LosinIt
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:42 PM
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Has anyone heard of a voter switching TO Bush? |
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Edited on Sun Jan-25-04 07:46 PM by LosinIt
I was listening to callers on C-Span today, some of whom say they had voted for Bush, but are switching to the Democratic Party. You hear these kind of stories all of the time.
This caused the proverbial light bulb to come on over my head. Has anyone heard of an instance of someone who voted for Gore switching to the Republican Party? Since Gore got more votes than Bush in the first place, this sounds like pretty good news to me.
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:45 PM
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And if they hauled one out now, I'd call him a liar unless he had voted for Pat Bucannan.
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:49 PM
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and I wouldn't call them liars. I'd call them idiots.
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:46 PM
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2. No, that's a good question. Not a one. |
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I've spoken to lots who voted for him before but won't again. Not the opposite, however.
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:46 PM
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3. Just a couple of celebrities and has beens |
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Dennis Miller
Ron Silver
Ed Koch
Christopher "glug, glug" Hitchens
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:53 PM
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9. Miller probably did it to save his sagging career |
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I read that Clint Eastwood was Republican, and switched to Independent. Last time I heard, he was defending the Dixie Chicks. I bet they've lost more than they've gained, celebrity-wise.
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Sun Jan-25-04 08:09 PM
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12. Dennis Miller And His Husband Zell. Don't Forget the Millers. |
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:47 PM
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6. No and my husband who watches the C-Span call in programs |
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reports a lot of Repubicans calling in saying that they will not vote for Bush next time. They are upset about him.
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Sun Jan-25-04 07:49 PM
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Many members in my Jewish Temple voted for Arnold and will vote for Bush because of his pro-Israel stance.
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Sun Jan-25-04 08:04 PM
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10. And the True Conservatives are really unhappy with him |
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But I doubt that many of them would ever vote Democratic.
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Sun Jan-25-04 08:06 PM
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She lives in the south. She voted for Gore last time, but fully supports Bush and says she will vote for him this time because "he is a good 'ol boy". She has completely turned freeper in three years.
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Sun Jan-25-04 08:12 PM
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13. Perhaps you should point out that he is a Conn. prep school boy |
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the transplantation to Texas happened years later.
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Sun Jan-25-04 10:23 PM
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15. Yes, some religious fundamentalists. They voted for Gore |
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because they'd always been Democrats and this is Tennessee. But now they're so brainwashed by their preachers about how "God has chosen * to lead this nation".
Sorry, but it's true. They truly believe that * was chosen by God.
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Sun Jan-25-04 10:50 PM
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17. That assumes Miller voted for Gore last time |
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I don't know we can take that for a given. He may not have openly endorsed Bush in 2000, but he jumped on his bandwagon after the inaugural pretty quickly.
And he was voting very right-wing pre-2000, as far as I recall.
--Peter
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Mon Jan-26-04 12:04 AM
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20. He claims he voted for Gore in 2000 n/t |
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I went back to my home in the north suburbs of Illinois over the winter, and I noticed that most of my friend's parents, who were also incidentally Reagan Democrats, who voted for Gore are going to vote for Bush in the GE. It leads me to fear that perhaps Nixon's "Silent Majority" may re-emerge to give Bush another term.
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Mon Jan-26-04 01:38 AM
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22. Shameless Kick for the late night crowd. Any input? |
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The more I think about this, the bigger my smile becomes.
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