It's Like Sophie's Choice... If She Hated All Her Children
Pajamas Media is going to have a running straw poll up until the presidential primaries. Eventually, they'll have more features and we should be able to keep track of just how IMAO readers are voting (it would be the IMAO precinct), but right now you can just go to the PJM site and vote at the top of the page. Not only do you get to choose the Republican candidate, but you can pick the Democrat one as well.
Now, I'm not of the school of strategically titling the Democrat primary to a candidate easier to beat, because the Democrats could nominate a horrible candidate and then, through some huge mishap on the Republican side, he or she could actually gets elected. That's why I was glad when Reno lost in the Florida gubernatorial primary in 2002 when it seemed like the only reason she was running was to piss off the Cubans.
Anyway, pick from the Democrats who you'd actually want to be president if you'd have to choose from that group and then come back here and say who and why (and tell us your Republican pick as well). I'd say who I'd vote for, but I have a financial interest.
Incidentally, I think all the Republican and Democratic candidates listed are great! They could really help their campaigns to advertise on IMAO, though.