Still haven't voted...

[danaeris]

I'm leaving it to the last minute so I can do more research.

At first glance, I strongly match Kucinich better than Dean. So as a protest vote, voting for Kucinich would make the most sense.

But I just read up on delegates, and if they are as important as I suspect they are, getting Dean more delegates might be very worthwhile.

So it comes down to the value of delegates vs. the value of a protest vote (which might also get Kucinish delegates, but not as many).

Now I just have to figure out what I want on all the other initiatives, etc.

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[miss-mimsy.livejournal.com]

I voted for Dean. I figure that although he probably won't win the election, if he has enough support, he might be on Kerry's ticket.

[cos]

There's also a really big difference in terms of what the two campaigns were trying to accomplish. Kucinich is in the race to raise a specific set of issues, from the ideological left, which have been left out of the party recently. The Dean campaign has focused mainly on democratizing the party, and American politics, and is actually accomplishing a lot towards that. Dean himself has been very non-ideological, which allowed us to get people who support Kucinich's issues together with people who really don't, working on a common cause. Interactive campaign blogs, large scale small-donor fundraising, house meeting based person-to-person field organizing, meetups, lots of new candidates for local office who never got involved in politics before, higher voter turnout, more intelligent political discourse - that's the sort of thing voting for Dean promotes. Right now, I think that is a much higher priority than any particular set of issue stands, because candidacies like Kucinich's don't stand a chance unless we redemocratize our politics first.