I've had enough...I don't care who other people are voting for.....

[RickM]

This getting to you as well?

I don't give a $hit who people are voting for...wether Cher or Charlie Sheen or Joe Blow.

Just because the "Relatives of Bush" are voting for Kerry doesn't concern me....I don't care. Are people actually swayed because of someone else vote?

Maybe I'm unique, but the more people try to sell me something the more I resist...and Kerry has been so oversold it's nauseating. If I were on the fence and everywhere I look I have people, media, bumper stickers force feeding me I'd react in a negative way. Will there be a backlash/backfire for either side here?


Thanks for allowing me to vent.

[RallyJon]

Here's one that swayed me a bit. Certainly wouldn't have guessed from his columns...

Christopher Hitchens: Kerry

I am assuming for now that this is a single-issue election. There is one's
subjective vote, one's objective vote, and one's ironic vote. Subjectively,
Bush (and Blair) deserve to be re-elected because they called the enemy by
its right name and were determined to confront it. Objectively, Bush
deserves to be sacked for his flabbergasting failure to prepare for such an
essential confrontation. Subjectively, Kerry should be put in the pillory
for his inability to hold up on principle under any kind of pressure.
Objectively, his election would compel mainstream and liberal Democrats to
get real about Iraq.

The ironic votes are the endorsements for Kerry that appear in Buchanan's
anti-war sheet The American Conservative, and the support for Kerry's
pro-war candidacy manifested by those simple folks at MoveOn.org. I can't
compete with this sort of thing, but I do think that Bush deserves praise
for his implacability, and that Kerry should get his worst private nightmare
and have to report for duty.

[gr8fl4porsche]

I was talking to a friend yesterday and asked why he felt the need to put up a Presidential candidate yard sign - he replied that if he swayed only 1 undecided voter it is worth the trouble.

I told him that I hoped people would take their duty to vote more seriously than vote just based on a yard sign.

[RickM]

Then there's the notion that people vote for the last sign they saw.....still fresh in their memory.....science? I could actually see this working for unknowns in local elections. Moreso, than in a national scenario....

[gr8fl4porsche]

I agree Rick.

I think name recognition is big on the local level.
But if you have not heard who is running for the POTUS before seeing yard signs than maybe you should not be voting.

[dd74]

Am I to assume Hitchens is voting for Kerry?

[928ram]

Well I guess it does matter to some people who certain celebs are voting for, case in point: It was reported last night that of those folks who saw the FSMM's movie F-9/11 who felt that the movie swayed their vote in any way that those votes were swayed toward Bush by a better than 5 to 1 margin.
I guess it was one of those reverse phsychology things and Moore has been in the Bush corner all along??

[MichiganMat]

Bush has got a message for you:

http://www.videovotevigil.org/