Vote early and (reasonably) often
Pajamas Media is conducting a thoroughly unscientific but nevertheless intriguing online Presidential straw poll. You are allowed to vote once a week. Vote here — and the ongoing results can be viewed here. Again, Rudy Giuliani is showing surprising strength (as is Barack Obama). The names that intrigue, however, are the ones in second place ...
Pajamas Media is conducting a thoroughly unscientific but nevertheless intriguing online Presidential straw poll. You are allowed to vote once a week. Vote here -- and the ongoing results can be viewed here. Again, Rudy Giuliani is showing surprising strength (as is Barack Obama). The names that intrigue, however, are the ones in second place -- Dennis Kucinich and Newt Gingrich. As I said, onlinew straw polls like this one don't have a lot of scientific value -- but I have to wonder if the first thing the nascent campaign staffs of all the candidates do in the morning is go to sites like this to boost their candidates' standing. Typical early morning list: 1) Make coffee 2) Check e-mail 3) Vote in every online straw poll imaginable Of course, at this stage of the campaign there's another competition that matters greatly. The New York Times' Patrick Healy and Jeff Zeleny do a good job of covering the money race among the Dems.
Pajamas Media is conducting a thoroughly unscientific but nevertheless intriguing online Presidential straw poll. You are allowed to vote once a week. Vote here — and the ongoing results can be viewed here. Again, Rudy Giuliani is showing surprising strength (as is Barack Obama). The names that intrigue, however, are the ones in second place — Dennis Kucinich and Newt Gingrich. As I said, onlinew straw polls like this one don’t have a lot of scientific value — but I have to wonder if the first thing the nascent campaign staffs of all the candidates do in the morning is go to sites like this to boost their candidates’ standing. Typical early morning list:
1) Make coffee 2) Check e-mail 3) Vote in every online straw poll imaginable
Of course, at this stage of the campaign there’s another competition that matters greatly. The New York Times‘ Patrick Healy and Jeff Zeleny do a good job of covering the money race among the Dems.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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