Question: How Many Friends/Family Do You Know Who've...

[johnkerryyip145]

...switched sides since last time, i.e. from Bush to Kerry or from Nader to Kerry, or from Gore to Bush? (Or even from Nader to Bush.) I know we're all Lefties here, so our acquaintances are probably a bit skewed Left, but we all have friends and family who are on the Right.

For me (and i'm in Ohio) here's how it goes:

Of the people i know who voted for Gore last time:
All are voting Kerry (+0)

Of the people i know who voted for Nader last time:
All are voting Kerry (+3)

Of the people i know who voted for Bush last time:
6 people are voting for Kerry (+6)
3 people will not vote (+3)
3 moved out of state (one to IN, one to GA, one to NY) (+3)
All the rest are voting for Bush (+0)

Of the people i know who didn't vote last time:
4 for Kerry, 2 for Bush (+2)

Now my perspective might be a little skewed, b/c 4 of those Bush-to-Kerry votes come from my friend and his family, who have switched sides since then b/c my friend's now a paraplegic.

Still, i don't know anyone who has switched to Bush. Maybe i'm fooling myself, but Bush's numbers seem to be mostly shored up by non-voters from last time and not switchers. But the 2000 non-voter vote is dominated by Kerry, according to all the polls.

It seems to me that, if we all did such an analysis, and we all got even a +1 net for Kerry, then Kerry should be running away with this thing.

Where are Bush's numbers coming from?
Can the polls be this wrong?
Is there really a sizeable # of Gore-to-Bush votes?
When thinking about your friends and family, what kind of numbers do you get?

[Hamlette]

1. for me it's

4 who voted for Bush in 2000 are voting Kerry
2 who didn't vote (but could have) in 2000 are voting Kerry
1 who didn't vote in 2000 because he was too young (my son) Kerry

I don't know a soul who voted for Gore and will now vote Bush.

[snowbear]

2. Well..

Any Rethugs that I know.. I refuse to discuss politics with because it's already caused a major rift between my dad and I. (He's down in Texas) I got extremely mad at him because he was constantly forwarding NewsMax articles, photos that were tampered with from some nutwing site, and other pathetic articles his friends were forwarding to one another.

I finally had to dump his e-mail address into the "spam" and bounced them back to him... which I guess pissed him off. :eyes: I didn't hear from him for about a year. A YEAR! No calls, no letters, no Christmas cards.. nothing. He's finally just now starting to e-mail again.. but never anything political. I haven't lived w/him since I was 5, so we've never been all that close. But a year.. sheesh. :o

Anyway.. here in Alaska, there are a LOT of Naderites. A few of them still support him from the letters I see in the paper. (Especially since he came up here for a week a month or so ago)

But the ones I know personally are still suffering a major guilt trip from voting for him last time. Hopefully most Naderites feel like them!

[WCGreen]

3. I make it a point not to talk to my brother in the

run up time before the presidential elections....

It's just a futile exercise....

He really is the only person I know who still insists that the GOP has all the answers.......

My Mother in law voted for Bush this time... +1

Two of my wifes relatives switched +2

I don't know. I've just hung around dem's for so long...

My aunt, who passed away, voted for Nadar last time.....