Nader Voter Last time - Kerry Voter this time??? Or What???

[seventhson]

Tell us about it.


who and why?

[windlight]

1. I should qualify it

by saying that i voted in Wyoming last time and a Nader vote was a protest against the Wyo Sec. of State. Now In PA and I'm all for Kerry.

[Insomnicole]

2. I answered on behalf of my husband.

Nader in 2000/Kerry today. He realized in the last four years that Nader's an attention whore, and that even though Kerry may not be his ideal candidate, he's still better than four more years of the Shrub.

But at least he voted in 2000. I didn't. I atoned for that today.

[seventhson]

3. Cool. Congratulations!

and Welcome to DU . Love the handle

[Window]

4. Gore 2000, Kerry 2004

and I hope to see *ush kicked out the door.

[illumn8d]

5. Voted Nader in 2000, Kerry in 2004

California was a safe protest vote state in 2000, and probably still is now, but good to have a show of force. I still want a viable multi-party system, but sometimes you have to make compromises.

[drumwolf]

26. same with me

Just like you, I voted for Nader in 2000 because I was in California and it was a safe protest vote.

This year, I voted for Kerry essentially as a protest vote against Bush. California is such a safe Kerry state that I could have voted third-party again without swinging the election outcome.

[plurality]

6. Voted Nader in 2k, Badnarik in 2k4

Why, he's who I think is best, and if Kerry can't win my state, then hell must have frozen over.

[Mizmoon]

20. It's good and right that you should vote your heart

I'm sorry we weren't able to convince you to vote Kerry, but so glad you voted at all.

[veganwitch]

21. too bad he got banned for his trouble.

[klook]

7. Where's the "Other" option?

I didn't vote in 2000 (I know, I know) and voted for Kerry this time.

[SavageWombat]

8. Nader/Kerry

I voted for Nader because I wanted his party to get the 5% they needed - we need more parties in this country. Since I live in Kansas, I wasn't taking away from Gore, who I really favored.

This year - Kerry needs every popular vote he can get, wherever you live - and Nader's been acting a bit flaky.

[AngryHoosier]

9. Nader in 2000, not this time. Only Kerry can save us. n/t

[minkyboodle]

10. ditto

voted Nader in 2000 in a red state in which Nader's margin didn't cost gore. However this year its all about voting Dem and giving Kerry the strongest case possible against the Rethugs who are going to contest unless its a landslide.

[ExclamationPoint]

28. i would if i could

it is part of my beleifs and my faith (veganwitch probably too) to want the environment and the people in its party to be considered in the white house, and i probably would've voted for him had i been old enough in that election. But this year its kerry kerry kerry democrat democrat democrat all the way.

[Chovexani]

11. Gore 2000/Kerry 2004

Nader didn't fool me then and he didn't fool me now.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

22. Amen to that n/t

[prayin4rain]

12. Nader/Kerry

[dean_dem]

13. Solid Nader supporter in 2000, solid Kerry in 2004

I just couldn't warm up to Gore, last time.
But look at it this way, if (wait, I mean when) Kerry wins this time around we can get him again in 2008. I would be worried that Gore wouldn't have been able to hold on in a 2004 re-election.

[Damn Hippie]

14. Hell, I campaigned for Nader.

1. I really thought Gore would win. (Oh, right, he did.)

2. I could not have imagined how radically RW Bush turned out to be. His first "really" big lie having been that "compasionate conservative" bullshit.

Naturally, I have accepted the present reality and leapt out of bed this morning to get to the poll 30 minutes early. About 40 people beat me there, including the Dem who stopped by the house Sunday to GOTV. Not only voted for Kerry/Edwards but every Dem on the ballot.

Haven't voted for a Dem since '92.

[RandomKoolzip]

15. Nader 2000, Kerry 2004. Sorry, everybody!

If I had seen it (the * shitstorm) coming, I wouldna voted for the Ralphster.

[opstachuck]

16. i was in texas at the time and i forced myself to vote nader...

only because i felt like he was a voice that we needed to hear and gore didn't have a chance in texas. i'm in new york now and although my vote is equally insignificant this time i enthusiastically voted for kerry

[Enraged_Ape]

17. Yeah, I voted Nader in 2000, Kerry 2004

Like someone once said, "Fool me once, shame on...shame on...you. Fool me twice...shame on...fool me, can't get fooled again."

[tsuki]

18. Nader - 2000 Kerry - 2004

I have not voted a major party for President since Carter. Living in Florida, I now know better.

[Selteri]

19. Didn't vote Bush in 2k, but would have if I hadn't voted

for a different 3rd party (Not Nader).

[asthmaticeog]

23. It's a very different Nader this year, isn't it?

His '00 claims to be attempting to eastablish a third party seemed credible then, but running as an independent this time blows that reason to vote for him out of consideration. Plus the fact that in the four years since the '00 election he's done exactly shit for the Greens shows that he was probably just using that party - a party I still enthusiastically believe in, even though I vote Dem (not a lot of Greens running for local and regional office where I live).

Plus I think that if he wins, Kerry ought to give Dennis Kucinich a big sloppy wet kiss on the mouth for giving a lot of former Nader voters a reason to support the Dems this year.

[seventhson]

24. WOW! Amazing results! ONE Bush voter One Nader Voter

and a majority of people who voted Nader in 2000 voting in this poll for Kerry.

Wow

[Robbie67]

25. Forty-six Nader 2000 voters?

Aren't you all supposed to be ashamed?

[offcenter]

27. Nader 2000 Kerry 2004

NJ was safe for Gore, both parties were corporate whores.
Now there is a clear difference.