For the Democratic presidential candidate approximately 108 votes were garnered for their favorite person. Three people stood out taking in the most votes. Hillary Rodham Clinton garnered 35% (38 votes). Wesley Clarke garned 25% (27 votes). And Barack Hussein Obama took in 19% of the votes (20 votes).
For the Republican presidential candidate approximately 278 votes were garnered for their favorite person. Only one person stood out from the rest garnering 80% of the poll votes (220 votes) and that was for Fred Thompson. Rudy Guiliani stood a distant 2nd place with 6% of the votes (16 votes).
A question here.
Do these results show that deaf and hard of hearing Republicans are more attuned to politics than their respective Democratic supporters? Perhaps this could be true since I do not see a Democratic grass roots organization (e.g. "Deaf Democrats") run by deaf people. Well, that's not entirely true since there WAS one as it was mentioned in Daily Kos last year when one deaf guy tried to set up a Deaf Democrats organization. But the website is no longer there and so-called "organization" is none to be found. Although the Deaf Republicans grassroots organization is still up and running ever since 2004 and the organization will soon come to life once a Republican presidential nominee is selected.
Granted. This polling attempt of mine isn't a scientific one and there is no way of knowing the people who voted were actually deaf or hard of hearing. Although in Deafread it showed that there were 188 hits from people using Deafread to access this poll vote of mine. But keep in mind my blog caters to both deaf and hearing almost on an equal basis depending on the blog topic being discussed.
Now, yesterday I mulled over my own question whether Deafread will take the lead or not to allow participating deaf/hh bloggers who are on the Deafread aggregator list have their blogs get listed in Deafread that have topics about the upcoming 2008 election and presidential candidates and nothing deaf-related other than the person him/herself doing the blogging. And should Deafread allow this when politics is already a rare topic of discussion? Somebody (deaf person?) pleaded to the people of Daily Kos to allow the discussion about the Deaf Democrats website advert be recommended.
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So DEAF can develop their political communication skills
"So Deaf can develop their political communication skills"?
Have I been correct with my internal assessment all along ever since the days of Gallaudet University from 1989 to 1991 that this is an area among Deaf people that is poorly attended to and that politics is really at the very bottom of their social concerns? Never mind the fact that voting is an honor and duty among us to perform every 4 years to select our American president. Is it our duty as deaf or hard of hearing bloggers to help inform others who are deaf or hard of hearing about the upcoming 2008 election and the presidential candidates? Should a topic as important as this one so close to election time be shoved out of sight and mind because it didn't have anything deaf-related? Which is important? Help inform those who do not understand fully on American politics in preparation for the upcoming 2008 election or keep it out of reach?
Below is a poll question and we'll see whether my assessment is correct or not. Keep mindful of the fact that this isn't a scientific poll and I'm hoping that people will be honest to do this poll and not from hearing readers.
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