To Ohioans, one of their representatives to Washington running for president in the Democratic primary should be a good thing. However, instead of backing their native son, many continue to criticize his lack on involvement in getting things done for his home district while on a campaign trail running for an office he has no chance of winning. They lodged the same complain in 2004's election and Dennis Kucinich refused to back out of the process until the very end.
When he ran in 2004, he said it was because the current crop of candidates did nothing to stop the White House from starting the war in Iraq. His opinion of this year's candidates has not changed, and neither as the opinion of the voters. In polls posted at usaelectionpolls.com, is tied for last with Chris Dodd, another extremely long-shot candidate.
He provided levity during at least one Democratic debate when, during the short time he was given to speak, used it to address a question on his sighting of an unidentified flying object. Despite many other political and national figures having come forward to admit to seeing a flying object that they couldn't recognize, the other candidates at the forum took the time to lat him be a menace to himself.
Media attention is always focused on the top tier candidates and with Kucinich's dismal showing for the second consecutive time, the media chooses to put him in a category to watch, but only use resources on if he does something different. Joe Biden, Bill Richardson and Dodd all share the same stage with Kucinich and, according to the news media, are a candidate by title only.
Currently, Dennis is polling at 4% nationally according to USA Today and is at 5% in Washington, 4% in Ohio, and at 3% in a flurry of states like Nevada, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and New Hampshire.
