# IS anyone seriously considering voting for J. F. Kerry...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [April 24, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848 "2004-04-24T22:14:39Z")
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/1 "2004-04-24T22:14:39Z")
… as opposed to voting against G. W. Bush?
I must say i am for W, but would really like to know if the ‘opposition’ is really voting for F’s vision of the country or really is voteing anyone but W.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/2 "2004-04-24T22:20:03Z")
Count me in as a Kerry supporter, although I’m in the ABBA (anyone but Bush again) camp. I started off as a Dean supporter.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/3 "2004-04-24T22:23:20Z")
Yes.
And is anyone seriously voting for George W. Bush as opposed to voting against John Kerry?
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/4 "2004-04-24T22:25:51Z")
Kerry voter here. Although, I was pulling for Wesley Clark in the beginning and wouldn’t mind seeing him as a VP.
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/5 "2004-04-24T22:28:00Z")
I’m voting for Kerry’s vision and Bush’s eviction.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/6 "2004-04-24T22:28:08Z")
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> And is anyone seriously voting for George W. Bush as opposed to voting against John Kerry?
Yes
And start your own thread!
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### Author:  [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/7 "2004-04-24T22:30:30Z")
I am considering it. I have been reading up, trying to get more information about the goals and positions of all the Democratic primary candidates. If Kerry will be running in November, I am leaning toward voting for him.
Oh, and who do you consider the ‘opposition’? I’m a registered Republican.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/8 "2004-04-24T22:33:55Z")
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> , I am leaning toward voting for him.
> Oh, and who do you consider the ‘opposition’? I’m a registered Republican.
Do we really have to go here?
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/9 "2004-04-24T22:34:23Z")
I’m voting against George Bush, yes. Kerry seems like an okay guy. I’ve heard him speak and he sounds like he has a working brain in his head, so that would be a major improvement. But I’m not like, “WOOOO, KERRY RULES!!!”
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/10 "2004-04-24T22:35:23Z")
> [@Magickly Delicious](#):
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> I am considering it. I have been reading up, trying to get more information about the goals and positions of all the Democratic primary candidates. If Kerry will be running in November, I am leaning toward voting for him.
You do realize that the primaries are over, right? Kerry is the Democratic candidate and he will be running against Bush in November.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/11 "2004-04-24T22:57:23Z")
> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Yes
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> And start your own thread!
Uh…no. That was a legitimate question, and I hope it illustrated the absurdity of your OP. Of course people are voting for Kerry on his own merits. And people are going to vote for Nader on \*his \* own merits. The same holds true for Bush and any other candidate for election this year. If you honestly think that “the opposition” just votes \*against \* Bush and not \*for \* anyone else, then you need to rip off the AM dial of your radio.
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### Author:  [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/12 "2004-04-24T23:43:32Z")
Let it be said that I would vote for Muggs the Chimp rather than Bush Inc., but that being said, I am impressed with Kerry: not only his recent pronouncements, but the ones that date back decades also.
TV
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### Author:  [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/13 "2004-04-24T23:49:24Z")
I’m voting for Kerry. A vote for Kerry is a vote for balanced budgets, sensible foreign policy, separation of church and state, and appointing Supreme Court Justices that will uphold civil liberties. These are positive developments. Things that I can be proud of with a Kerry Administration.
I’m not going to vote for Kerry just because I hate Bush.
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### Author:  [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/14 "2004-04-24T23:53:03Z")
From what I’ve heard so far, Kerry’s vision for the country is a lot closer to the America I’d like to live in than Bush’s is.
I freely admit that Kerry wasn’t my first Democratic choice, but since he seems to be the candidate, I do think he’d be a better president than Bush. So I’m going to vote for him, unless photos of him raping refugee children or wearing a white hood surface between now and November.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/15 "2004-04-24T23:54:40Z")
If the AOL Presidential Candidate Chooser web page
[http://www.presidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main](http://www.presidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main)
is correct, then I agree with Kerry on issues in the high 90 percentile.
If this is correct, then I have no problem voting **for** Kerry. Time will tell if his views on the issues really agree with mine as much as this.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/16 "2004-04-24T23:57:02Z")
> [@FisherQueen](#):
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> So I’m going to vote for him, unless photos of him raping refugee children or wearing a white hood surface between now and November.
Karl’s working on it as we speak. 😃
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### Author:  [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/17 "2004-04-25T00:05:08Z")
[QUOTE=Blalron]
I’m voting for Kerry. A vote for Kerry is a vote for balanced budgets, sensible foreign policy, separation of church and state, and appointing Supreme Court Justices that will uphold civil liberties. These are positive developments.
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Nailed it.
Be good to have someone in the White House that thinks rich people should pay more taxes (and I’m a traitor to my tax bracket for saying so). Ditto for a leader that thinks there should be fiscal responsibility (none of this slash taxes, spend $100 billion on Iraq and hocus pocus discredited supply side reaganimics will make America as a whole better off).
I’m also for having a former combat vet in charge of US military.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/18 "2004-04-25T00:25:00Z")
Voting against Bush and indifferent to Kerry (which is not to say I don’t like him, but rather that he hasn’t really grabbed me (yet)). I’d love a few more choices that aren’t one-issue candidates, but I don’t like Nader and I don’t agree with much of the Libertarian platform.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/19 "2004-04-25T00:33:15Z")
I agree with Kerry on most of the issues, and am definitely voting my conscience in voting for him. If “republican” meant what it used to (more personal freedoms, smaller government), I’d probably be one.
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### Author:  [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-seriously-considering-voting-for-j-f-kerry/241848/20 "2004-04-25T00:41:53Z")
I look at it as a double whammy – I’m voting for Kerry cause I agree with him on the major issues _and_ I get to vote idiot boy out of office. Woohoo!!
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