A friend of mine that voted for Bush in '00 said he's never again voting R

[fujiyama]

A bunch of us were sitting around and somehow the election came up and he asked us "did any of you vote for Bush in '00?"

Then he said that he did and he regretted it ever since. He said he had no clue why the hell he did that (it was his first time voting). Best of all, he said he would never vote republican ever again - only democrat or liberal and said that he wishes he could vote for Clinton.

My jaw sorta dropped. He had said that he regretted his vote, but what surprised me was his statement about not voting republican ever again.

I guarantee you all, barring some unforseen event or bizarre circumstances that Michigan will go blue this year (ha MI - go blue!).

[Hello_Kitty]

1. A guy I work with

Who's a Navy veteran and a lifelong Republican, says he's voting for Kerry this time. He also says he thinks the Republican party has gone way too far to the right and that the Democrats are more in tune with mainstream issues. I think we're winning 'em over! :bounce:

[TaleWgnDg]

2. we all sure as hell hope so !! n/t

[LittleClarkie]

9. I'm still trying to figure out how

Kerry could be considered far left, as in a letter to the editor in Thursday's USA Today. He strikes me as a moderate with some liberal leanings, and some conservative leanings. His social stances are more liberal, for instance. But his foreign policy is more hawkish (knowing as much as he does about international terror probably has something to do with that) And he is more of a fiscal hawk than anything with his "pay as you go" attitiude.

I keep thinking "Kennedy Democrat" in the old sense, as in the original JFK, which would make him moderate to conservative in some ways. His stance on national service sure does remind me of the Peace Corp, for instance. But then the original JFK is one of the reasons our JK wanted to go into politics in the first place.

However, I'm not really a student of JFK. Am I way off base in making the comparison and a case against Kerry being the lefty that the Right portrays? Not that there's anything wrong with being a lefty, but why misrepresent, ya know? Or is it just that everything looks left when observed from that far to the right?

[the Kelly Gang]

3. I bet there are many like him who secretly will do the same

[Melodybe]

4. I knew quit a few former republicans, I wish people

would pay more attention to stories like this, instead of freaking out about the polls.

We are not doomed, we are the majority, shrub has maybe 30%, lets just hope that is not enough to steal it.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. Let's hope many more make the same decision!

For thirty years of my voting life, I didn't believe in voting a straight ticket, always believed you should judge each candidate on his/her merits. Then the scum in the GOP spent eight years trying to find a way to hang Clinton, and I realized how low that party had sunk. I swore in 1998 that I'd always vote a straight Democratic ticket from then on, and I don't see any reason to change my mind about that.

[Melodybe]

6. Also ask yourself do you know anyone that voted for Gore that is now

voting for Kerry.

Every crap decision this administration has made, has only re-enforced to those voters that they made the right decision.

Close race, my ass.

[radfringe]

8. I know more 2000-bush* voters

who will NOT be voting for bush* this time around -- and I don't know anyone who voted for Gore in 2000 that will be voting for bush* in 2004

[samwisefoxburr]

7. While not a story of a repub voting dem...

but don't forget about all of the young people who weren't old enough to vote last election. Myself and two of my friends (although there are probably more, but I know these two are going to vote) are 20 years old, so that's three votes that Gore didn't have last time. Also, my older brother and my mother are going to vote as well. Both of them have never voted in a presidential election. I am very confident we are going to win in November.

Although, as you can guess by my avatar I live in Indiana, but I will not let that phase me. Even if Indiana goes red again, I bet it will be by a very close margin, and that by itself will scare the repubs.