Class of 2004: People who in 2004 said, "I've been a Bush supporter. I'm a Republican and a conservative, but I've had enough: I'm voting for Kerry."
There are sixteen people in this class.
I might be in a class of my own , my support of Bush was tepid at first , I thought his history as Govenor of Texas showed far too much middlefinding and accomadation to Democrats.
But after 2001 I had a better impression of him as a man with some spine.
He is still too eager to compromise with the left , but the left has seldom opened any honest dialog with him or atempted to reach the half way point where Bush couold work with them , so his conservative performance is somewhat better than is natural to him.