Reply #5: not totally surprising.

[rpannier]

a lot of kerry's support seems to come from people like me -- the I didn't vote for kerry, but i'll vote against bush. i don't feel a lot of passion from this guy and i'm not sure he believes what he says much of the time. i think this turns people off. there are some who are unhappy because their guy didn't win and they're mad. plus, and i think this is the overriding factor, he's one of us. he's part of the democratic party and we're kind of hard on our own. which is not a bad thing. come election day, we'll vote for him because he's the democrat -- we'll (including me) bitch about it, but we'll vote for him -- and when he's a success we'll all claim we were behind him from the beginning -- Kind of like what me and my Jerry Brown-supporting friends did with Bill Clinton.