Please vote in Coastsider’s presidential poll

Comment 1 by Mary Bordi  on  Jun 28  at  9:44am  •  All my comments • 

Could you post periodic updates of your poll someplace here on Coastsider so those of us who can’t access the poll can see the results?

All I get is a message that I need to update to the current version of Flash and a link to the download. Not sure yet if I want to do that yet.

Comment 2 by Barry Parr  on  Jun 28  at  9:54am  •  All my comments • 

Thanks for asking. I’ve added a link in th story to the full results at ElectionVine.

Thanks for posting the Presidential Poll, Barry. It is encouraging to see Barack Obama in the lead. I am organizing Coastside residents to volunteer locally for Obama. I invite anyone who wants to have some fun and do community outreach over the summer to contact me. It’s an exciting campaign and the people who support Barack are a lively and engaging group.

Thanks so much,

April Vargas

Sadly, there is nothing in this poll that I can see that allows a preference for anything but the single two-sided political machine that runs the country. No “none-of-the-above,” write-in, or other party preferences permitted. Thus, the purposeful political independent or other-party advocate is “disenfranchised” by the poll and the poll perpetuates the deadening impression it is the money-grubbing Demopublicans or nothing.

Carl May

Carl, do you know that there’s a Libertarian listed in the choices? Hint: When he re-registered as a Republican he got himself elected to Congress. Just because he’s registered and listed as R doesn’t mean that that’s what he really is. Some local Libertarians are going all-out in support of Ron Paul’s campaign. Check his voting record — he isn’t a Demopublican.