Difference between revisions of "2008 US presidential race"

Revision as of 01:30, 30 July 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

2007-06-05 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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 ==Overview==
-[[category:events]]This page is for information about the upcoming 2008 {{USA}} presidential election, which is bound to be a watershed event whichever way it goes.
+[[category:events]]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==
-Many people fear that the democratic process will in some way be subverted with regard to this election, including the following possibilities:
+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]].
-* The election will be rigged, as were the [[2000 US presidential election|2000]] and [[2004 US presidential election|2004]] elections, and another [[neoconservative]] [[kleptocrat]] supported (perhaps covertly) by the [[Bush II administration|current administration]] will officially win even though an accurate vote would have elected a different candidate.
-* Bush will declare [[martial law]], or otherwise use the [[Bush's elevation of presidential power|enhanced presidential powers]] he has been allowed to claim &ndash; possibly in the wake of some kind of national emergency like [[9/11|the one which allowed him to gain those powers]] &ndash; and there will either be ''no'' election (completing the next step in the [[Nehemiah Scudder]] scenario) or one that is severely curtailed and inaccurate.
 ==Candidates==