Don't it make a red state blue (AZ GOP Women for Kerry)

[onehandle]

Don't it make a red state blue

In Arizona, influential Republican women are increasingly coming out for John Kerry.

Oct. 2, 2004  |  PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Judith Allen, longtime Arizonan and lifelong Republican, says her choice is clear. She is voting for John Kerry on Nov. 2 and says there are plenty more where she came from.

Allen is not a lone voice, crying in the wilderness. She currently serves as a volunteer coordinator for the group Republicans for Kerry, which believes in "putting aside partisan politics to do what is right for America." In spite of recent polls to the contrary, Allen says her fellow Republicans, turned off by the Bush administration's sharp turn to the right, are defecting in droves to the other side. If what these Arizonans want is any indication, Bush may well be in trouble. Since Arizona earned statehood in 1912, no Republican has been elected president without carrying the state.

Allen is also part of a brewing revolution of Republican women called the WISH List (Women in the Senate and House), a Washington-based organization committed to electing moderate, pro-choice Republican women to public office. WISH raises about $1 million a year to elect candidates and boasts a 75 percent success rate for the 1,400-plus candidates it has supported since 1992.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/02/arizona/index.html

[neverforget]

1. Didn't they get the memo? Only Bush can protect them because

he's so good with security.....:eyes:

[othermeans]

2. Thanks for the post that is so encouraging! nt

[Cha]

3. This is going on in New Hampshire, too!

Is this an epidemic?!

It's really encouraging that there are signs of intelligent life in the Universe!:o

[Coventina]

4. Not only that, but we now have Air America!!!!

I can't believe it!
I can now drive around in my car and pretend I life in a progressive area!
I'm so happy!
Arizona is finally growing up!

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Reagan Democrats, Kerry Republicans

Folks we are seeing a sea change

Now I should qualify my giddiness, but I suspect this is not the 1980s all over again (No John ain't Reagan, but see note about Kerry Republicans), but this is 1932 all over again....

Hey how fitting, we even have a President who has negative Job Growth, like... Hoover