Out with old Bush, in with the new Kerry!

After the 2000's Florida fiasco, the retired Jewish community in West Palm Beach are in no mood for the possible re-election of George Bush.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1170370,00.html

"We were really angry in 2000, but we feel worse now. I'd vote for Mickey Mouse if he was running against George Bush - anyone, but Bush," says May Duke, who is sitting with her husband Sam, in the home of their mutual friend Sam Oser.
Appearances can be deceptive. This trio of retired Jewish New Yorkers, enjoying their twilight years in a huge but thoroughly middle-class retirement community in Florida's West Palm Beach, are, by their own admission, getting on a bit.

But mention the upcoming presidential contest, and the angry determination that spews forth would do justice to any gathering of committed student activists. They never liked Bush in the first place and at the time of the "butterfly ballot" fiasco, Mrs Duke, 76, was president of the local Democratic Club, which includes the majority of the Jewish residents here at Century Village among its membership.

The West Palm Beach ballot was one of several anomalies that turned Florida into the laughing-stock of the western democratic process in November 2000. It was the ballot where it wasn't at all clear to thousands of voters whether they were selecting Al Gore, or the right-wing Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan. He racked up 3,400 votes here, as compared to an average of 400 in other districts.

ballot? I wonder if her financial situation is different than it was befor the election.

My understanding--I never checked up on this, so it might be only a rumour--is that she was a Republican up til 1999 or so. She changed parties to get the job of elections supervisor (I can't imaaaagine why she'd want it, of course).

She's in her late 40s or so, iirc.