sadly, I was still not eligible to vote back in 2004. Also, sadly, Kerry was not a great option at all *sigh*

I agree navigator33, I wasn't able to vote in '04 but I wasn't feeling John Kerry that much.

that election was, for me, the lesser of who cares ... (to quote leo mcgarry) but i still regret my vote. i am confident that i won't this year, though!

I did not vote because I honestly could not decide between Bush and Kerry, I didn't like Bush, but I found Kerry awful. I knew NYS would go to the dems anyway, so I just didn't even vote!

This year though, I can't imagine how anyone could ever be undecided up until election day, so I really question not voting in 2004! How could I have known/cared so little about the issues that I couldn't have voted...

I grew up in a very conservative family, and I had just turned 18 and my political views were changing, I think that played a role in it, still it's embarrassing to admit I didn't vote because I was undecided!

I voted for Kerry, but I wasn't passionate about him at all. I think I would have voted for Satan himself just to get Bush out of office.

2004 election was rigged, so it really doesn't matter who we voted for, now does it?

I don't see why no one was excited about Kerry. I liked that guy, and we agreed on most of the issues. I was happy to vote for him.

My politics have changed drastically since '04. I had this thing called "Safety" drilled into my brain by Bush. I'm passionate about the candidate I'm voting for. I feel we need change and I'm standing firmly.

Snowbunny that was me as well. If I could vote again I would have voted Kerry, not that it would have mattered, since I was an Alaska absentee and that state is very red.

didn't vote for bush but like snow i couldn't get myself to vote for either one, heidi bush is satan himself so there is no other person worse than him

I liked Kerry and loved his wife. Teresa is a class act. I wish he'd delivered as passionate a speech in 2004 as he did at the democratic convention this year.

I wasn't eligible to vote in 2004 I missed it by 4 months! I was very aggravated! I would have voted Kerry.

I'd vote for Kerry again. I didn't love him, but I trusted that he would have made this country better instead of dragging us down into the mess we're in today. And Liliblu's right - Teresa would have been a great First Lady.

"2004 election was rigged, so it really doesn't matter who we voted for, now does it?"

Wow - does this mean that any election that the republicans win is going to be rigged? Can we say "sour grapes"?

Agreed yesteryear.

I would take back my vote for Bush. I think he's a terrible man who has played a major part of stripping this country of its Constitution. And Cheney, oh boy.

I wouldn't have voted for Kerry either. This year I won't vote for McCain or Obama, I think they're just the same, and while their administrations will differ slightly, I think they're still taking America down the wrong path.

I will vote of course.

So Ruck you're voting 3rd party then?

I'm proud that I've voted for Bush twice.

I wasn't eligible to vote.

i wouldnt take my vote back.

I did not like either one and was out of state so I could not vote. I think that was like the lost year in politics. CRAP. I would have voted for Gore over Kerry. ugh.

Rigged how?

I voted Kerry and I won't take my vote back (I wanted mr. Bush out of the office) As for my Gore vote , that one pissed me off so much because of the controversial electoral crap that went on. If I had to choose, of course I'd opt for Gore than Kerry!

I've always voted Democrat, but right now, I'm very undecided. I don't know if I like McCain and some of his economic plan, I respected his background as a vet though, as for Obama, I don't know if I agree with his economic plan and I don't know much about his experience as well although I stand by many of his principles.

Yeah, I wasn't excited about Kerry, but I definitely don't regret voting for him instead of Bush. I do regret my vote in 1996--I wish I could take that one back.

"2004 election was rigged, so it really doesn't matter who we voted for, now does it?"

Dave-"Wow - does this mean that any election that the republicans win is going to be rigged? Can we say "sour grapes"?"

Dave are you unaware of the problems in Ohio in 2004?

I wasn't old enough to vote sadly...I missed the deadline by like 3 weeks.

liliblu and florida the biggest scandal with the rigging

Do you mean the 2000 election being rigged? Because I believe that was a mess of an election.

There have been lawsuits in Ohio over the 2004 election geebers.

I heard about problems in both FL in 2000, and OH in 2004, yes. Does voting problems equate to rigging? No.

well i'm not surprised about how people are responding to this one, and i lived in FL back in the '04 election, so i can say that i understand the frustrations there. i wouldn't change my vote but i know of a lot of people who felt that they couldn't necessarily vote in the way that they want because of pressure in their communities.

