2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumYARD SIGNS!!!
Not sure if you remember my post a while back regarding my life-long never-voted-for-Democrats father-in-law changing his mind and will vote for Hillary this year. Honestly, even though he shared with me his voting decision, I still have my doubt. I myself would never switch side, thus my doubt about his change.
I went to his house yesterday to drop off some medications for him, well, two big yard signs confidently displayed on his front lawn. One is Clinton Kaine; the other Tammy Duckworth!!!
Halleluia! Blue Wave is definitely coming to shore, furiously and fast!
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)This is giving me hope that I didn't overplay myself in the how many percentage points will Hillary win poll. I voted for 10% hoping that Americans like your father in law will reject this Trashbag in the end.
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)Lindalouuu
(91 posts)Cohabitate with, would switch. I don't think there is hope though. Sad
Mad_Dem_X
(9,547 posts)skylucy
(3,737 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)we could weaponize it and begin covert aerial spraying ops over red states.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)When you show a typical Republican how the GOP votes it's hard to stick to the talking points.
My boss started to finally see some light when I told him the GOP voted to end the interest cap that could be charged on military families.
NBachers
(17,081 posts)I'm sure you had some, slight, influence on him, don't you think?
Light63
(233 posts)Trump did it to himself by his violent, crude, condescending, narcissistic, and misogynistic rhetoric. I guess the last straw for my father-in-law was the incidence on the Access Hollywood bus.
As most of the time, the truth shall shine!
Perseus
(4,341 posts)I hope you don't mean that because if a "Trump" ever becomes a nominee for the Democratic party it would be your duty as a citizen of this country and not of a party, to switch your vote.
That is exactly the problem we live today, people treat politics and parties like a football game, it is my team against your team and I don't care who plays on my team I will still cheer and support it. In politics it doesn't work that way, and that is why we get "Sample Ballots" to take the time and study each candidate so that we can make the right choices, not for our party but for our country.
You father-in-law has done what a good citizen and a patriot is supposed to do, which is to guard our country for a crazy man, and if in the future you are faced with a similar decision, you should do what he has done.
Sorry, did not mean to lecture (maybe I did), but this is something I discuss with people a lot, even those who support my choices but have not clue why they do. We have to know, there are judges registered republican who are better than those registered democrat, you have to look at their record and make the right decision.
red dog 1
(27,777 posts)bluevoter4life
(787 posts)Dyed -in-the-wool Republican father-in-law also cast his vote for Hillary. The tide is definitely shifting, and it couldn't come at a better time.