Difference between revisions of "2008 US presidential race"

Revision as of 23:15, 16 October 2007

Overview

This page is for information about the race (i.e. the candidates and their stands on various issues) for the upcoming 2008 US presidential election, which is bound to be a watershed event whichever way it goes.

Related Pages

This page is written from a standpoint of assuming that the voting process will proceed properly and democratically; for details and concerns about the actual voting, see 2008 US presidential election.

Candidates

Listing of people considered either candidates or possible candidates:

Barack Obama (D)
Dennis Kucinich (D)
Hillary Clinton (D): much discussed, not officially running yet; hated by Republicans; David Brin says "No senators!"
John Edwards: has formally announced candidacy
John McCain launched presidential campaign on 2006-04-25
Mitt Romney (R)
Ron Paul (R)
Rudy Guiliani (R) (is he running, or just campaigning for other Republicans?): current mayor of New York; says "If a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.... Never ever again will this country ever be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense!" (This statement is so full of... gaaah.)

Links

Reference

Wikipedia: United States presidential election
Campaigns Wikia: United States presidential election
table of issues x positions
Pick Your Candidate: lets you pick your position on about 20 issues, then shows you a list of candidates ranked by how closely their stated views agree with yours
- statistics from the above survey

Articles

2007-07-27 What Are the Democratic Candidates Really Saying about Iraq? by Ira Chernus: how to decipher the doublespeak (related: US invasion of Iraq)

News

2007-10-14 Groups on left, right ask candidates to reject Bush's wider powers: "President Bush's drive to expand executive power over surveillance, detention, interrogation and the meaning of new laws has drawn largely ineffectual protests from Congress. But a group of liberals and a handful of prominent conservatives are pressing would-be successors to renounce those powers before they take office."
2007-06-05 GOP Candidates Weigh in on Scooter Libby Pardon (Related: 2007-07-02 Libby bail-out)

Humor

2007-07-14 I Drew This looks at the 4 main GOP candidates

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 * '''2007-07-27''' [http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/58063/ What Are the Democratic Candidates Really Saying about Iraq?] by Ira Chernus: how to decipher the doublespeak (related: [[US invasion of Iraq]])
 ===News===
+* '''2007-10-14''' [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/14/MN4ASL450.DTL Groups on left, right ask candidates to reject Bush's wider powers]: "[[George W. Bush|President Bush]]'s drive to [[Bush's elevation of presidential power|expand executive power]] over surveillance, detention, [[torture during GWB administration|interrogation]] and [[GWB signing statements|the meaning of new laws]] has drawn largely ineffectual protests from Congress. But a group of liberals and a handful of prominent conservatives are pressing would-be successors to renounce those powers before they take office."
 * '''2007-06-05''' [http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/6/5/234031/2453 GOP Candidates Weigh in on Scooter Libby Pardon] (Related: [[2007-07-02 Libby bail-out]])
 ===Humor===
 * '''2007-07-14''' [http://www.idrewthis.org/d/20070714.html I Drew This] looks at the 4 main [[US Republican Party|GOP]] candidates