Posted on 08/13/2004 9:09:19 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
This will be interesting. How many people do you personally know who are voting for Kerry?
I live in Chelsea, NYC, where I swear it is a local ordinance that "STOP BUSH" be written every 20 feet on the sidewalk, awnings or mailboxes. I confront DNC and ACT volunteers on a daily basis, and am virtually alone in doing so. Today a woman joined me and told them "don't you remember 9/11? Of course I am voting Bush". I asked her to pinch me that I wasn't hallucinating.
It is not a pleasant experience.
Nuff said.
You need to encourage the others to go ahead and scribble Howard Deans name in also.
None. I am too awesomely cool to hang out with people dumb enough to vote for the "Frenchurian Ketchupness".
LOL! I like you!
*Sigh*.....I have the unfortunate pleasure of working with almost nothing but leftists, so I know at least 20 or 30 for sure that are.
I work with mostly NEA members. Of around 200 of us, I can think of maybe six who won't vote for Kerry.
I don't know of any for sure but I suspect three of my neighbors are voting for Kerry as well as three old highschool friends--suspect--don't know for sure.
And......She is the biggest pro Bush supporter that I have met so far (besides me)and she is doing her part to make sure that Kerry disappears from politics forever. Sorry I left that out.
Excellent! I knew there was more to the story!
Oh, man, to borrow a phrase from the Sinkmeister, "I feel your pain."
That has got to stink, knowing you're just cancelling each other out.
My wife and I always bug my extreeemely liberal sister, who has lived here in the People's Republic of Minnesota for 13 years or so, that the 2 of us moved here two years ago just so we could outvote her and help Bush win re-election. She's not happy about it.
Really? Ask to see her statements. I doubt VERY much that her account went down $80K right after March 2003. Make her prove it.
Then make sure she pulls out her statements from March of 2000 through January of 2001, to see how well her account did while Clinton was still in office.
As you know, I live in an apartment complex chock full of illegal aliens. They damsure shouldn't be voting for anybody, but I bet several can because of three years of MotorVoter before the Driver's Certificate program was implemented.
I don't know anyone voting for Kerry, but I've run across several of those "Anybody but Bush" idiots. Good grief, Osama Bin Laden is "anybody but Bush". Back in the South's bad ol' days they used to use literacy tests at the polls to disenfranchise blacks. I propose competency tests no harder than Leno's Jaywalking questions. If that were done I'd be more than satisfied that most of the idiots wouldn't see the inside of a voter station.
I know one for sure, a Jewish guy in his 50's. He started an argument with me the day after he saw the Moore movie. He bought into all of the propaganda and declared that he wanted Bush dead. His biggest gripe was that his business sucked because of Bush. I challenged him to tell me what Clinton had done that was so good for him, and what Bush did that was so bad. Silence. I pointed out to him that the recession started during the last year of Clinton. Silence. End of argument. He changed the subject.
A lot of my neighbors ... and 3 girlfriends. But most people I know are voting for Bush.
Here in Indiana-
Ones I know FOR SURE will vote Kerry- My younger sister, her boyfriend, my uncle and his wife; and a female co-worker.
Ones I know FOR SURE will vote Bush-My mother and father; both sets of grandparents; my aunt; two of my friends and their wives; a male co-worker; my great uncle and his wife; my great aunt and her husband; and myself.
It's pretty well split down the middle of the people I know; however, most not voting for GWB aren't voting for Kerry, they're just ABB in a "higly nuanced and sensitive way" (e.g. some combination of pro-choice, pro-PETA, pro-Green, pro-NEA, pro-Union, pro-socialism, pro-multiculturalism, etc.). On the ABB side, most are women with a few real "girly men" thrown in who'd, LOL, be thrown out if they had any other view.
I think it is important to note our family tendencies as well as our overall environment as to who is voting. My mother, brother, his wife, my wife, my two sons, my daughter and her husband, and all but one of my close friends are for Bush. My in-laws are Democrats and would vote for an unripe banana over the prez. My middle daughter is our lone ranger liberal, but she may not vote and we don't encourage her to.
In my workplace, only one person besides myself out of thirty will identify with the president. Bumper stickers are 20-1 for Kerry, the Democrats as a whole, or insulting the president. There is no question those who hate him are louder and more in your face.
I'd have to agree with you-the Anti-Bush folks are definitely louder about it. I live in an extremely conservative county-in a very conservative state (Indiana)-but everyday I see multiple Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers-and have yet to see a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker. The Dems here know they don't have a snowballs' chance in hell-but its' like they think they're really tweaking the rest us by tooting their horn for Kerry. More power to em'. Personally, I think bumper stickers and yard signs are tacky-and most people I know agree. We just let our votes do the talking...
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