does it really matter if you vote for kerry/against *, or how reluctantly?

[ButterflyBlood]

a vote is a vote. It doesn't matter if you drive down to the polling place at twice the speed limit drooling your way in just salivating at the opportunity to vote for Kerry, or if you bring a barf bucket in and have to miss work tommorow because you end up in the hospital having left puked out useful body fluids. It's 1 vote for Kerry either way.

Vote for Kerry to oppose *, vote for him because you like him so much, do it reluctantly or enthusiastically, I don't care. Just vote for him.

[rockymountaindem]

1. Well said.

[The Magistrate]

2. Indeed, Mr. Blood

A vote is a vote; the reasons behind it are immaterial to the outcome of an election.

A fair proportion of the votes Sen. Kerry receives will come because he is the taller man, and they will count the same as your's or mine.

"Can't nobody here play this game?"

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[sangh0]

3. Oh, it matters very much

to those who think politics is supposed to be entertaining. I've heard that there are special effects if you vote enthusiastically, though no one can explain exactly what they are

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. In this case it would probably involve

...growing a lot of wool and grazing in an open pasture.

[sangh0]

10. Cool

I love the outdoors, and I am easily chilled so that new non-seatshop wool coat will be appreciated

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. No, it doesn't. A vote is a vote. n/t

[Pastiche423]

6. My vote has been made irrelevant

I may just frame my ballot as a memento to the 1st time I will not have voted in a presidential election in my lifetime.

It's just one irrelevant vote, after all.

[Skeptical Democrat]

7. Doesn't matter, a vote counts the same no matter the feeling behind it

[newyawker99]

8. Hi Skeptical Democrat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[redqueen]

9. Oh but I think it does

I think it does our party good to know just how many Democrats are dissatisfied with the centrist direction its been drifting for lo these past 20 odd years.

I'm not saying Kerry's a centrist -- for all I know he started his bush voting with the foreknowledge that he would be running (not stupid, given that polls and propoganda rule the day).

What I'm saying is that without some measure of how much of the party is voting enthusiastically vs. grudgingly, we have no way of knowing if the party is heading in the right direction.

Just MHO.