The DesMoines Register tackles a truth that most of the media will never admit:
Kathleen Ferguson of Des Moines says nothing has changed four years later. She found one of those surveys on the Web site of WQAD-TV in the Quad Cities. She answered the 11 multiple-choice questions and decided how important each issue was to her.
The topics were Iraq, immigration, tax cuts, stem cell research, health care, abortion, Social Security, a line-item veto, ethanol, same-sex marriage and the death penalty.
Ferguson clicked "select a candidate," and up popped Kucinich.
She had family members take the test. Kucinich came in first or second.
She wondered what was going on. A lot of Democrats like what he has to say on the issues. Yet only a small percentage like him as their candidate.
"We're not all that liberal," Ferguson said. "Several of us are former Republicans. It's astonishing to see what we want was labeled too far-out liberal."
A lawyer she knows took the test, and another friend. Kucinich, Kucinich.
The last time I took one of those tests Connecticut Rep. Rosa Delauro popped up as the closest candidate to me on the issues. Dennis Kucinich and Ralph Nader were tied in a close second... And I am not all that liberal in my politics, considering I hold a strong belief in fiscal responsibility when it comes to spending. None of those matches surprised me at all. I am familiar with where most of the candidates stand on the issues that are important to myself.
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I'm sure many first inclinations are to think, why are our views in line with some deemed by the corporate media to be so out of the mainstream?
But what it really shows is how far the 'mainstream' is out of step with us.
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