Yahoo! reports a poll that 2/3 of Democrats can't name a candidate

I hope this is not a duplicate and that this link works.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=3&u=/ap/20030831/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_poll_1

these results are appalling but not surprising. What can be done to get people more involved?

don't you think? I don't believe it - people may not be able to name all of them but they know most of them. Could also be because they're kept off television - have to keep room for george.

Dean '04...

Nobody but freaks like us are paying attention at this point. It's summer. Makes all the bloodletting here seem a bit overwrought, yes?

It shows that * is probably a lot more vulnerable than indicated since people aren't even hearing from the Democrats yet.

I remember 1992 and I had never even heard of Bill Clinton before someone in my college dorm told me tha he had won the presidency.

In 2000 I wasn't paying attention to the race until March of 2000. Gore had already basically won the nomination by then. I hadn't heard of Bill Bradley until a bit later that year. And, if it wasn't for right-wing radio and right-wing pundits, I wouldn't have known who Al Gore was before 1999.

I'll bet that most folks are exactly the same way that I *was*. :)

and, hell, they're married to 'em!

I was at the local Italian Festival in Scranton, where parties set up booths. Greens were represented, Republicans were, and the Reforms were... no Democrat stand at all.

I don't know why, really, but I suspect it is the DLC method of pandering to the center that is slowly killing the party. I also see a great number of people here taking it as a foregone conclusion that pandering to the left-wing in this country would produce nothing, as there is no left-wing, and everyone is in the center. That is crap, in my opinion. I even saw a 'Democratic Strategist' on MSNBC the other day waxing political with an anchor-women. They both were saying the word 'left' and the term 'moving to the left' like it was a bad thing.

The right panders to the right, and they have nothing to stand on, and look what is has done to them.

It's political junkies that know the candidates 'now'... It won't be long until they do however.

The only people who pay attention to far off political races in the summer are political junkies (like us), the rest don't start paying attention until around January or so. Hopefully, the Sept. debates will raise the profile of this horse race a little.

If anyone reads a newspaper or watches television, they would be able to name at least one, right? People went to the bookstore the other week and had Howard Dean staring them in the face on 3 major magazines.

That this primary is far from over. Actually I went to work and had that looking at magazine stands that is. Lately when I was doing some research at Time for an article, I typed in Dennis Kucinich didnt get an article on DK and above all the articles that I got were not about DK, were about Nader or Dean. BTW I am signed online so if you want to talk to me you can.

... a year before the convention and and six months before the first primary.

That is not necessarily a bad thing.

:( Thats so unfortunate, hes been just as outspoken as Dean has and he totally opposed the war, no offense to Dean but we know he supported the war with UN consent. Dennis argues that the war was wrong legally and above all just wrong morally.