Poll: Dean supporters, what is your party affiliation/political history?

[KaraokeKarlton]

I wanted to post this poll to find out what Dean's "base" of voters looks like on DU. I've seen a very broad base of supporters for Dean and I don't think supporters of the other campaigns realize just how broad Dean's appeal is. So, here goes:

[artr2]

1. Loyal democrat

All the way!!!

[KaraokeKarlton]

2. I'm an Independent that swings both left and right

It depends on the candidate. I'm a Vermonter and that's how we vote. The party affiliation doesn't matter, it's all about the individual candidate.

[last1standing]

3. Voted Loyal Democrat.

But could have gone with Disgusted as well.

[KaraokeKarlton]

5. lol...I think most of us could choose that one

:D

[mzmolly]

4. Loyal Dem

voted Dem in every election since I was 19. Worked for Jesse Jackson/Wellstone/Mondale.

Tempted to vote for Nader due to corporate control of our Govt. but voted Gore in the end *and glad I did*

I also convinced 3 family members Inde/Green/Demish folk to vote for Gore instead of Nader due to the close election in our State.

[Hoppin_Mad]

6. Proudly voted for McGovern, and every Dem since (supported Bradley 00) nt-

[Sean Reynolds]

7. I am a member of the CPUSA - so I can't vote in the poll.

[KaraokeKarlton]

8. What is the CPUSA?

I put other as an option in case I missed something.

[Melinda]

11. "Communist Party", KK

[KaraokeKarlton]

14. lol, thanks

There were just too many possibilities that the initials could stand for, and I didn't want to assume. :D

[Melinda]

21. Ummm, ya mean like.....

Cutie Patootie? :evilgrin: :hi:

[Jim Sagle]

10. Off the board, ya lousy red!

;-)

[Sean Reynolds]

17. Eat me!

;-)

[Walt Starr]

12. Do you hold meetings in your RV?

:evilgrin:

I don't know how many people will get the reference, though...

[Sean Reynolds]

15. I get it! Crow - her Soak up the Sun song

[Walt Starr]

24. Well I figured YOU'D get the reference

even though Crow is closer to my age than yours.

LOL

[IndianaGreen]

19. CPUSA endorses ABB - ""All Out to Defeat Bush"

Our thanks go out to Scotty Marshall for that excellent report yesterday. It created a great discussion, which dealt a lot with the 2004 election especially labors vital role. So in effect we have been discussing the subject of this report for one day already.

The slogan in his report, "All Out to Defeat Bush" must become a living-fighting slogan for us. What we need is a class struggle approach to the '04 elections to help guarantee that the enormous power of the multiracial US working class, especially its organized sector, the racially oppressed along with other allies is felt in the street and at the ballot box next November 2nd.

<snip>

A Strategic Struggle

The road to freedom in Nelson Mandela's words is no easy walk. This is a tough struggle. Bush and the Republicans have record amounts of money and the media. They fight hard and dirty because they really don't have the people. But the main reason they can be defeated is because they don't have the people.

The main obstacle we face today on our road to freedom is the right wing Republican president and the right wing Republican majorities in the Congress and the Supreme Court. Removing this obstacle is not easy. We have been fighting this fight since before the Reagan years. But we should not lose hope. It's a big historic task that the entire democratic and progressive forces face. It is not a struggle for Socialism per se. But to break the right wing strangle hold on our nation is a strategic struggle that must be won on the road to new freedom and socialism.

http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/577/1/56/

Of course, unlike the 2-major parties, CPUSA does not try to enforce "party discipline," another of those myths about Reds we were taught in school.

[Sean Reynolds]

28. I'm not quite ABB right now.

But I do like that they're doing everything in their power to kick Bush out.

[IndianaGreen]

30. The Left is divided on the ABB issue

Although the Left is divided on the ABB issue (as we mentioned earlier CPUSA is strongly in favor of ABB), there are many leftist that argue that socialists have no obligation to save capitalism--which is exactly what electing a Democrat (other than Kucinich) will accomplish. They are convinced, and I agree with this analysis, that America is on the last stage of capitalism before its inevitable collapse. Since the collapse of capitalism, particularly the virulent American variant, would be good for the world and for America, why should anyone lift a finger to save something that should be allowed to die of natural causes.

The reason I mention Kucinich, who is still a bourgeois candidate despite his progressive leanings, is that Dennis is willing to change the paradigm of America using her military might to subjugate and exploit other people. Dennis is willing to embark on a journey that inevitably will lead to socialism. A socialist America will be characterized by a just and caring society and responsible world citizenship.

[Walt Starr]

9. Loyal Democrat for Dean, I always vote.

There has never been an election since I first was of age to vote that I did not vote a straight Democratic ticket in.

This primary season has been altering my feelings towards the Democratic PArty, though.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Ex-Green for Dean!

