* -> Badnarik -> Kerry

[the_outsider]

A couple of my co-workers who are registered republicans followed this route. Iraq, economy, deficit and debate performances finally worked and they decided they could not re-elect *. They pondered over Badnarik for a while before finally voting for Kerry. They reasoned why waste the votes on a 3rd party candidate. Kerry isn't that bad.. at least they have not heard of anything really bad other than flip-flops which being reasonably intelligent they can deal with. I am in software industry in CA and know quite a few programmers/scientists who consider themselves more libertarian than liberal but will go for Kerry over * any day. Here's hoping that a lot of republicans/moderates/independents all over America followed similar reasoning. I would take any margin, but would really enjoy a 5%,310-320 victory.

[snowbear]

1. Rock on to your (R) co-workers who voted for Kerry!

They'll feel great later when they see that the man they selected won the election...

And when he wows them as a President so much that they change their party affiliation!

;) :bounce: ;)

[mountebank]

2. Kudos to the Kerry campaign for positioning him well....

They did what they needed to do. Put him in a position that fellows like your co-workers could look at him and see someone Presidential whom they could cast their vote for as an alternative to Bush. That's all they needed to do - and they did it.

Now we wait.....

Thanks for the post.