"Inconvenient Candidate" Kucinich Heads Into Las Vegas Debate

November 14, 2007 -- LAS VEGAS, NV -- 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.

Source: Dennis Kucinich campaign

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