How do we reach the republicans who hate Bush yet can't vote for a dem?

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Abbie Carlin, 51, who says she has never voted for a Democrat, can't bring herself to vote for the Republican this year. On opening day of the Clayton farmers market, she shopped for organic produce and rued the violence in Iraq.

Persuaded that deposed dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) harbored weapons of mass destruction that could be turned against the United States, Carlin said, she initially believed that invading Iraq was the right thing to do.

Then she was appalled, she said, when Bush declared the war was over, only to see U.S. casualties escalate amid no discoveries of Iraqi nuclear weapons. Now, she says she feels betrayed — by the war, by the way the administration has handled its aftermath, by the Iraqi prisoner scandal. "A huge, horrible mess" is how she described it.

But she still cannot bring herself to vote for Bush's rival. Kerry, Carlin said, is a politician she just can't trust, although she's beginning to think "you can't trust any of them."

Her default is to sit this election out: "I don't know what I'm going to do. I might not vote. They're both extremely distasteful to me."

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