RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
03/07/04
Ohio Democrats tended to be more issue-oriented and less liberal than their counterparts in other big Super Tuesday primary states. Only 35 percent of the Ohio voters surveyed as they left polling places said their decision was based mainly on finding someone who could defeat President Bush in November.
Contrast that with New York or Connecticut, where 45 percent listed beating Bush as their prime motivator. Instead, in Ohio, where the economy was the most important issue, 56 percent voted for candidates who agreed with them on major issues, according to the National Election Pool Survey.
"Checking the ethics meter
Kucinich's determination to stay in the race for the Democratic nomination has people talking about whether he's wise, crafty, egotistical or all three. But one man, ethicist Jack Marshall of Washington, says Kucinich's resolve is certainly ethical, even if it's not unyieldingly loyal to Democratic leadership.
"Kucinich scales off the charts of any ethics evaluation, once one concludes (as it took me unusually long to do) that his occasionally extreme positions were sincerely held and not just posturing," Marshall, a former lawyer and former assistant dean at the Georgetown Law Center, said in an e-mail exchange.
"Is it ethical to stay in the race?" Marshall asked, echoing a question we had asked after hearing that Marshall ranked candidates on an ethics scale. "Clearly his message is very different from either Bush's or Kerry's. He believes it is an important message, and thus there is nothing wrong with his staying around to carry it. . . . All in all, Kucinich's determination to stick around gains him points for courage, integrity, perseverance, truth-telling and fortitude . . . ethical conduct all."
In other rankings, Marshall has listed Kerry as "on the slippery slope," with "some ethically dicey conduct, though nothing major." President Bush came out slightly worse because of his State of the Union address trumpeting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "He is not the liar his opponents claim him to be," Marshall writes, "but he needs to elevate his performance." "
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