Advice wanted: U.S. politics

[redbird]

Okay. New York has a Democratic presidential primary tomorrow.

I will vote: this is given. But I haven't decided who to vote for. Kerry and Edwards have both said they're against gay marriage, so it's going to be a bit of holding my nose regardless. I'm tempted to vote for Kerry, but that's partly because I'm sick of the whole "only a southerner can win" which seems to come down to the assumption that southerners are too prejudiced to vote for northerners, whereas the reverse isn't true, so we have to cater to their [perceived] prejudices.

Policy reasons--that is, the candidates' stated position or records--for voting for any of the remaining Democratic candidates are hereby solicited. Post early; we generally vote in the morning.

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Re:

[jholomorphic.livejournal.com]

Al Sharpton supports: DC enfranchisement; abortion rights (unlike Kucinich, as Kirsten has pointed out); same-sex marriage, as well as equal rights for gays and lesbians in general and insists that it be done at a federal level so that states can't abridge these rights; slavery reparations; returning voting rights to felons after completion of their sentences. Opposes the death penalty, recent American wars, trade pacts lacking environmental provisions.

Divisive, obnoxious, and trailing much baggage ...

[volund.livejournal.com]

Al Sharpton is also a willing tool of the type of skanky Republicans, such as Roger Stone (http://villagevoice.com/issues/0405/barrett.php), who are looking to gum up the works so as to help keep the current regime in power.

He can afford to talk so purty because he hasn't a chance in hell. His power lies in being the distraction to which attention must be paid, and the people around him have gone to some pretty unsavory lengths to ensure that that attention is paid to him.

I'd never be able to vote for that, no matter how prettily it was dressed.