Daily Kos

Knock knock! Who's here?

by nussbaumski

Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:14:58 PM PDT

I'm really curious what has happened to the Daily Kos readership over the course of primary season. It's pretty clear that we tipped over to Obama's side pretty heavily, and then there was the "strike". So I was just wondering who's still here -- is it all Obama all the time? Are there Hillary lurkers? How many people are sick of primary season -- and of those, who's still here posting on non-primary topics and who has left?

Legal scholar Cass Sunstein had an argument about how the internet is harmful to open debate because it fractures us into multiple non-interacting camps that make people's opinions more extreme. I don't necessarily agree with the claims he makes, but I wonder whether the dynamics of Daily Kos over the past few months support his point of view?

Poll

I am:

51%43 votes
38%32 votes
4%4 votes
0%0 votes
0%0 votes
0%0 votes
2%2 votes
2%2 votes

| 83 votes | Vote | Results

Tags: Clinton, Obama, Discourse (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

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  •  Tips for reconciliation and defeating McCain :) (3+ / 0-)

    Recommended by:
    kate mckinnon, Katie71, sovery

    I'm 99% sure we're going to reconcile swiftly after we select a candidate -- my guess is sometime in June. The Daily Kos will go back to normal -- or at least normal for whatever happens during the final few months of a presidential election season.

    Apologies if the poll directs you to unappealing options -- please fill in the blanks in the comments. Thanks!

    by nussbaumski on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:17:09 PM PDT

    •  I've been here since the beginning, and (0+ / 0-)

      support Obama with great zeal.  I had nothing against Hillary Clinton (in fact I stuck up for them through Whitewater, through impeachment, etc.) until she went negative in the primaries.

      She lost me cold after that.  

      But of course, being a good Democrat, I would vote for her in the general if it were Clinton up against McCain. I hope it doesn't come to that.

      by kate mckinnon on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:30:30 PM PDT

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  •  Sorry I couldn't vote twice (0+ / 0-)

    The first two choices in your poll are not mutually exclusive, you know. (violation of Polling 101)

    Oh, he don't score at bowlarama Still you gotta thank his mama Lets hear it for the boy Hear it for my man Let's hear it for my baby

    by RudiB on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:19:36 PM PDT

  •  first two poll choices together, please eom (0+ / 0-)

    "So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy." -Roger Baldwin

    by voila on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:19:57 PM PDT

  •  You neglected the category of "hold your nose (0+ / 0-)

    but reluctantly vote for Hillary", if, God forbid, it's required to beat McCain.

    "We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." ---Gwendolyn Brooks

    by Fasaha on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:20:37 PM PDT

  •  Obama supporter, media basher, (0+ / 0-)

    and diary pimper, reporting for duty...

    Show of hands... who would join Kucinich's effort to impeach VP Cheney?

    by Mogolori on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:21:09 PM PDT

  •  Sorry,... (2+ / 0-)

    Recommended by:
    kfred, itsolivia

    ...I'm not really here anymore.  Otherwise I would post a comment.

    Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

    by boran2 on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:21:31 PM PDT

  •  I support Obama (0+ / 0-)

    I will actively campaign for the Democratic nominee.  

    I do not hate the Clintons.  I will not have to hold my nose to vote for Hillary if she gets the nod.

    But I often do not bother to even post a comment because of the overwhelming responses in the past.  People like me not bothering to comment make the community seem more one sided than it is, I think.

    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -=-H. L. Mencken

    by crazyshirley2100 on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:26:05 PM PDT

  •  I will vote for either of them. (0+ / 0-)

    I detest the negative campaigning, whoever does it.

    As much of a 'lightweight' comment this is I would love to see a combined ticket. By lightweight I mean, I can't write detailed analysis of each candidate and each campaign. I understand it, but my writing skills suck.

    by Bernie68 on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:59:33 PM PDT

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