Tactic for possibly converting some of my RW-leaning relatives

[zbdent]

Cousins, etc, live on the PA side of the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. Part of the "Arkansas" portion of PA. Tendency to lean Right because they hunt.

Well, last year, I lost one of my cousins to diabetes. Several other members of the same immediate family have diabetes.

I am not going to instigate things, but if it comes up (if we do our annual Thanksgiving family reunion), I will throw this in their face:

"If stem-cell research would have saved XXX, would you still vote for someone who wants to ban it?"

God, I hate to think of where this world would be if Louis Pasteur and the discoverers of penicillin and Jonas Salk had been working for the pharmaceutical industry and its "bottom-line" attitude. Probably would have found that a failed polio vaccine might have increased breast size and went that way.

[murielm99]

1. Thanksgiving may be too late.

Get to them before election day.

[TomClash]

2. No matter what the polls say . . .

. . . every vote counts

[zbdent]

3. pounding self on head

Yeah, you're right, but I don't communicate with them much as it is.

Don't want to initiate the "battle".

And yes, Thanksgiving would be too late (for this round).

[BootinUp]

4. Try it

but sometimes I wonder if the best way to convert someone might be finding out their strongest reason for being against dems and softening them up there too. good luck.