2004 Bush supporters: how would you vote now?

[tristano's ghost]

Just curious... I think I already know the results.

[vibes]

I'm sure all the Bush supporters are going to come out of the woodwork for this one...

[tristano's ghost]

I predict a landslide for W. No need to credit my psychic powers...

Maybe I should've polled everybody as to whether or not they think Kerry would beat Bush if the election had been THIS November.

[RedJazz]

I get the impression that the Bush supporters who contribute to this list are hard core Republicans who would undoubtedly vote for whomever the Party put forward as a candidate. While it is true that over the past several decades the point spread between Republican and Democratic candidates has been increasingly narrow (reflecting IMHO the narrow distinction in their politics, and all the thrashing about between them really generates more heat than light), the fact is most voters are not hard core, which is what makes a horse race, or in this case an election. Unfortunately, however, I suspect that the independent types who actually decide elections will not be contributing to this thread.

[tristano's ghost]

Originally Posted by RedJazz

I get the impression that the Bush supporters who contribute to this list are hard core Republicans who would undoubtedly vote for whomever the Party put forward as a candidate. While it is true that over the past several decades the point spread between Republican and Democratic candidates has been increasingly narrow (reflecting IMHO the narrow distinction in their politics, and all the thrashing about between them really generates more heat than light), the fact is most voters are not hard core, which is what makes a horse race, or in this case an election. Unfortunately, however, I suspect that the independent types who actually decide elections will not be contributing to this thread.

In other words, the Republicans here are of the so-called "baby-eating-bad" variety... as in, "Dick Cheney could go on live TV and eat a live baby, and they would still vote for the Bush ticket."

[crawjo]

I could be wrong, but I think the only regular contributors to JC who voted for Bush were Gordon B, Monte, Coda, and Willy. Maybe I'm missing somebody. Anyway the group of people probably isn't large enough to have a poll.

[GoodSpeak]

I wouldn't vote for Bush at gun point.



But I guess it doesn't really matter, eh?










The Sheep would vote for Bush if he was beelzebub himself.

[tristano's ghost]

Two alleged Bush supporters now say they'd vote for Kerry?!

Methinks we have some McCain Democrats crossing party lines.

[sonic1]

You should have made it an open poll. Anyone can vote. Hell, even I was tempted to vote for Kerry even though I was not a Bush supporter. I am going to guess Rollhead was one of those votes.