With All the Talk about "Change," Would the Leading Candidates Really Bring the Change the U.S. People Want?

[RichardV]

Change regarding the number one issue with voters: the U.S. Military Occupation of Iraq.

According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll, 25% of Americans favor immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. Yet, according to a study by NBC News political director Chuck Todd, the candidates advocating immediate withdrawal, Democrats Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich and Republican Ron Paul, have received 11% (167 minutes out of 1,460) of the speaking time on the eleven Democratic and ten Republican nationally televised debates. Rasmussen also found that another 38% of the country say they want all troops home within a year. However, the chart accompanying Todd?s December 28, New York Times opinion piece indicates that when the time allotted Democrat Bill Richardson, a candidate who advocates one-year withdrawal, is added to that of the above three candidates, a grand total of 19% of the network time has gone to candidates supporting positions held by 63% of the country.

[hummerdude9384]

most likely not were talking about a guy that was to lazy to even go to the senate and vote. he is lazy! we do need change but hell anyone can bring change after bush

[JimH]

if you assume that is the only change a democratic president would make then,yes.
the rest will continue as usual.
you should consideer the other issues too.

[rabblerouser]

I don't think any *reasonable* candidates are advocating that we pull out over night and just pretend that nothing happened...

But then there is Ron Paul...

[Janet8142]

You complicated your question too much with all the percentages, totals, etc. to the point where I don't really know what you want from an answer. I think this is a perfect example of how we try to quantify everything in the media these days. We are getting obssessed with numbers.

[Amy6133]

Honestly? The change we need to see has to come from within the people. We need to start understanding that politicians are politicians, and that's not going to change any time soon because we ALLOW them to be that way. They're conditioned to behave that way now.

The people in this country need to take back the power, the way it was supposed to be. We need to remember that every politician, from the President of the United States down to the Recorder of Deeds in each county, works FOR US, not the other way around. We have an unhealthy politician-worship going on in this country, and it's eventually going to destroy us. They are not better than us. They are our employees.