Since Election Day 2004, we’ve kept track of committed support for various 2008 presidential contenders, indicated by sales of Election 2008 bumper stickers, magnets, campaign buttons, t-shirts and yard signs. While polls measure fickle opinions, our measure tracks the stronger commitment marked by the laying down of cash to promote a candidate in public. The more strongly committed are more likely to caucus and to vote. The following is the percent share of sales of our Election 2008 gear in the past week of February 10 to February 16, 2008:
Barack Obama 2008: 86.7%
Hillary Clinton 2008: 11.9%
Mike Gravel 2008: less than 1%
Others: 1.3%
In past months, there’s been a fair chunk of detail to talk about, but the result here is pretty straightforward. This is the third week in a row of blowout results favoring Barack Obama, and the margin of that blowout is getting larger.
WHERE DUTY CALLS
Nader Gravel & Paul Kucinich
Awake from your slumber
4 Wise Men march with the people
Washington DC
Whistleblowers
Honesty compassion intelligence guts
Not carrots sticks coercive diplomacy
Divided we fall
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Ron Paul
Ralph Nader
No bribery blackmail extortion
Rage against the machine
Democracy rising democracy now
Suffer not
Ron Paul has got white supremacists and kooky conspiracy theories about Ameros. Mike Gravel has a political constituency in the 1970s. Ralph Nader has already had his chance three times. Dennis Kucinich is busy looking for UFOs and meeting with breatharians.
Wise men? Hardly.
Thank you, but I will not suffer under these fools.