Blame Kerry
This Chris Suellentrop piece brings up a great point from last night, although the title ("Blame Nader") draws the wrong conclusion. I was one of those undecideds who wound up voting Nader. My reader knows I was heavily leaning towards Nader all along. Still, I gave Kerry every opportunity to win me over, but he just couldn't -- I didn't even feel like he tried.
I have friends and family who are staunch Democrats, and when I literally begged them for reasons to vote for Kerry, the only ones even they could give is that he wasn't Bush. But Nader wasn't Bush, either, and it so happened he's a guy I wasn't revolted by. While I'm sure that Democrats will find ways to blame Nader, the truth is, in this realm it's all Kerry's fault.
Sadly, I agree with Jim Carville and the head-hanging Democrats on CNN last night, who despondently admitted their party is compassless right now and "heading into the wilderness." Though I don't care for Howard Dean and long ago gave up on Dennis Kucinich, I would've preferred the Democrats get creamed (in a Goldwater way) with one of them at the top of their ticket than have some excuse to continue four more years of pretending they have any sense of what America wants. Instead, as Nader often says, lukewarm Democrats lost to the worst of the right wing ideologues (Bunning, Coburn et. al).
As I look at some virtually meaningless exit polls, there are some numbers that are too big to ignore. Respondents were asked if they considered themselves Liberal (21%), Moderate (45%), or Conservative (33%). I can very easily believe that there are more moderates than liberals or conservatives in America. What I can’t believe is that there are so few liberals -- can we guess that they’re out there, just not voting?
Something small but potentially interesting: on the questions about invading Iraq and being there now, Nader only got 0-1% across the board. Ask anti-war Democrats today what they got by capitulating. Something else that confirms what Nader has said all along, about Democrats moving back into the fold this year: asked who they voted for in 2000, the 4% of "other" respondents went 68-18-8 for Kerry. The only other category of people with a statistically significant number of Nader voters was the "didn't vote in 2000" category. So it looks like Nader is, like he said, bringing new voters to the polls.
An aside: the results of P. Diddy's campaign: it seems most people chose death.
I have friends and family who are staunch Democrats, and when I literally begged them for reasons to vote for Kerry, the only ones even they could give is that he wasn't Bush. But Nader wasn't Bush, either, and it so happened he's a guy I wasn't revolted by. While I'm sure that Democrats will find ways to blame Nader, the truth is, in this realm it's all Kerry's fault.
Sadly, I agree with Jim Carville and the head-hanging Democrats on CNN last night, who despondently admitted their party is compassless right now and "heading into the wilderness." Though I don't care for Howard Dean and long ago gave up on Dennis Kucinich, I would've preferred the Democrats get creamed (in a Goldwater way) with one of them at the top of their ticket than have some excuse to continue four more years of pretending they have any sense of what America wants. Instead, as Nader often says, lukewarm Democrats lost to the worst of the right wing ideologues (Bunning, Coburn et. al).
As I look at some virtually meaningless exit polls, there are some numbers that are too big to ignore. Respondents were asked if they considered themselves Liberal (21%), Moderate (45%), or Conservative (33%). I can very easily believe that there are more moderates than liberals or conservatives in America. What I can’t believe is that there are so few liberals -- can we guess that they’re out there, just not voting?
Something small but potentially interesting: on the questions about invading Iraq and being there now, Nader only got 0-1% across the board. Ask anti-war Democrats today what they got by capitulating. Something else that confirms what Nader has said all along, about Democrats moving back into the fold this year: asked who they voted for in 2000, the 4% of "other" respondents went 68-18-8 for Kerry. The only other category of people with a statistically significant number of Nader voters was the "didn't vote in 2000" category. So it looks like Nader is, like he said, bringing new voters to the polls.
An aside: the results of P. Diddy's campaign: it seems most people chose death.
posted by Mark at 9:24 AM
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