Yup, time for another lazy default SNLC option (typical loser, that 3CM), namely a semi-regular SNLC loser poll. Admittedly, if I had done this poll 2 weeks ago, which I'll admit was mildly tempting, both President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry would have featured prominently on the poll, because of their stumbling through the Syria chemical weapons briar patch. However, in yet another case of "better to be lucky than good", they more or less got a lifeline on that issue, for the time being, through the offices of Vladmir Putin, of all people (and certainly someone you don't really want to count as some sort of a "good guy"). How that will play out in the long run, who knows.
Of course, there's plenty else to consider as far as loser candidates go, and not just in politics. As usual, this is a limited and selective roster, where I'm no doubt missing other possibilities, some probably very obvious. Many of the choices are clearly related to a single issue/situation, so there's the risk of diluting the vote in that way. Rather a joke to say that, given that the number of poll votes will be very small, IMHO (self's loser prediction will show up later). More, though not much more, below the flip....
The obvious case of potential vote dilution has to do with the smackdown that gun control advocates got in Colorado this month, with the recall of the two state senators thanks to the mean-spirited bullying of the gun lobby, besides the blind psychosis of gun nuts who don't realize that restrictions on objects that fire compressed metal projectiles which burst on impact with their targets and damage said targets as a result, often fatally, are eminently sensible. In the moral and philosophical sense, Angela Giron and John Morse are not losers, of course. Unfortunately, electorally, that's where they landed, in the "loser" column.
Of course, it doesn't help that Colorado voters who favor sensible gun control legislation didn't show up in enough numbers to keep Giron and Morse in office. PPP's foolishness in not releasing that pre-election poll that showed them a lot further behind than most thought. (Same reason why we're stuck with Tea Party jerks effing up government now; not enough Democrats showed up at the 2010 midterm elections to vote.) NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg is someone who doesn't get a whole lot of love on this site, understandably so, so in a general sense, seeing Bloomberg get a comeuppance is a good thing. However, it would have been so much better had the comeuppance not been on gun control, where for once, Bloomberg is more on the good than bad side.
The other case of multiple candidates and vote dilution has to do with Republican health care killers, of course. However, I can hazard a pretty good guess as to the most likely candidate to win this SNLC poll. Too bad he'll get re-elected in 2018, though.
BTW, segueing back to NYC, the reason for the inclusion of New York City Opera in the poll is encapsulated in this article (once you're past the picture of Sarah Joy Miller trying to channel Anna Nicole Smith), where Michael Cooper notes:
"City Opera’s board, facing a season it cannot pay for, voted on Thursday to start bankruptcy proceedings next week and wind down the company’s affairs if it fails to raise $7 million by Monday, said Risa B. Heller, a spokeswoman for the company.
It appears increasingly unlikely that the opera will meet that goal: officials said that the troupe had raised only about $1.5 million since it first made an urgent appeal for the $7 million this month."
New York City Opera has resorted to
a Kickstarter campaign, of all things, to try to raise $1M towards salvaging the company. You have to remember that New York City Opera isn't a start-up. It's been around for 70 years. Indiegogo might have been a more appropriate medium, but 6 of one, 1/2-dozen of the other.
The other loserly aspect about this poll, besides the diarist (which goes without saying), is that the month isn't even over yet. Over the next 2 days, anything could happen to up-end the poll and render it meaningless, even given that it's already meaningless. Oh, and the predicted # of voters, as promised: 15. With that, happy voting, and time for the usual SNLC protocol, namely your loser stories of the week......