My mom, who has not voted since 1992, asked me if I was registered to vote.

[joshcryer]

And said she was registering to vote tomorrow. For Hillary Clinton.

You have to understand how amazing this is to me. This is a woman who loathes liberals, is a die hard conservative, anti-choice, anti-gay (even with a gay son), anti-Muslims, whole nine yards.

"Are you registered to vote?"

"Um... yeah. I voted for Obama. Twice."

"I'm getting registered tomorrow to vote for Hillary! She really knocked it out of the ballpark!"

JAW TO THE FLOOR.

[fleabiscuit]

1. LOL, nice. K&R

[joshcryer]

2. You have no idea. She got banned from Yahoo! comments...

...for writing very disparaging remarks about Michelle Obama. This is utterly shocking to me.

[yardwork]

33. Banned from Yahoo is hard to do. Impressive.

[Beacool]

3. Great!!!

I hope that there are a lot more like your mother. I have never been as scared of a candidate as I am of Trump. He would be disastrous for the country.

[Stallion]

4. The Hillary/Chelsea Moment Touched Her

...and she wanted to share it with you

powerful

[joshcryer]

5. She was ecstatic.

I am still reeling from it.

[pkdu]

6. Awesome...may there be hundreds of thousands like her. nt

[Wounded Bear]

16. More like millions.... nt

[ffr]

7. THIS COULD BE BIG!

People aligning for their best interests, instead of against. Imagine how many millions of people that represents. WOW!

It could mean the beginning of the withdrawal for Fox Entertainment and RW talking heads. Without an audience to eat up what they're dishing out, advertisers will move on. And best of all, our country can finally move forward.

Just need to sweep the republicans out of congress too. Her agenda will suffer without a crushing republican defeat...something I'll be working very hard to insure.

[joshcryer]

8. I swear, it's going to be a blowout.

People are finally seeing that Clinton is another human being, not some evil caricature that the media has portrayed her as for decades.

[Hekate]

40. From your lips to God's ears

Amazing about your mother, too!

[joshcryer]

9. Just an update: she registered online. Was very skeptical about putting in her SSN*.

But I was able to convince her that it was no big deal and they needed it for verification purposes.

My mind is so blown that I really can't comprehend this. This is a woman who hates the voting process. I only hope I can get her to vote down ticket dem, but even if she doesn't, and only votes for Clinton, it's a major win.

*only wanted her last four digits of the SSN.

[pnwmom]

25. Now maybe you can help her register as a permanent absentee voter?

[Hortensis]

10. Amazing. I don't talk politics with people like

you describe any more, knowing they won't/can't change. Well, there are a good many around here, and maybe I should dip my toes in. Congratulations to you and your mom for the removal, or shrinking, of an unfortunate barrier. That's nice.

[joshcryer]

11. I try not to talk politics to my mom because I know she'd disagree across the board.

Bur this was astonishing to me. And she brought it up. Doubly impressed.

[Hortensis]

12. I hadn't thought much of the giant schism

of politics cutting across families and what it could do to them, but of course. You guys obviously kept it nicely together.

[oberliner]

13. What does a die-hard conservative who loathes liberals, gays, & Muslims like about Hillary Clinton?

That makes no sense.

[maxsolomon]

15. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Voting, as Scott Adams is reminding us on his Blog that predicts Trump will win, is largely an irrational process.

[oberliner]

17. Obviously the more people who vote for Hillary, the better

I just am trying to understand how this makes sense from this person's perspective.

[maxsolomon]

18. I do that all the time, to little avail.

Right-wing "thinking" is baffling.

My father still insists (to my sister, 2 weeks ago) that Obama is a Muslim. I cannot fathom it.

[Bluenorthwest]

20. Scott Adams of Dilbert was an independent candidate for President in 2012, before he

endorsed Mitt. His advice should be taken as the advice of a Republican.

[maxsolomon]

21. He's a tricky one

He doesn't vote (or that's what he says), he says he endorses Clinton this time ("for his personal safety", because he lives in LA), he thinks Trump will win.

I think he puts too much stock in his "Persuasion Techniques". Trump uses them as part of his selling, but the sale (the General) is too drawn-out for the marks not to get wise to the con.

Well, that's what I'm telling myself this weekend...

