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The main reason for a slight shift in corporate support has to do with one word: certainty. Businessmen hate uncertainty; they pay billions of dollars to predict the future and reduce risk.
After 9/11, terror threw a big cog into the wheel of certainty, and certainty is further "threatened" by the pro-active nature of Bush's foreign policy. I personally agree with the President and his administration that huge changes needed to be made in the way America acts in its foreign policy and military action. However, since we haven't handled ourselves this way before, no one knows what to expect next.
Support for Kerry comes from the correct observations that the US will return to the old way - the "9/10" way - of doing things if he is elected. We'll debate endlessly at the UN, and we'll tailor our operations overseas to the point where they're completely benign, to the point where every ally has had every possible say in how we conduct ourselves. Just look at who he's planned to put on his foreign policy team. A mix of ex-Carter and Clinton era functionaries.
This may be ineffective foreign policy in the new 9/11 era, but it brings a lot of certainty for businessmen who need to make decisions on an international level.
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FLUSHED THE JOHNS!
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