Well, Bill Gates is a big time dem and Warren Buffet was an advisor to John Kerry's 2004 campaign. That's the Ace and King of spades my friend. The poor have been voting for the democrats for 150 years and they are still poor. The richest members of congress are dems and it's been that way for a long time. Labor has supported the dems for a century and their influence is at it's lowest ebb in history. All politicians pander to their base and it really matter who they are or from which party. Our Esteemed Leader (Tony doesn't like "His Excellency") and the MEC are, in fact, politicians. Lastly, every one of us can vote for whomever we damn well please and it's nobody else's business who or why (and for that right, we can thank a lot of folks, starting with the men who showed up at Lexington and Concord)