Slate magazine votes: it's Kerry by a landslide!

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http://slate.msn.com/id/2108714/

Slate Votes
At this magazine, it's Kerry by a landslide!

Posted Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, at 3:32 PM PT

We asked our staff and contributors: Who are you supporting for president and why? These are their responses. Click here to see who Slate voted for in the 2000 election. Click here to read Editor Jacob Weisberg's explanation of why we're sharing this information with our readers.

Kevin Arnovitz, Fray Editor: Kerry

I'll pull the lever for Kerry, if for nothing else than to defeat the misconception that being contemplative is somehow paralyzing. What's strange is that I'm your classically disaffected Democrat who's been drifting independent in recent years. There's important work to be done—the kind of work that's traditionally been best handled by Democrats, like education and Social Security reform—that's being put off because the party has become lazy. And certain Democrats won't satisfy themselves until they alienate everyone beyond the Free Weeklyites—people who like guns, people who like fries, people who like money. Though I've never been an identity politics kind of guy, my visceral response to the Federal Marriage Amendment this past year truly radicalized me. Watching the president of the United States, the one person in our country whose endorsement can legitimate any initiative, use gay people as a political chew-toy to advance some kind of theological agenda has been the most infuriating and surreal political experience of my citizen life. The president's willingness to turn on a group of Americans demonstrates to me an unthinking disrespect for two of his favorite virtues—freedom and liberty.

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[Hog lover]

1. I heard this on NPR this morning

Intelligent people vote for Kerry.

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2. My brother who is a Repub is voting for Kerry

he asked me if I was surprised and I said, 'not really, I always knew you were an intelligent person.'