Here is a rolling stone article about it written by Robert Kennedy Jr., that went into some detail. There are many other sources of information.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_st...

yes in 2000 the year was not the point the rigging was, and yes i stand by that, undave are you forget it

rolling stone and kennedy. yup, there are some sources there.

Here are a few clips from "Stealing America: Vote by Vote".

http://www.stealingamericathemovie.org/multiple.html

Pink - Did that not go before a judge, who ruled against Gore in the matter? Why is it that when a judged doesn't rule in your favor, it's bad?

GS, Idoubt any source I provide will persuade you. But, I'll pull articles from local Ohio newspapers and information from the lawsuits that have been filed.

But if a judge rules in your favor, it is justice upheld!

lil, nothing has come of these claims because they are just that, claims.

Childish, sore loser claims.

Okay GS, you are now saying that people who watched their vote switch from Kery to Gore, people who had their voting machines black out on them, people who waited 3 to 5 hours in line while people in other districts only had to wait about 15 minutes are sore losers?

I'm thinking those problems weren't necessarily the fault of the Republican party. It's just you that wants to blame them for everything.

GS will probably dismiss this as well but some of you may be interested.
"Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio"
Status Report of the
House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
http://www.openelections.org/lib/downloads/references/house_judiciary/fi...

I have a hard time believing that everyone who testified and/or filed suit are lying because their candidate lost. These tactics could be used against your favored candidate in the future.

I'd like to see how many were reported actually on election day or the next day.

Many of these complaints were made on election day. I remember that from listening to radio. The mainstream media ignored and dismissed the numerous complaints. But people were complaining from day one and have not let the issue die.

"The first phase of malfeasance entailed, among many other actions, several months of bureaucratic hijinks aimed at disenfranchising Democrats, the most spectacular result of which was “a wide discrepancy between the availability of voting machines in more minority, Democratic and urban areas as compared to more Republican, suburban and exurban areas.” Such unequal placement had the predictable effect of slowing the voting process to a crawl at Democratic polls, while making matters quick and easy in Bush country: a clever way to cancel out the Democrats' immense success at registering new voters in Ohio. (We cannot know the precise number of new voters registered in Ohio by either party because many states, including Ohio, do not register voters by party affiliation. The New York Times reported in September, however, that new registration rose 25 percent in Ohio's predominantly Republican precincts and 250 percent in Ohio's predominantly Democratic precincts.)

At Kenyon College in Gambier, for instance, there were only two machines for 1,300 would-be voters, even though “a surge of late registrations promised a record vote.” Gambier residents and Kenyon students had to stand in line for hours, in the rain and in “crowded, narrow hallways,” with some of them inevitably forced to call it quits. “In contrast, at nearby Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, which is considered more Republican leaning, there were ample waiting machines and no lines.” This was not a consequence of limited resources. In Franklin County alone, as voters stood for hours throughout Columbus and elsewhere, at least 125 machines collected dust in storage. The county's election officials had “decided to make do with 2,866 machines, even though the analysis showed that the county needs 5,000 machines.”
http://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/0080696

I really liked Kerry -- BUSH just rubbed me the wrong way -- and now I know why. This is when I question the need for a Third party.

I actually did not even vote in the last election, i went to see Kerry a couple of times at some conventions, but he just seemed a little weak. I didn't really like Kerry but I hated Bush. it was the first time that I just decided NOT to vote all. Not this year, i will most definitely be voting!

2004 was my first election, and even though I wasn't a huge Kerry fan (wasn't a fan of how that campaign was run in general, and didn't really like the direction the Democrats went with not appealing to different demographics--y'know, the "Joe Six-Packs" of the eligible voters ), I voted for him. I sure as hell wasn't going to vote for Bush, but eh. Wouldn't take the vote back now. I really wanted Gore to win, but at that time I was 17, a month away from my birthday, and laid up in the hospital while watching that whole mess unfold on TV.

Dream, amen on Third Parties! Go Libertarians!

I voted for George Bush and I'm so grateful that I did. Even though things aren't perfect and there are problems with the economy, I feel like our country is safe, and to me that is the most important thing. The economy will no longer seem so terrible if we are hit by another terrorist attack. Which, in my opinion, is inevitable if we elect Barack Obama as our next president. We have not had another attack in America since September 11th, and I believe that we have George Bush, his supporters and advisors, and our armed forces to thank for that.

And with regards to Ms. Heinz-Kerry, seeing her name and the words "class act" in the same sentence made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that Liliblu!