RESULTS-DU SURVEY-Why Repugs DIDN'T Vote KERRY

[Laura PourMeADrink]

WHY THE REPUBLICANS YOU KNOW DIDN'T VOTE FOR KERRY...
(In Order of Frequency)

1. Abortion and He's a Baby Killer
2. Swift Boat/Vietnam related
3. Teresa
4. Don't Trust
5. Too Liberal
6. Flip Flopper
7. Will raise Taxes
8. Just don't like him
9. He's the Anti-Christ
10.His vote of the $87b
11.He's the Devil
12.He's Scary
13.He's a Liar
13.He's too rich
14.He looks too French
15.Friends with Michael Moore
16.He's got no guts
17.Not Patriotic Enough
18.Liked Bush's Iraq Debacle
19.Guns
20.Weak on Defense
21.Don't switch generals in middle of war
22.Just something about him - Just don't like him
23.Not Left Enough
24.Bush's Mess - Let him win and have to clean it up
25.Didn't get to know him enough (directly)
26.Love *
27.Gay Marraige - Marraige for a man and woman ONLY

[Eric J in MN]

1. "he's a flip-flopper!" (nt)

nt

[LoZoccolo]

2. In short, he's not left-wing enough.

All we need is to run someone who's further left, and all those things go away.

[clydefrand]

3. Gay marriage is between a man and a woman says GOD!

Also:
We just don't get it! The republicans just don't like being talked down to.

I have now lost a hairdresser after today...one I've been going to for 20 years...one that I thought had a helluva lot more sense than I heard today. I won't grace her bowl and chair again.

Also will not employ a jack-leg plumber that we had last week. I could tell where he was going when he started talking about things that the RW spout.

I'm doing my own damn litmus test, which is: If you voted for Bush, you don't get my business.

Now, I'm boycotting! I don't need to give my hard-earned $$$ to bigoted, narrow-minded people.

[Straight Shooter]

4. Interesting.

You did a good job.

Last on the list is "love bush"? Ha, that's funny! So much for bush's adoring fans.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Thanks. Most interesting to me - Teresa Hating

[BlueCaliDem]

5. He's Not A Republican. Face it, guys...

...Republicans with vote blindly for Republican no matter what--as we've seen in this last rigged election!
After all Bush had done--something they'd cream a Democrat for--Republicans will be good fascists, and vote their party every, single time.
The only reason why Clinton won, was because that was PRE-Evoting, which means, as expected, should every American be allowed to vote without intimidation, loss of registration, "glitch" prone evoting machines, and corrupt Republican Secretary of States...Gore would have won in 2000; Janet Reno of Florida, and Gray Davis of California would be governor today, and we'd be talking reelection Gore for his second term.
America has been hijacked, and that means, not another Democrat will ever be voted into powerful offices of the government again-- unless the Republicans let them, or...the Democrats DO something against this election power-grab!

[troubleinwinter]

7. What survey?

I see you managed to list the freeps' yack. Why post this?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. A survey I posted yesterday and compiled today

I think it's interesting. Shows what we are up against - Aside from abortion, most everything else is almost non-sensical and image-related. Proves you could talk yourself blue in the face (which most of us did) and it won't matter. Proves we have to come up with a completely different approach.

[troubleinwinter]

9. Link?

[Maat]

10. That was my experience.

I figured if I all I did was to inform them of the pertinent facts, they'd see reason and vote Bush out and Kerry in. This is what I thought early on anyway. Then I quickly realized that * could sacrifice a baby on television (as one wise DUer said), and it wouldn't make any difference.

[Justathought]

11. You forgot

a couple other reasons they did not vote for Kerry. He did not go awol and he had big hair.:kick:

[BREMPRO]

12. great info!- not the order i would have expected....

where did you post this survey? what was your sample size?

the abortion issue on top is not a surprise. but surprised by the low frequency of gay marriage- i would suspect they didn't want to admit that one, but was in fact more an issue.

also surprised by response to Iraq- "liked bush's Iraq debacle'/its bush's mess let win and clean it up" attittude- that seems to acknowledge that they agree its been a disaster.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Link. Operative Words: Rep's YOU KNOW SAID

Sorry - should have explained. This is a list of how DUers responded to the question: Why Republicans YOU KNOW didn't vote for Bush. Had 68 responses. All of the answers were single responses -except:
Abortion: 11
Vietnam:5
Teresa:5
Flip Flopper:3
Too Liberal:3
Trust: 3
Antichrist:2
Just don't like:2

Nothing scientific --

[BREMPRO]

15. thanks Laura... this is useful info

what's it like being a progressive living in the heart of bush country?

[genieroze]

14. If anyone is the antichrist it's Bush