michaelr, you are starting to sound like a Republican propagandist! Come on! Mosley Braun and Kucinich are not radicals by anyone's measure but Rush Limbaugh's and the neocons.

The state media in both Illinois and Ohio take these two candidates very seriously. Mosley Braun's candidacy is being championed by many NOW supporters, many in the Black Congressional Caucus, many in the progressive movement for peace and justice. Those people are all mainstream, not raving lunatics from the fringe.

Or are you suggesting that the only candidates that Americans will take seriously are fascist WASP males?

There are bigots who don't take Lieberman seriously because he is a Jew. But there is nothing "Middle American" or Midwestern about that point of view.

Or are you suggesting that America's bigots and backward looking navel gazers are only found in the Midwest and the South?

Wait--don't tell me--you live on one of the coasts, right?