The National Journal Stops Ranking Kucinich And Gravel
While going through my feeds a few minutes ago I noticed something interesting in the MSNBC Politics feed. The summary of the biweekly MSNBC/National Journal Democratic Presidential Rankings read as follows (emphasis mine):
This is the scrutiny quarter as far as the primary is concerned, and no one will face harsher glares than Hillary Rodham Clinton. (By the way, we're not going to rank Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel anymore.
On the story itself that last bit in parentheses has been removed but they still don't rank them.
So now I'd like to ask you all a question: when is it time to start narrowing down the candidates? What criteria should a candidate have to meet to be considered viable?
7 comments:
David! They removed that parens!! At least - it's not at the link anymore.
okay - here's the link:
http://nationaljournal.com/racerankings/wh08/democrats/
Well, gee, you'd think maybe polling would matter. But apparently it doesn't, since Dennis out-polls Dodd and sometimes Biden in state after state. I get the feeling that inside the Beltway, it's that snarky, smirky, dismissive attitude that really drives the decision to "drop" a candidate!
@Jill:
It was MSNBC's RSS feed but I never actually saw it on the MSNBC site though. I guess they thought dropping that might cut down on the hate mail they'll get over it.
@Jeff:
I tend to agree with you. If they're going to drop these two they might as well just drop everyone except Clinton and Obama.
David;
The field should be narrowed down after the first primaries. Up until then we should hear from the non-main-stream candidates until then. Otherwise it gives the big parties too much strength. All Americans should be leery of the big parties and the power they control.
I wouldn't handicap the mainstream candidates but I do think that everyone has the same right to run and should be treated equally.
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