Full disclosure: I am a registered Independent (so I can’t vote in the primaries) who has voted Democratic my entire life. Although my original top-choice ticket was Gore/Obama, I would be comfortable with any of the Democratic candidates except Gravel. Getting rid of the Republicans at the national level seems to me a matter of life-or-death urgency.
I have been reading Daily Kos for about six or seven months, until recently as a lurker. I have enjoyed the site, because it always seemed ahead of the curve, and there was a variety of useful information and some clear, compelling writing in many of the diaries. Although the site embraced a wide range of experiences, ages and personalities, I felt I was among kindred spirits who shared my basic beliefs, at least about our country and the world.
Lately, however, the tone of the site has shifted, and I’m increasingly reading diaries and comments here that I didn’t expect to find among my cohorts.
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