But what's really sad is that she didn't do her own research. She just took what her husband said as fact. That's the problem -- we have ill-informed people casting votes. I hope she'll learn to use her own head in the future.

I take it it's at Ft. Carson where your daughter is based? It is heavily Republican, so it is not surprising.

Obama will win here in Colorado, it'll be close though, maybe 52-54%.

off base in Monument. She said all the signs in her neighborhood are for Mitt, no surprise.

They do tend to vote that way, like i said surprised they lasted as dems for ten years. All of their military friends over all the bases they have lived in most all were republicans so maybe little by little they just gave in….

Now, the Republicans who are in the military (in my experience) are a lot more vocal than the Democratic ones.

Contact legal aid in your area.

Officer (Green Beret) in the 60' and 70's and he was always a Democratic - Always.


It's the folks that got commissioned under Bush that are die hard Republicans.

My father died last August and died believing Republicans should never be commander in chief - too many candy asses in his age group. .. So it's not all military. ;-_

In my immediate family veterans are exactly 50/50 R's to D's.


And to your fighting man, of the Green Berets! If you guys spent time at Bragg, we might have crossed paths.

I'm very sorry for your loss...

End of his career in Weisbaden, West Germany - and spent my formative years abroad. . And thank you for honoring his service - though he always said it was "my job god dammit!".

This is who my dad was:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/JustAnotherGen/29

And I kept his voice mails from election night 2008. And I listened to them again.

Yeah dad! Yeeeeeeaaaaah!

dangit!!!

Dad was with you last night!!

people need to think for themselves

the military is often too strong to resist, especially in the officer ranks. They are surrounded by it. My husband was continually subjected to Fox news BS and Obama bashing (and before that, Clinton bashing). It's very entrenched. I feel bad about your daughter.

In the end, they have to make their own mistakes, and learn from them.

Focus on the Family is based there.

Ironic, considering the economy of the entire city is dependent on Federal spending.

I'm always amazed that GOP voters simply do not have the facts, and base their votes on ignorance.

They were proposed specifically to be unpalatable to the GOP congress. They are, but they're still ready to drive off the cliff. Myself, I want those cuts to be 10x as large - the military is weaponized Keynesian economics, and defense contractors the largest welfare queens there are.

May your daughter never have to suffer the consequences of her myopic vote.

I'm just lucky. I don't know how I would react to that.

but doesn't pay attention to politics like we do and over the last few years won't talk it with me.

She is totally in love with her husband and would do anything for him. For the first few years she tried to stay as a dem while he changed and he just slowly worked on her.

I have another woman friend here where I live in my bookclub married to republican. She is a very dependent sort of person and if it wasn't for all of us outspoken strong women fighting back every month to all the things her husband tells her I think she might have changed too.

So sorry about you daughter!

in their life or by seeing Mitt Romney appearing like he really cares, and the litany of Obama's "failings." Your daughter is not the only one - there are tens of millions who have been taken in by the propaganda. It is very disheartening. I know, as my wife and her family are Republicans. I get very upset about it.

she doesn't follow it like we do, very busy with her two children and they are mentoring some of the younger people at the academy so she helps with that spending time with them.

Awful, awful place...I hope I never have to go there again.

I'm sorry. Your daughter got brainwashed. The U.S. military has a lot of experience in brainwashing, unfortunately.

a swirling fundie right wing black hole. Pretty much every academy grad ends up being a RW tool.

and voted for Obama.

I can't for the life of me understand why a woman would vote for anyone in the GOP. Even if they're anti abortion, people should never, ever vote away a right, even if they don't ever plan to exercise that right.

It's so hard to win any civil right, and so easy to have them taken away.

I mean, seriously?

It sucks that it may be hard on lifelong military families, but we do not need to spend so much on war. They will have to work domestic jobs to build this country, not kill people from other countries.

She, in essence, voted in support of advancing the Military-Industrial complex.

This is all, "just my view."

I know we talk a lot here about hoping the Republicans feel the consequences of their policies, but right now, I just hope with all my heart that she will never be in a situation where her vote will come to bite her in her posterior. Should, heaven forbid! Romney win tonight, I hope she will never have to realize how much of her rights as a woman the Republicans want to take from her. That she will not lose her husband from their reckless war policies. That she will not suffer when her husband retires, and won't get the medical care the VA should give him but won't be able to because the Republican will de-fund them. That she will never be in a situation where her children cannot go to college because the Republicans have removed Pell grants and made student loans impossible to service. And so many other ways the Republicans want to make the lives of ordinary men and women more difficult - that since she is your daughter, I hope she will never have to repent for casting that vote today.