[counterpunch]

Also, we cannot rule out the many new republican voters picked up by Al Gore's temper tantrum in 2000. A lot of people who didn't pay much attention to politics prior to that follow very closely today and are deeply offended that he tried to steal the election in broad daylight. Couple that with President Bush's post 9/11 performance.

YES! I am one of those voters!
And that is exactly why I started paying attention to politics. I grew up during the Reagan years, and he was like a grandfather to me. My politics have always been as they are, mostly because it's what has always been sensible to me. But prior to the Florida fiasco, I didn't pay much attention to politics, and didn't speak up on political issues at all. Pre-9/11, I'd never even voted.

The Al Gore's attempted election theft and the increasingly shrill diatribe from the left changed all of that, as did 9/11 and the President's heroic leadership.

I, too, believe I am not an exception.

[alnick]

YES! I am one of those voters!

Me too, that's why I always bring that up. I was a registered republican before then, but I was apolitical. Sometimes I voted, sometimes I didn't. I didn't really think there was very much difference between the parties.

My outrage at the total corruption of the democrat party is still boiling, and as a result of their display during the recounts, I became a hardcore, broken-glass republican.

Like you, I cannot believe I'm an exception.