Heading Into Las Vegas, 'Inconvenient Candidate' Kucinich Capturing the Votes of Core, Activist Democratic Base

    LAS VEGAS, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With recent national
 polls showing that Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is sweeping the
 issues-oriented, activist base of the Democratic Party, the 20-to-1 Vegas
 long-shot heads into Thursday's Presidential debate as the "inconvenient
 candidate," challenging the front runners on the war in Iraq, foreign
 trade, health care reform, and the Constitutional remedy of impeachment.
 
     Last week, Kucinich was the top vote-getter in 47 of 50 states in an
 online poll sponsored by Democracy for America, the grassroots Democratic
 organization founded in 2004 by former Vermont Governor, former
 Presidential candidate, and current chairman of the Democratic National
 Committee, Howard Dean. Kucinich even out-polled former Vice President and
 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore, whose supporters mounted a huge
 write-in campaign to encourage Gore to enter the race.
 
     This week, Kucinich is far ahead of fellow candidates Sen. Barack Obama
 and former Sen. John Edwards in a poll sponsored by the progressive "The
 Nation." A few weeks ago, Kucinich came in a strong second to Edwards in
 the largest straw poll in the state of California, and his ascent in
 several prominent national polls puts him significantly ahead of Senators
 Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, and in a statistical deadlock with New Mexico
 Governor Bill Richardson.
 
     "Posturing, triangulation, and denial may be the approaches that the
 other candidates take on Thursday night, but the uncomfortable truth is
 that their records do not support their rhetoric, and their positions do
 not reflect the beliefs of Democratic voters or the will of the American
 people," the Kucinich campaign said today.
 
     "When the media stop conveniently and superficially portraying this as
 a horse race and start delving into the issues that Americans really
 believe are important, then we'll have a meaningful conversation on the
 future of our nation and the future of the world. Until then, many media
 reports and media commentaries should be discounted as glib dismissals of
 substance and embarrassingly sycophantic droolings supporting favored
 candidates," the campaign said in its statement.
 
 
 
 

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