Who knows Republicans that crossed over to vote against the Shrub?

[neohippie]

I know a few, my grandfather and his new wife, both Christian conservative voters, who felt that Bush lied about Iraq, destabilized the region, drove up the national debt and that was enough for them.

They live in Charlotte, NC, home of Billy Graham, and attend church on the former grounds that used to house Jim and Tammy Fae Baker.

Now if they could cross-over don't you think there must have been a lot more of Republicans who also did?

[APizzedOffDem]

1. Both of my parents...

and my mother is a minister lol.

So much for the Christian voters for Shrubbage eh?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

28. From smack dab in the middle of the red...

My Mother (of course, she's a former hippie) and my Grandmother (Hippies still shock her):eyes:

[petepillow]

2. I know several... girlfriend, co-workers, neighbors.

Alas, I live in the Northeast, so... whoop-dee-doo right?

[intheflow]

3. Know a few.

Mostly vets. Also my crazy landlord. Haven't had the guts to call my mother and ask her, but I like to think she did.

[GetTheRightVote]

4. Crossed Over - isn't that a show on TV ??? LOL

While working the polls in Florida, I of course socialized a lot.
I met many Republicans who told me that they would never vote for him again and in fact were very sorry they voted for him at all.

[kerry2win]

5. my dad 67yrs old 1st time didn't vote rep.

[Spiffarino]

6. I live in the South

...and I know quite a few Repubs - and at least one former Dem Bush voter - who worked with us in the Kerry campaign.

[bleever]

7. I made my stepmom promise, and she did; lifelong GOPer.

I told her not to do it for me, but for her grandchildren. It worked.

[graywarrior]

8. I worked at the DEC in Sarasota

Lots of republicans came into our office telling us they were afraid of Bush and were voting Kerry. I met atleast 25.

[APizzedOffDem]

Hey, I'm from Sarasota!

I posted in this thread earlier that my mom is a minister. She lives in Sarasota with the rest of my family :( Anyhow, she told me that so many people in the congregation were voting for Kerry that she was amazed. Lifelong Dems were voting against Bush...and alot of them!

I was shocked to see that Sarasota went Republican. They usually do, but I guess I was just hoping for reality to sink in with these people this year.

[graywarrior]

25. Where are you in Sarasota?

I'm pissed Harris got re-elected.

[Nag Champa]

9. Oh yeah...

My wife (who converted thanks to Iraq), and my best friend from childhood (due to Iraq and the rampant spending).

I have talked to a few others as well but have yet to meet a Dem who switched and voted for shrub in 04.

I understand in Florida, almost all the Dems voted for shrub. At least that's what the magic mystery box said.

[GetTheRightVote]

10. Pastor is Alright

I work with a Pastor who is also a programmer. He can not believe any religious person would have voted for this man. He told me that it is between them and God, but he is glad he made the better choose - Kerry.

[wurzel]

11. I know four Reps who voted for Kerry. Don't know one Dem voted for Bush

[blm]

12. I volunteered at Dem HQ in NC. We had plenty of Republicans stop in

to buy Kerry signs. Most of them were furious about the deficit and never believed in a million years that they would have to admit that the Democrats were better with the budget. It was Bush's crony capitalism that set them off.

I still don't believe the final tally was so high for Bush here. Exit polls had it 51-49 and yet somehow Bush ended up with 56%.

[neohippie]

56. Iive in NC too!

I talked with a couple of co-workers about this issue, most of the others are wing nuts.

One of them told me that most of her neighbors had Kerry yard signs and when they got stolen, becuase that seemed to happen a lot, they would make their own signs that said "You stole the 2000 election, You stole my Kerry sign, but you can't steal my vote!" But even she admits that she thinks that they succeeded in taking that away too!

What is going on in this country?

[CindyDale]

13. Here in Pinellas County, Florida, lots did

Mostly Republican county, we voted for Gore last time, had a virtual tie this time; Bush won by a just a teensy margin.

My MoveOn PAC leader was a Republican who voted almost straight Democratic like me (neither of us voted for Bubba for sheriff).

Some Republicans here in central/south Florida are completely distraught by this administration.

Cindy

[No Mandate Here.]

14. My 81 year old straight R ticket for 60 years MOM!!!

She made the timing mistake of coming for ten day visit in October. We talked a LOT.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. I know a Republican

who switched his party affiliation to Democratic because he hated the shrub so much. He was an older, lifelong Republican and quit the party after being a member for decades.

[Mandate_My_Ass]

16. My dad's voted repube in every election since Nixon

But not in 2004!!

[newyawker99]

52. Hi Mandate_My_Ass!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JuniperLea]

17. i know three

my dad... my boss... and a fundie friend.

[LVdem]

18. I do...

a good friend, bush supporter until the very end. He told me not to tell anyone that he voted for Kerry. Bush's religious bent sent him (reluctantly, I'm sure) to Kerry.

