...want the following people to be the Democratic nominee.
Feingold 32%
Clark 23%
Warner 11%
These top three in the daily kos poll don't strike me as radical left-wingers. Warner, the most centrist of the bunch, was in single digits this summer.
UPDATE II- Clark gets major props today for his speech on Monday. "And as for the partisan charge that Democrats are living in a pre-9/11 world, let us be very clear: the policies followed by this Administration since 9/11 - the belligerent tone, the unilateralism, the excessive reliance on military force are not making us safer; they are increasing the dangers we face abroad and distracting us from the most important challenges here at home."UPDATE - Feingold gets major props today for his questioning of Alberto Gonzales during his confirmation hearing. In a letter to the attorney general yesterday, Feingold demanded to know why Gonzales dismissed the senator's question about warrantless eavesdropping as a "hypothetical situation" during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January 2005. At the hearing, Feingold asked Gonzales where the president's authority ends and whether Gonzales believed the president could, for example, act in contravention of existing criminal laws and spy on U.S. citizens without a warrant.
Gonzales said that it was impossible to answer such a hypothetical question but that it was "not the policy or the agenda of this president" to authorize actions that conflict with existing law. He added that he would hope to alert Congress if the president ever chose to authorize warrantless surveillance, according to a transcript of the hearing.For republicans "hypothetical" means "we have not been caught doing that yet".