More Gore good news

If you have been tuned into the Democracy for America (DFA) Pulse Poll that's been going on, they closed that poll last evening. The winner (for whatever an on-line poll of this sort means) was Dennis Kucinich, who apparently really cranked up his supporters on the web to vote in the DFA poll. However, what we can all take heart in was that in second place was Al Gore - and you had to take extra steps to write his name in on the poll. He had been leading up until about 4 or 5 days ago when it was obvious that the Kucinich people on the web got the word around to vote. But, the Gore people were doing the same thing, so I guess we can't faulth them too much.

However, good news for us New Yorkers - Gore was the leader in New York votes. He beat Kucinich by a couple of points. The "media" front-runners (Edwards, Obama, Clinton) trailed and Clinton was way back (< 5%) with the DFA crowd. Not too surprising, I guess.

Now, we've got to show all New York that Gore can get on the ballot and can win the state for real. I am once again putting out an appeal for help this Saturday at the Public Market (9am in front of Java Joe's to meet and we'll spread out from there). It is critical that we keep up the momentum we got started last week. And, for those of you who might not be able to do the direct person-to-person appeal, we may have a chance to do some phoning of people (or emailing them) in the near future to try to get more folks actively involved in this effort - or at least signing a petition.