Have always been liberal, defected the party in the ninties because of the perceived "milquetoastness" of most DEms, and have made a switch back to Democratic Party politics...and will vote Dem, no matter who the candidate is, in 2004.

[workin_granny]

16. Party affiliation/history

My first input at DU, tho I've done a bit of lurking in the past. I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to declare for Dean--anytime, any way I can. An Independent who is mostly Democrat, my voting history has been lackluster all my life, as in "who cares, it doesn't make a difference." Now a confirmed Bush-hater, the only good thing I can say about him is that he taught me it DOES make a difference. O8)

[salin]

31. welcome to DU, workin_granny

:hi:

Glad to hear you have become motivated to vote and act... sorry about the reason to pur it on (in someways bush really has become both a uniter and a divider.)

[newyawker99]

35. Hi workin_granny!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dodgerartful]

18. I voted other as I am a

def way left of this board.

[AntiCoup2K4]

20. Loyal Democrat who came damn close to quitting after the 2002 fiasco

I'm still pissed off about the mid term elections.. Bottom line, the Democrats had nothing to run on, as the so called leadership had kissed Bush's ass and continued to do so. The congressional Dems in the current Presidential race, with the exception of Kucinich, are part of that problem. Howard Dean got my attention when he acknowledged the fact that the alleged "leadership" of the Democratic party was as much to blame as the Bush Criminal Empire was. We could have taken the 2002 election easily and possibly have avoided the invasion of Iraq in the process, but instead, offered nothing to counter the Bush agenda. And if not for Dean, the current Presidential campaign would probably have been more of the same.

[patricia92243]

22. I'm registered as a democrat,but always voted for which

person I thought was best. I didn't really know anything about politics until the debacle with Clinton. It scared me that a party (republicans) has so much power that they could put the POUS sex life on tv. From that day forward I have been strictly a Democrat, and i always vote.

[Cooley Hurd]

23. Loyal Democrat, true to the "blue."

I see something "Rooseveltian" in Dean. And, given the radical changes that have taken place in this country since the Usurper usurped in 2000, it'll take a radical leader to save us - like Howard Dean!

[quaker bill]

25. Straight ticket democrat since '72.

Even if the race is 'non-partisan' I do the research to find out who is the repug.

[Demobrat]

26. Lifelong Dem who just voted Green for the first time

and is thinking of switching to Independent. Of course, should Dean win and take over the Dem party, I'm sure that won't be necessary.

[Toot]

27. Dem and always votes

I liked Nadar more in 2000, but voted for Gore because I knew Nadar wouldn't win and Gore would need my vote(even though it didn't matter in the end).

This time, I'm completely behind Dean and can't wait to vote for him in November.;) I got BEYOND tired of the Democrats in Washington seeming to let Bush and the other Rupugs walk all over them. Dean is a fighter and I like that.

[newyawker99]

36. Hi Toot!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Scott Lee]

29. Family Democrat - longtime Red, now supporting some Dems

[NoPasaran]

32. Former Trotskyist for Dean!

That's right, not everyone from the Fourth International joined PNAC.

1972: Not old enough to vote but George McGovern ignited a passion for politics. Went through the the thrill of victory in the primaries and the agony of defeat in November.

1976: Voted for Sargent Shriver in the primary and Eugene McCarthy (Independent) in November.

By then I had gone away to college and was drawn into the Socialist Workers Party. I didn't vote in the 1980 primary because I was supporting Andrew Pulley, our presidential candidate. I did vote for Carter in November though since Reagan seemed like such a threat.

After 1980 I was just plain disgusted with a country that could elect someone like Reagan. Jesse Jackson was interesting to me but other than that the Democrats seemed powerless against Reagan. I was part of the radical left as it became more and more irrelevant to real world politics. In 1992 Bill Clinton did catch my attention. It seemed like it was time to pass the torch from my parents' generation which had lived through the Depression and the War to us Boomers. So for the first time in my life I voted for someone who actually won! I repeated in 1996. In 2000 I can't say that I was enthusiastic about Gore's campaign but that's how I voted.

It did take me a while to settle on Dean. I think we have some fine candidates this year, any of whom I could support with enthusiasm. And for the rest I would vote for them even if though I wouldn't be particularly happy; given the stakes I would write some checks. But to me it seems that the Dean campaign is not just about a candidate but about drawing more ordinary folks into the political process. And to me that is what we need to do to turn this country around and make us what people in other lands admire and aspire to be like, rather than something to fear.

To (probably mis-)quote old Karl M, "The philosophers have described the world in various ways; the point however is to change it."

[mandyky]

33. Other - Registered Dem but very Independent

Voted Nader in 2000, Clinton twice. I liked Bill Bradley adn John McCain but both were out by our primary here in KY.

[ozone_man]

34. Registered Democrat, left leaning.

I often vote Progressive, only Republican once, Jim Jeffords VT, then he switched to Independent. I would say I am more of a Kucinich type Democrat, but Dean is the electable Democrat with most of the attributes that are important to me.