Could it be? Yes, it could. Something's coming, something good, If I can wait!Shock at my table/ NC

[Mira]

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I have, after the time of the Uniter not the divider one Republican friend left.
In the past, distant though it seems, I not always knew the Politics of my friends, but that has drastically changed in the last decade or so, and my one Republican friend and I have left it at agreeing to disagree in principle and that we would not discuss Politics ever or the damage her only TV channel, Foxx youknowwhat does to her, but I was given permission to send her things to read without comment, and an answer was not expected (and never came).

A large American flag flies at the entrance of the condo. I always resent her having stolen MY flag to make HER point. Her neighbors are also Republican, many more flags, and I know they party and get together and are of one political mindset.

She was at my dinner table tonight.
We - 7 of us - had a lovely time discussing many different things until she dinged her wine glass and asked for our attention:

"I'm in a group tonight where I know I am not going to be chastized for what I am about to tell you. But for reasons all of you are clear on and I am beginning to see the light about I have early voted for Kay Hagan.
My first vote of my life that was not Republican

That's all folks.
Kay Hagan will win NC

[elleng]

1. THANK YOU, Mira

and friend, we NEED that!

[3catwoman3]

2. Wow!!!

Let's hope there are more like her, not only in NC, but in lots of other races.

[Warpy]

3. Slowly and steadily, they're starting to wake up

Oh, they'll still call themselves Republicans, it beats admitting how gullible they've been all these years. However, you'll see Democratic numbers continue to rise. That's the good thing about the secret ballot, you get to vote to please yourself and lie about it later.

[Mira]

4. Yes. Exactly. The dawning is upon them that

the Republicans of yore are not the ones of today. The break through slow realizations about that their one source for news: Fox is blatantly putting them on is the start of this colossal awakening.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. Let's hope she has as much influence with her friends as you obviously had with her. Good job.

[Cha]

6. For you, Mira..

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"My first Republican vote of my life.".. did you mean "Democratic"?.. Anyway this is excellent news, Mira! to your friend!

Best of Good Luck to Kay Hagan!

[Mira]

10. Thanks for the helps Cha

I fixed it.
I'm tired. I cooked a big dinner

[Cha]

12. I so know how that goes.. :)

Good news from David Corn, eh?

[Fred Sanders]

32. Ferguson was an eye opener as to how many folk do not vote, an untapped pool of first time voters.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Thanks for the West Side Story ear worm.

[Mira]

8. You are welcome :)

I've been hummin' it

[jaysunb]

9. This is almost as good as your photo's.

[Mira]

11. Now I can go to sleep even

happier

[jtuck004]

13. You know they want the same things we do. But in the vacuum left by not

working with the people the Kochs, et al, found an opening.

You kept the door open, and that's the hardest damn thing to do in a country where we reinforce anything but working together and taking control.

Good work.

[calimary]

14. NICE, Mira! Brava!!!

Thank you for ALL of us!!!!!! Good work saving at least one more soul! REALLY appreciate your sharing this salvation saga - it oughta perk everybody up around here! Little by little. Like I tell the band every so often - Stack the Legos. Stack the Legos. Just keep stacking the Legos.

[gratuitous]

15. Is your friendship durable enough?

It's a silly question, I suppose, given your years as friends. But if you judge your friendship is strong enough, do you think you can ask her what went into changing her mind? Is there any one thing or a few things that made her cast her ballot for Hagan instead of Tillis?

If you think you would offend her or get her all defensive, never mind. But I'd be curious to find out what influenced her.

[freshwest]

16. Predicted by Moral Monday leader, Reverend William Barber:

I talked to a black woman in North Carolina two weeks ago. She was not of my generation, born after the death of MLK, Jr. and didn't go through the grief of those days. (She was an Obama fan, too!)

She was so much more confident than myself. I said I was concerned that youth were not taught the history. But she said the older folks were talking to the young people and she was sure they would once again overcome.

It eased my heart, like your post, and I think you for it.

[packman]

33. Damn, that's a good video around the 37 min. mark

it really takes off.

[Fred Sanders]

35. Yep.

[No Vested Interest]

17. Patience and civility pay off, and you have kept a friend.

Practically all of my local friends are Republicans - that's just the way it around here. Those who were Democrats either married Republicans and/or weren't interested enough to keep their own counsel.

Since we usually meet in our homes for charity work, I neither insult them in their homes or as guests in mine.
They know where I stand, and I speak up on occasion to correct factually incorrect information, but no arguing.

Despite my lifetime loyalty to Democratic principles, tied in with my education in social justice, I value long-time friends, which are not easily replaced as we age.

[Major Hogwash]

18. From out of the dark, they emerge, eyes blinking, heads shaking, suddenly filled with knowledge.

As if transported from another time and another place, some Republicans are beginning to shake off the urge to vote the same way they have for years. In some cases, for decades. Knowing that they don't have to admit how they voted to other friends or members of their family, they cast their vote in secret, wondering if they are making a change for the better.

[vlyons]

19. People do not hear the truth, until they are ready to listen and receive it.

Usually, their readiness follows some difficulty, struggle, or unhappiness that shakes things up in their thinking. That's why I never give up hope on any Republican, no matter how stupid and stubborn they seem. The rabid Republicans have become so absolutely VULGAR in the last few years that decent, fair-minded people, who have for years voted Republican, are getting disgusted with bullshit like suppressing the vote and not supporting raising the minimum wage. Those people go into the super market and see that a loaf of bread is now $5. They know that children and grandchildren cannot afford college. They are struggling too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. I give you credit for this, my dear Mira.

