You know, fair enough LH, and I get the point you are making, but these are the people we have now, so whatever your hopes were for change,Kucinich is gone. I admire him tremendously, but he backed out in this election WAY earlier than last time, and he has come out in support of Obama/Biden. I know you know that, but at this point, its no use arguing about the rules such as they are now-flawed and broken.