Goodbye Kucinich

In the News: Dennis Kucinich, after being slaughtered at all of the primaries thus far, made the decision to drop out of the presidential race in order to focus on his re-election into congress. His seat is being threatened by four candidates, Joe Cimperman (his chief rival), Rosemary Palmer, Thomas O’Grady (who may withdraw now that Kucinich is focusing his attention on the House instead of the presidency), and Barbara Ferris. Ironically, most of his competitors campaigned for Kucinich in 2006. While speaking at a Union Hall in Cleveland, Kucinich said that he would work to keep his campaign promises of the presidential race the same as his promises for the congressional race. Kucinich’s supporters from the Bay Area in California are probably the most devastated by Kucinich’s decision to withdraw from the presidential race, and they are stuck on whom to go to next. The real question now is who Kucinich will endorse for president. In the Iowa caucus, after failing to get enough people to move on, Kucinich told his supporters to caucus for Obama. Will his decision be the same now that he is out of the presidential race?