Do you think GD:P was as divisive in 2004 as it is now, 2008?

[MoonRiver]

Poll question: Do you think GD:P was as divisive in 2004 as it is now, 2008?

[ZombieHorde]

1. When I first read your poll I mistook GDP for GOP.

This lead to some fun confusion.

[MoonRiver]

2. Thanks. I updated to reduce confusion.

:hi:

[TheDonkey]

3. Apples and Oranges some what. It was not this binary in 2004

when there were about 4 top tier candidate bases duking it out on DU. So while it was very harsh, especially against or for Dean this time all that anger is split between just 2 candidates.

[MoonRiver]

4. Passion and acrimony are the same, imo, regardless of how many candidates are running.

I know I feel totally different now than then.

[JimGinPA]

5. It Was A Lot Easier For Me To Move From Dean To Kerry

Than it would ever be for me to move from Obama to Hillary. I could donate & work for Kerry.

[MoonRiver]

7. Same for me moving from Clark to Kerry.

I even phone banked, contributed money, and held house parties for Kerry. No way would I do anything for Obama.

[Bongo Prophet]

6. It was shorter, more diluted and less new infiltrators. No sex/race issues either.

[Breeze54]

8. I was a member here then but I hung out on RRMB daily and rarely

came over here then. I knew a lot of peeps on RRMB and that's when my son got deployed to Iraq so, I stuck with old friends for support. I mosied back over here in 2005 or 2006... I don't remember what month though. It may have been near when my son was coming home... Dec. 2005? :shrug:

(ON EDIT) Thinking more about it; in 2004, I was trying to help get Kerry elected and a local guy for state senate, so I actually didn't spend a lot of time on RRMB or DU back then or online. I was to busy and traveling to out-of-state to register voters and working full-time. I didn't have a lot of time to 'be online' back then anyway.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Yes. It just didn't last as long in '04, since the primary was essentially over after NH.

[Mooney]

10. It's exactly the same

The number of people saying they will never vote for (whoever), the caterwauling, the assertions that candidate X is a Republican, the assertions that candidate Y is worse than Bush, the assertion that (extremely minor issue) is the worst, most atrocious thing ever to happen in the history of America... it's all soooooooo 2004.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[MoonRiver]

11. So you were here then?

You only have 81 posts on DU after all.