[jsamuel]

19. Mother-In-Law in Tampa, Florida

[Omaha Steve]

20. I know of 1

Frank is a native of Omaha. He is now TV producer in LA. He is a Republican. He voted straight Republican on his ticket EXCEPT for President. His family is catholic btw. Remember I'm in one of the reddest of states. Oh joy.

[Matariki]

21. ALL my relatives

[Lugnut]

22. I do.

My nephew voted for Shithead in 2000. He voted for Kerry in 2004.

[Paradise]

23. Yup, an ex-marine family member! n/t

[idiosyncratic]

24. My Republican neighbors and their three boys. n/t

[BlueStateBlue]

26. I know of three people n/t

[CAcyclist]

27. Everyone I know who voted for Bush in 2000

voted for Kerry this year, except for one. But I live in California.

[magellan]

29. My stepmom in Martin County, FL

She's a lifelong Republican, but can't stand * because she's one of the "reality-based" community and what she sees the administration doing freaks the living daylights out of her. She says lots of her friends and neighbors supported Kerry as well, though I didn't ask how many or what their party affiliation was.

I don't know one Dem who voted for * (and I know lots of libs), yet that apparently happened in far greater numbers than Repubs voting Dem. My question is, where are these gangs of cross-party voting Dems? Methinks they only exist in some lines of code. :mad:

[AmyCrat]

30. My sister-in-law and my Aunt

[Horse with no Name]

31. I live in a small town in Texas

A very small town. The week before the elections, the owner of our local newspaper posted on half of the front page his reasons for not supporting * this year. He has voted for him in the last Presidential election as well as the two previous gubernatorial elections.
So I would count him as a crossover.
By the way, there was also the resignation of the editor in the same issue.:)

[RagingInMiami]

32. Down here in Miami

in Little Havana, which has been a Cuban republican stronghold for years, I met loads of Cub-rebubs who were voting democrat for the first time since they've been in this country, many who arrived here in the early sixties.
Bush did a great job on splitting the Cuban vote.

[Gyre]

33. I don't know any who will admit it

and it hardly matters now. But I know quite a substantial # of dems who voted straight ticket this time who strayed all over the place in the last two elections.

Gyre

[txindy]

34. I know someone

Life-long republican, too. Very disappointed in this administration. I told him all about the irregularities in the votes, too. He didn't believe it, at first, but has since come back to learn more and more. Keeps turning shades of gray and green while he digests it all. He believes it and he hates it, but also wants his former party back, not the wingnut-twisted parody it's become. We're not the only ones who want our country back, that's for sure. I find that rather promising and more than a bit comforting. :)

[mitrueblue]

35. At least three people

I live in a very conservative area of metro Detroit. I had a couple family members and one friend that I know definitely crossed over for this one. Kerry took the county too, which Gore did not carry in 2000. I was VERY surprised. My Kerry/President bumper sticker was one of few. However, since November 2 I've noticed a lot of anti-bush stickers popping up.

[snot]

36. My dad voted 4 Kerry, 1st time ever for a Dem

Dad couldn't take the abridgement of civil liberties. Bot me my first ACLU membership for X-mas last year.

[keepthemhonest]

37. 2 family members

and one co-worker

[Verve]

38. My husband crossed over! He voted for * in 2000 but began to think

he was incompetent soon after. The Iraq war put him over the top, though! I think he now hates Bush more than I do! However, to stay true to his Republican roots he voted Kerry and then a straight Republican ticket.

[nashville_brook]

39. i know at least 5

people who were huge bush supporters who were horrified at his debate performance and voted for Kerry.

[MarkusQ]

40. I did.

I've been registered Republican for over 20 years.

That doesn't mean I like been taken for a sucker, lied to, and used. Bush is no conservative. A real conservative doesn't spend with wild abandon, doesn't recklessly invade foreign nations, doesn't threaten to alter the constitution to win an election, doesn't feed his cronies from the public till, doesn't claim to "have proof" of something when in fact he has only supositions, doesn't break faith with long time allies, and doesn't mortgage the future to pay for the present.

Bush is a crook and a liar, and a bigger threat to his party than Nixon. Worse, he is a serious threat to our nation, and the world at large.

So I decided not to vote for him, even though I am a republican.

-- MarkusQ

[neohippie]

58. and a brave Republican you are, showing up here at DU

I am glad to hear that there are Republicans who are looking willing to stand up for democracy. As for the rest, when you lay down with dogs...

[sabra]

41. My brother...

Big Bush supporter in 2k, voted Kerry in 04, primarily because of Iraq....

[bunny planet]

42. My mom

in Pinellas county in Fla-la-la (Florida)voted for Kerry this time. Her's was probably one of the absentee ballots they just found stuffed in a box just yesterday. I'm not sure whether she was a registered Repuke or not because she was a Democrat for years in NY before she relocated to the Sunshine State, but she voted for His Fraudulency in 2000 and changed her mind this time (because I inundated her with reading materials to deprogram her).

