Lane Demographic Update.

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The all important Lane Family Demographic Update has taken place, again, and just like every other damn poll out there it’s all over the map. Pop Lane is now planning to vote for Senator Kerry*, while Mom Lane has switched support away from the presumptive Democratic nominee and is now officially undecided, albeit wistful about Senator McCain. None of the Sister Lanes were available for polling, thus skewing the results of the poll further. As a result, the Presidential election has been officially redesignated as being Too Close To Call. Further polling will probably take place in September.

In other news, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is still polling abysmally among Lane Family members, with the highest negative numbers going towards the bishops and cardinals and the lowest towards the Pope, although the theory that he’s been dead for a decade was floated; there was a sharp split on the legacy of former President Reagan; the economy is being rated as generally improved, although the general strength of the dollar vis a vis the Euro is generally viewed negatively; Europe’s (particularly France’s) positive numbers remain essentially unchanged from their generally high levels; and my interest in attending the Republican National Convention was greeted with the usual weeps and wails and protestations of where my long-suffering parents went wrong, although it was cut short this time by the sudden appearance of the Miracle DVD.

OK, so it’s anecdotal data. At least you know I’m not making sh*t up.

Moe

*This may be a transitory effect of the Johnson murder, although trends indicate that the Pop Lane vote was drifting away from Bush. Further polling to follow.

10 thoughts on “Lane Demographic Update.”

  1. Here’s some grist for the family RC discussion:
    “Runaway priests hiding in plain sight”
    Aaron Brown on CNN on Friday had a segment on this scandal story (story scandal?):
    Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children are hiding abroad and working in church ministries, The Dallas Morning News has found.
    From Africa to Latin America to Europe to Asia, these priests have started new lives in unsuspecting communities, often with the help of church officials. They are leading parishes, teaching and continuing to work in settings that bring them into contact with children, despite church claims to the contrary.
    Dallasnews.com
    Since I’m the last male in my family-name line, demographics are much easier to determine. ABB.

  2. Got to confess, I’m lovin’ the Lane family, and extend the largest compliment I have (in the form of an invitation). Thanksgiving dinner, any year they wish. Tho’ Mom Lane is getting none of my mother-in-law’s mysterious yam dish if her wistfulness re McCain leads to a Republican vote. On second thought, maybe she should get the yams if she pulls the lever for Shrub. Consider her warned. But you know, also invited.

  3. My aunt makes this great yam stuff that uses marshmallows in it. Yams and marshmallows! It totally works!
    I, too, am lovin’ the Lane family updates.

  4. very nice to hear moe. although my friends are all ABB, my family is another matter. They are all Bush fanatics who won’t even debate anymore (they stayed in Texas and went the way of Texans). My brother won’t even speak to me anymore sadly. This from a once tight Irish clan. At least Mom headed Left with every passing year from ’68 on. But she passed away in ’99, Dad died when i was still in high school. I miss Mom, but I miss the family I used to have but it no longer exists. Now they are 2 right-wing zealots and 2 Conservative siblings and I don’t see them much. The polarization of America hit mine hard and now that Mom has gone I’m the odd man out and now that she isn’t there as matriarch the bonds that held us have snapped. Enjoy your family time everyone on this Father’s Day. It can be fleeting and you don’t even realize it until after it’s happened.

  5. a correction: when I mentioned the zealot and conservative things about my siblings, the problem is not their passion or political bent. It’s the Limbaugh school of ignorance they subcribe to swallowing anything whole and undigested. They don’t read newspapers or books and have no facts to back up anything, unlike many of the learned folk on this blog. sorry if i offended anyone, it wasn’t meant that way.

  6. Of likely voters in my family–
    Definite Kerry voters: husband, mother, father, 3 sisters, 2 sisters’ boyfriends, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law’s boyfriends, 4 husbands’ grandparents, 10 aunts and uncles, 7 cousins
    Definite Bush voters: 1 uncle
    Probable Bush voters: 1 sister’s boyfriend
    Probable Kerry voters: 1 grandparent, 1 stepmother

  7. My family are social conservatives and they split sharply down the middle on who votes for Bush and who for ABB.
    The Bush supporters are big on pro-live (and sadly) anti-gay issues. The ABB supporters are big on union support etc.

  8. My family is mostly people who are in one way or another involved in policy questions. They tend a bit left, less on ideological than on pragmatic grounds, and they are in general extremely well-informed and very public-spirited. Some bits of my extended family are not like this; they tend to be wealthy and a bit insular, and some are vaguely liberal while others are vaguely conservative. I do not know of a single one who is even considering voting for Bush, and this is not at all because none of them would ever vote Republican.

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