CANDIDATE RATING (d)

Ratings of these democrat presidential candidates are Linden's and do not represent the results of any poll. Sequence is position, score out of an apportioned 100, candidate name and comments. Preliminary comments will precede the two groupings.

In order to not report ties, those within each group were put in alphabetic order and scores apportioned accordingly in order to arrive at 100.

Surely this is the least impressive list of presidential candidates of all time. I say again, a name chosen at random from a list of taxpayers may well be preferable to any of these.

1. 22 Biden I've seen on TV. How did he ever get elected to any office?

2. 21 Dodd I've seen on TV. How did he ever get elected to any office?

3. 19 Gravel I've been spared from knowing anything about him. One is
known by the company they keep.

4. 18 Richardson A mixture of above thoughts.


Would you rather be bitten or nipped by a rabid weasel, rat, parakeet, or bat?

5. 7 Clinton - weasel

6. 6 Edwards - rat

7. 4 Kucinich - parakeet

8. 3 Obama - bat
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HOPE and PRAYER are not synonomous but are slightly related: In this vein, you should note that Linden hopes that the Republicans will field a candidate in the districts listed below. Shown in District, State and current officeholder sequence.

19 Florida Wexler
20 Florida Wasserman-Schultz
23 Florida Hastings

5 Georgia Lewis

12 Illinois Costello

5 Maryland Hoyer
7 Maryland Cummings

Even if these Districts can reasonably be considered "lost causes," the affected taxpayers need to have a choice.
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