Great E. J. Dionne article referring to WA DEMs

[RobertSeattle]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13500-2004Jun28.html

First Ripple of a Political Tidal Wave?

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004; Page A23

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I've never seen a time with so many Republicans expressing consternation about their party and a willingness to support the other party," said Rep. Brian Baird, a Democrat whose district, in Washington's southwest corner, went for Bush four years ago.

Baird, a psychologist who has worked with statistics, is also skeptical of making too much of anecdotes. But he is running across plenty of them on the anti-Bush side. "If you contrast this campaign to the campaign of four years ago, you saw George Bush stickers everywhere and very few Al Gore stickers," he said. "Now, it's at least 50-50" between Bush and Kerry. Baird speaks of a man in a health club wearing a John Kerry T-shirt who told him: "What you have to understand is that I am a lifelong Republican." And the congressman chuckles over a car he spotted that "had an American flag, an 'I'm the NRA' bumper sticker and a John Kerry bumper sticker."

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[flamingyouth]

1. Cool. Thanks for the link!

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