[RuleofLaw]

43. My friend boss, a faithful republican

voted for Kerry due to the economy and the war.

After reading this thread I am more convinced than ever that Florida was rigged.

I have never seen so many bumper stickers or signs as this year. Yet we are to believe that Bush got received 100% of the republican vote, most of the independents and about 20% of the democrats.

Bush supposedly received 40.000 more votes in Pinellas County than in 2000.

Amazing in a county were the population has only increased by 0.5% since 2000 (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12/12103.html)

And now there is news that Bush did not win the hispanic vote!

Something is not right

[SW FL Dem]

44. I know of 5 FL voters who voted* in 00 and Kerry in 04

and my step-father in AZ voted Dem for the first time in his life (he's 81)

[blranger]

45. My boyfriend and his two sisters

All voted for Bush in 2000. I think the only reason why was because they believed they would have less taxes. I got my boyfriend to see the light and his sisters came around too (Michael Moore helped). They all live in Hawaii.
I am so glad my boyfriend's views on politics have completely turned around, otherwise we wouldn't be together.

[newyawker99]

53. Hi blranger!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[unpossibles]

46. I know at least 2

and maybe a third who is not talking about it. All in Florida.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

47. i know 2 in maine and possibly one more in PA n/t

[bmoney07]

48. 2 more for the count

My girlfriend's sister and brother-inlaw from Pinellas FL.

[newyawker99]

54. Hi bmoney07!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Rambis]

49. 12

I flat out asked the 6 of them already did you follow through and they said yes. Those were the people I was worried about the others I know voted against the shrub.

[Hunter1952]

50. crossover

I was stunned this morning while listening to morning sedition on air america radio. They had the CIA author "anonymous" on there. He is the author of "Imperial Hubris". Mark asked him who he voted for and he said Bush because of Rehquist falling ill.

PS. This is the guy who said on 60 minutes last Sunday that Richard Clarke & George Tenet bear the most responsibility for 9/11. I thought "anonymous" was on OUR side because Franken had him on his show. Now he crucifies Richard Clarke!

[faithfull]

51. My own Mother...God bless her...

A 56 year old public school principal, voted Democrat for the first time in her life.

[neohippie]

55. somehow I always thought of most teachers as being democrats

or maybe it was just the ones I liked, that I remember in that light.

Well folks, if all of us know people who crossed over to vote against what clearly is the madness of king george revisited then how did we loose this election?

I think that our country is clearly under some kind of mass hypnosis at the hands of something that is clearly evil. The sheeple sleep like an infinite darkness hangs over their souls, It's like a deep fog that only allows them to see through a very narrow tunnel into reality.

They only seemed to be concerned when they see something going on that challenges their tiny belief system.

They get irate if you burn a flag, but not a village.

They will take their wallets out and write checks to challenge a woman's right to choose but they turn deaf ears on stories about the deformed babies born from effects of our using depleted uranium in ammunition.

They will whip their congregations into a voting frenzy if someone dares to challenge the sanctity of marriage, but ignore the moral crisis of a nation of peoples dehumanized and labeled as terrorists when they dare to fight to defend their own families and homes.

After all why should they care about what should happen in another country. They are in their comfort zones, If they don't like the news they have entertainment channels like the Fox News Channel.

But here at DU, we are wide awake, we have our own version of shock and awe, but it is driven by the sickness of seeing what the rest of our countrymen seem to be able to ignore.

Our shock and awe comes from seeing basic human rights stripped away across the globe in the name of the war on global terrorism.

It comes from watching our own constitutional rights being trampled by legislation like the Patriot act.

We sit in awe as the media takes their stories almost word for word from press releases of the corporations and government agencies that hand feed them.

The real problem with our media is that they fear that if they don't keep certain information OFF THE RECORD, then they will loose the tiny bit of access they still have left. That could lead to them having to resort to actual acts of journalism...

Research, Investigations and Interviews, OH MY!

[clspector]

57. yes, my next-door neighbor

has voted Republican in the past -- voted Kerry this time. In Texas.

[Digit]

59. My BIG boss and I had a conversation outside. (red state)

He said he was loathe to discuss politics, but this was the first election is was voting straight DEM and he was a registered Republican.
I told him it warmed my heart to hear him say that.

[inmania]

60. my 57yo mom

voted Kerry after a lifetime of mindlessly voting the repub ticket. She's a teacher and NCLB pushed her over the edge.

[kestrel91316]

61. I have a female ex-Marine client.................

who has always voted Republican...........she came over to the Dems this time. Says she knows LOTS of Marines and ex-Marines who HATE Bush.

[mirandapriestly]

62. My Step Mother Is A Big ProLifer, but she turned against Bush

so did my dad .