After three years of listening to my viewpoints and attending a liberal arts college, my best friend has finally done it. Today he informed me that he has decided to change his voter registration to "D" from "R."
My friend is from conservative rural Western Pennsylvania. His family is completely Republican, and his politics, as I found out my first year here, were fairly far to the right. He was very conservative on social issues, and in the aftermath of the 2002 midterm elections, he was certainly beaming. But with each year, my friend's apprehension about the Republican Party grew.
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