Howard Dean leader in MoveOn.org online Democratic primary with 43.87 percent; no candidate wins majority
More voters participated in MoveOn.org online primary than in 2000 New Hampshire, Iowa, and S. Carolina Democratic primaries COMBINED!
The results are in: 317,639 people voted in this week's online mock primary at MoveOn.org. Quite a turnout, even though those people represent a relatively small percentage of eligible U.S. voters who use the Internet.
Howard Dean outdistanced the rest of the pack with 139,360 votes, or 43.87 percent, nearly double runner-up Dennis Kucinich's 23.93% (76,000 votes). John Kerry came in third with 15.73 percent (49,973 votes). John Edwards was fourth, with 3.19 percent (10,146 votes); Richard Gephardt fifth with 2.44 percent (7,755 votes); Bob Graham sixth with 2.24 percent (7,113 votes). Carol Moseley Braun came in seventh, with 2.21 percent (7,021 votes); Joe Lieberman was eighth with 1.92 percent (6,095 votes), and Al Sharpton placed ninth with 0.53 percent (1,677 votes).
Meanwhile, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court's none-of-your-beeswax ruling on consensual sex between adults in private, a New Jersey Superior Court judge heard oral arguments today in a suit brought by seven same-sex couples who claim the Constitution's guarantees of equality and privacy also give them equal marriage rights. The couples have been together from 10 years to 30 years, and were all denied licenses when they attempted to wed. Judge Linda Feinberg said she would rule on the case in two months, at the earliest.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who vehemently dissented in yesterday's 6-3 ruling, said the high court's decision "leaves on shaky grounds state laws limiting marriage to opposite sex couples." He didn't think that was good news, but a lot of other people do.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @3:27 PM