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Maybe there is hope...

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 03:15pm on 06/07/2004
Talking to one of my colleagues at the telescope about US politics...

He's ex-military, a staunch republican, but says he's voting for Kerry so that Bush gets removed. And he thinks Bush is as good as gone.

So maybe there is hope after all!
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posted by [identity profile] daveon.livejournal.com at 07:26am on 06/07/2004
Well Bush has made himself unpopular in many Republican circles through his utter inability to look after the budget. That seems to have annoyed a portion of his traditional constituency.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 07:44am on 06/07/2004
But isn't this just Reaganomics mk 2? And they seemed to have liked that...

I've heard relatively little whining about the deficit from republican circles, but I'm not a local so don't follow the news that assiduously.

Judging from the record of the last few presidencies, if these people want a balanced budget they should be democrats not republicans!
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posted by [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com at 07:40am on 06/07/2004
And he thinks Bush is as good as gone.

With Kerry's selection of John Edwards as VP, he may be right. The on-line democratic faithful are practically in raptures after a few days of dreading a Gephardt selection.

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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 07:47am on 06/07/2004
I think Edwards is a good choice - he's more southern, more charismatic, more 'conservative' than Kerry, so he balances the ticket rather nicely.

I still worry that Bush's people will 'engineer' something near election time to bolster his chances - this might be bin Laden's capture, or some new terrorist outrage - but I hope we're reaching the point where even that won't save him.
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posted by [identity profile] crazysoph.livejournal.com at 09:14am on 06/07/2004
The suggestion by the Bush camp that conservative church congregations might like to turn over their membership lists for election purposes had a little to do with the change-of-heart, also.

The last two links via Body and Soul

Crazy(blame politics!)Soph
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 09:25am on 06/07/2004
Interesting...

One wonders whether this is a result of desperation or just of complete dunderheadedness...
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posted by [identity profile] nlindq.livejournal.com at 02:59pm on 06/07/2004
Actually, I'm not convinced that they didn't do this in 2000 and it just wasn't made a big deal of.

PBS did a Frontline documentary called The Jesus Factor where they explore George W.'s (and, to a lesser extent, George H.W.'s) very calculated courting of the evangelical vote.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 05:25am on 07/07/2004
If they did do it in 2000 and it wasn't an issue, then that's arguably more interesting - it would suggest that there's much more antipathy towards Bush in evangelical churches than there was in 2000.
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