The conventions might actually be worth paying attention to for once!

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

Hillary has almost all of the superdelegates in the bag according to the CNN data...

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

That's because of her "inevitability" pitch. But if Obama has a strong showing and gets a lot of delegates behind him, they can quite easily change their minds.

[ifotismeni]

I really hope so. The conventions and delegates have felt increasingly irrelevant as of late, it'd be nice to feel like the whole thing's not decided by NH and SC for once.

the rest of the state is really anybody's guess. where i grew up in MA it's pretty conservative so i see a lot of signs on yards for mccain and paul, a few for romney still. obama has little hold there. even out in the happy valley he might have a tough fight with hillary supporters.

this is why i don't do politics reporting :P i really don't have any expertise here.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad that a woman and a black man are running so we don't have the usual P.C. wank about how "it's another white Protestant man blah blah blah."

[ron_newman]

Right now it says 12 for Hillary, 21 for Obama, which I don't consider an especially strong showing by Hillary. But let's take another look here at the end of the day.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. I posted that comment when Obama had only a two-vote lead. :-)

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Kuninich is the real moonbat, any everyone else is a limousine.

But I actually prefer the term "Mercedes Marxist".

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Because you have an oxymoron fetish?

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Its not an oxymoron, its ironic. It would only be an oxymoron if it wasn't true. These liberals are multi-millionaires.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you can't have a Mercedes if you're a Marxist. Unless you bought all the people a Mercedes.

[ron_newman]

Go far enough into Latin America and I'm sure you'll find some Marxists whose daughters have that name.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I like "Starbucks Democrat."

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.

I just thought of a good one:

Sushi Socialist

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Rush Limbaugh called. He wants his playbook back.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

HAH! Except I love sushi. Fish, please get in my belly.

I just like the Starbucks Democrat term because it so perfectly describes the way in which people who subscrube to the two main parties have changed in demographics, beliefs, and issue prioritization.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

LOL