DU a poll: Does "flip-flopping" matter to you?

[Omaha Steve]

Center left hand side: http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/

Does "flip-flopping" matter to you? Would you vote for a candidate who has changed his or her mind on an important issue

Yes
No
Depends

[Iris]

1. If it mattered to me, I'd vote for conservatives because they hate change.

[Clark2008]

2. It matters if it's a pattern based on political expedience.

If someone changes their position on an item or two because they were "shone the light," so to speak, then, no, I don't have that much of a problem with it.

But, when someone starts apologizing for basically their whole voting record, then I see it as a weakness carved from political expedience.

We have one of those running in our camp, btw. Don't like him because of it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Would you vote for a candidate who has changed his or her mind on an important issue?

Only if he changed his mind from the wrong position to MY position.

[Deja Q]

4. Depends on the impetus causing the flip-flop.

And that's going to have to be a good impetus indeed.

People ARE capable of growth and change. But it takes more than words.

[BootinUp]

5. Of course it depends!

it depends on the justification, which ideally would focus on a factual analysis of new information, at least new to the candidate. It should not have to do with trying to win a fucking primary.

[bigwillq]

6. It depends

On what the candidate flipped on.

Does "flip-flopping" matter to you? Would you vote for a candidate who has changed his or her mind on an important issue?

Results:

Yes
30%
No
15%
Depends
55%

[jillan]

7. All I want is to make the repukes so sorry they ever

called John Kerry a flip-flopper.

They are going to choke on those words.
(sorry - still angry from 2004 :P )

[gulliver]

8. It's a pablum issue for the dimwitted.

You could just see the con man's smile on Bush every time he talked about Kerry flip-flopping. He knew it was being eaten up by the stupid marks. Flip-flopping is a cynical, name-calling, non-issue designed to make one-track-minded numbskulls like Bush look decisive and wise leaders look unsure.