Not Your Sweetie

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by RandomUser on 02/12/2004 08:48:52 AM EST

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Stop trying to make a play for Clark supporters for whatever candidate you're espousing.  If we choose to vote Clark, that is our choice.  If we choose not to, that too is our choice.
No candidate will gain a windfall from Clark, because Clark is unique in that he overlaps all the other candidates.  This is why Clark was and is  so special.
Clark and Kerry draw from the same veteran/national security/foreign policy oriented voters.  Clark and Edwards draws from the southern oriented voters.  Clark and Dean draw from the same grassroots nonestablishment outsider antiwar voters.
If Kerry, Edwards, or Dean withdraws, the majority of their support would probably migrate to Clark.  But when Clark withdrew, the majority of his supporters would not go to any specific candidate.  At best, it would split and none of them will gain a comparative advantage from Clark's withdrawal.
So whatever candidate you espouse, if you think any of them will gain a relative advantage from Clark leaving, you are wrong.  Clark's support is broad because it overlaps the voters of ALL the other candidates.  Any who choose to go to another supporter will go to the one that shares that single trait with Clark that they were looking for.  None of the remaining candidates will get a comparative advantage over the others out of Clark leaving.
So please go away.
Clark is unique.  He was the only one who combined the strengths of ALL the other candidates.  The others are all incomplete, flawed, compromised tradeoffs, and lesser of two evils with Bush.
I'll still be voting against Bush, but don't expect me to agree that your candidate is better than Clark.