For keeping the dialogue open, for being a friend despite political differences.
Marvelous reward for your dinner party!

[Shanti Mama]

21. My "old school Republican" cousin, too

He actually posted to Facebook! Used an image of one of the great Dwight Eisenhower quotes and said the Republican party is no longer his party. People ARE waking up!

[mnhtnbb]

22. Hooray!

Tillis and his Repub cronies went too far after they gained control in 2012
as a result of the gerrymandering, thanks to the low turnout in 2010.

I sure hope that Karma is visiting him, come Tuesday.

[lame54]

23. my wife and I early voted last Tuesday in Wilmington, NC

What we noticed was people carrying a lot of blue information sheets at the polls.



oh yeah we voted blue all the way.

[CrispyQ]

24. I hope that a lot of average repub Americans are starting to see past the soundbites

and tons of Koch paid ads & finally see the repubs for the destructive party they are.

[MineralMan]

25. K&R for the West Side Story allusion.

And for a vote for Kay Hagan, too.

[handmade34]

26. we can hope!

[riversedge]

27. Lovely

[loudsue]

28. I'm REALLY glad your friend saw at least some light. But Tom Tillis is going to win NC

There is absolutely no doubt. The Koch brothers have spent so much money in NC that the place is swimming in it. All the local news channels are Fox-lite, and the rural dem parties are OPENLY infiltrated by conservative republicans (formerly called southern Democrats).

The central tabulators are all being hovered-over by republicans.

[Mira]

34. Not going to happen.

I feel it. I pray.
Should Kay Hagan (who is too conservative for my taste btw) win I will go back to church.

[azureblue]

37. in a word

no. Tillis has pissed off a lot of people, especially in the rural parts. All we are seeing is a lot noise made by well financed Koch puppets..

[loudsue]

39. I SO hope you guys are right.

I think I've just lost faith in our political system altogether.

[KoKo]

29. Polling Data for EV is outstanding.. Dems & Independents....

Even in the rain, wind and cold (unusual for NC this time of year) yesterday lines were long as we did PM Duty.

Reverend Barber's efforts to get so many involved with the issues and I'll give a cred to maybe a last minute GOTV by Bill Clinton coming on Friday to a rally in Raleigh. Plus Hillary did some fund raising for Kay in Charlotte.

This isn't going to be 2010's weak turnout given the latest voting numbers. And, EV has been cut back (by the Repugs) so people really are worked up to get to the smaller number of sites and more limited voting hours.

So far....looks good.

[PatSeg]

30. Thanks!

Made my day!

[Fred Sanders]

31. The Bacon Whisperer must not win, like Obama said, vote, and bring a friend. All it takes.

[azureblue]

36. Fun in Stokes County

the morons have been putting up Tillis signs all over the place up here. But right next to it, they put a "Fire Kay Hagan" sign. The way that sign is laid out, they put the word "fire" at the top,on it's own line, so I just pull up the "Fire--" sign, and place it right behind the Tillis sign so the word Fire looks like part of the the Tillis sign.

They are also putting up a sign that reads" Hagan = Obamacare" I passed by one that somebody spray painted the word "yes!" on it. I don't think the GOP morons believe that sign can be read two ways.........

[EX500rider]

38. Like this:?

[olegramps]

40. I don't have any friends who are Republicans.

I have several acquaintances who are Republicans and close relatives who are still fighting the civil war and sadly to say really racists. But as they say God gave me my relatives but I am free to chose my friends.

I don't see how any conscientious person could claim a Republican is their friend when the Republican Party wants to cut food assistance to children, the disabled and aged, repeal the ACA, privatize Social Security to enrich the Wall Street robber barons, repeal the Federal Wage Law, refuse to provide expanded Medicaid, cut unemployment insurance, what to get rid of the EPA, NASA, Department of Education, IRS, control women reproductive rights and provide massive tax breaks for the 1%. I further don't comprehend how these people claim to be Christians when they are determined not to help the poor and disadvantaged but rather starve them to death and refuse to provide them with adequate medical care so they can watch them suffer as they gloat over their superiority.

When these people have the ability to control government, ranging from local school board elections, city, state and federal government by gerrymandering and obstruction, the future of the Republic is much in question.

No, I don't have any Republican friends.

[FailureToCommunicate]

41. Well said. Deserves to be an OP?

(The take on Republicans that is, not so much the dis on one's friends)

[Hekate]

42. Hot diggity. Hugs to you and your friend.

I know a staunchly conservative couple who ended up voting against (yeah I know) McCain because of his picking Palin for his #2.

Whatever it takes, baby.

[Skittles]

43. honestly

while I am grateful when people finally see the light it absolutely sickens me how long it took them

[demwing]

44. Booyah!

your sincere and positive influence won out in the end

[Populist_Prole]

45. Just answered a robo-poll for NC senators on my land line phone

Chose: "Not sure"

Just kidding!

Chose Kay Hagan of course. It first asked whether you were going to vote for Kay Hagan....or Thom Tillis. Press 1 for Tillis, press 2 for Hagan.

I don't know if I'm reading into this but what was curious to me was how they juxtaposed the names and number key options....ostensibly to trip us Dems up?

They then asked for what sex I am and my age.

Anyway, the real poll is tuesday the 4th. I already voted though.

[blkmusclmachine]

46. As long as your friend's vote isn't switched by the secret, black box vote "counters."

[sheshe2]

47. Thank you Mira!

[hue]

48. Thanks for sharing hope!