[NCTraveler]

19. A good portion of our convention was directed...

At making conservatives look deep within themselves. Trump is speaking truthfully about what their party has been promoting for a long time. Our convention was a gut check for them. Not all of them of course. Additionally, in this instance, gay marriage has not destroyed the fabric of society. My heart goes out to the op and this parent might have some end of life reconciling to do. There is no way to know the true underlying dynamics at play here. This might be a step toward repentance and acceptance. That would be wonderful and might manifest itself in a strange way.

[joshcryer]

22. I think it was Chelsea's and Clinton's speeches in tandem.

She's also said glowing things about Kahn since (and of course he's getting great support).

[oberliner]

23. Wow

Hopefully this will cause her to reevaluate some of her other positions as well.

[pnwmom]

26. That 4th convention day, especially, was a masterpiece.

The emotion built all day long, up to the impassioned speeches of Mr. Kahn and General Allen -- and then, at the end, there was sweet Chelsea introducing her beloved mother. And there was Hillary, a calm, strong, capable, and soothing mother, daughter, grandmother.

I bet that's what josh's mother responded to.

[oberliner]

28. Not for die-hard conservatives who loathe liberals, gays, and Muslims

Most of them thought it was crap.

[pnwmom]

29. They might loathe them theoretically -- but not necessarily when facing them in person.

The Kahn's and all the other "regular" people in the convention helped make gays, Muslims, and other liberals real to the viewers.

And die-hard conservatives have no reason to like Trump. Kasich and others despise him. So Trump has softened some of them up to take another look at Hillary.

[oberliner]

30. Hopefully you are right

Here's to a big victory for Hillary in November!

[pnwmom]

32. I'm afraid it will be a nail biter but I'm so glad that Dems seem to be joining together --

realizing who the real enemy is -- the great Narcissist.

[oberliner]

34. Yes, that has been very encouraging

The key, as far as I am concerned, is getting out the vote. Big turnout - especially from African-American and Latino voters.

[maxsolomon]

14. Goes to show how smartly the Convention was framed

From top to bottom, it was about women. Grandmothers, Mothers, Daughters, Granddaughters.

Women's votes are the core of progress.

[oberliner]

35. Do you think that turned off any men?

I mean those "white working class men" that are supposedly important in the Rust Belt states.

[maxsolomon]

37. probably but i think they were already lost

dems have been slaughtered in that demo for decades now. they know that.

of course, all those WWCM have moms, wives, daughters...

[oberliner]

38. Fair point

I will say that I had a conversation with a white male who is in the category of people who dislike both Hillary and Trump, and he was turned off by it a little bit. But we might not actually need those voters if we get enough of a turnout with the demographics in which we are strongest.

[pnwmom]

24. Whoa! I bet you helped fill the bases, joshcryer. And then Hillary knocked the ball out of the park.

Hopefully this is happening in many more families.

[underpants]

27. Where if I might ask?

Great news.

[Ilsa]

31. I'm taking a 75 year old to get registered later this week after she updates

Her DL with her new address. She has never voted before. She was always afraid she'd be called for jury duty. Now you can be called whether you are registered to vote or not, and she's exempted.

Funny story, she thinks she voted in 2004. She had registered then, and wanted to vote for w. After registering, she received a big colorful flyer from the RNC with a push poll survey on various issues and then a portion of the ballot. She told me it was a mail-in ballot and Barbara Bush had a short letter in it. After she marked it, her husband said he'd put it in the mail. I tried to explain to her that it wasn't a ballot, but she insisted it was. Oh well, at least that was one less vote for Dumbya.

Good on your mom! Make sure she casts a real ballot!

[sarae]

36. I love hearing stories like this – thanks for sharing. :)

My cousin has never voted either. He's always been of the opinion that his vote "doesn't really count", even though we've tried to argue with him. After talking to my mom yesterday, I found out that he'll be voting in November because he's really worried about Trump being elected.

[ncgrits]

39. This choked me up! nt

[redstateblues]

41. Congrats!!

[cally]

42. Congrats. My Mom is voting has decided to vote for her first Democratic Presidential Candidate

--Hillary Clinton. She actually dislikes her and was going to just not vote for President this time but now she is terrified of Trump. She is voting for Clinton!

[blueseas]

43. Great to hear!

Hello my friend

[TuxedoKat]

44. Wow, maybe there's hope for my mom

She used to be a fairly liberal Democrat but in recent years has turned rightward from listening to the likes of Fox News, Michael Savage and others of that ilk. Having talked politics with her since the conventions though and am curious to see what she thought.