"I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. But I won't ever vote for another god-damn Republican

The two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups:

54 year-old white male, voted Kerry '04, Bush '00, Dole '96, hunter, NASCAR fan...hard for Obama said: "I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He's gonna be a bad president. But I won't ever vote for another god-damn Republican. I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President."

The next was a woman, late 50s, Democrat but strongly pro-life. Loved B. and H. Clinton, loved Bush in 2000. "Well, I don't know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I'm sick of paying for health insurance at work and that's why I'm supporting Barack."

I felt like I was taking crazy pills. I sat on the other side of the glass and realized...this really is the Apocalypse. The Seventh Seal is broken and its time for eight years of pure, delicious crazy....

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Voting_for_Obama_anyway.html

n.t.

I'll take it.

And they're afraid it will continue under McCain, so they're willing to take a chance that something might change. You know, if they're going to vote for Obama because they believe he is the lesser of two evils, I will gladly welcome them aboard. I'm confident that they will want to vote for Obama in 2012. I think their attitudes will change after they're out from under the fear they have from McBushCo.

date back to Reagan.

Oh well, as long as they're voting for Obama I guess it doesn't matter.

activities as an eight year old have been uncovered, will he be tried in an adult court? I'd like to think I don't need a sarcasm smiley but don't dare take a chance.:sarcasm::puke:

Mukkkain changed his tune on the ayers thing and has now made it about truthiness: Some people actually believe that Obama himself was in the weather underground group and don't care!!!!

You see this crazy shit regularly. Seriously, everyone should get out at least once and experience this. I doubt if it will ever happen again in our lifetime.

under Clinton ...

It was Bush Senior's policies finally working that led to the Clinton boom. And the recession under Poppy? Carter's fault. I shit you not. I worked with a lot of dittoheads (all dirt poor of course) back then, and that's what they told me.

no, wait ... it was "Whip Inflation Now" Ford ... no, NAFTA ... no, the banking deregulation ... no ...

What's McCain to do?

:rofl:

That's the problem.

Where do people get these ass backwards beliefs?

any vote for Obama.

People vote for how they feel the nation is going, and just fit candidates to whatever ideas they have about the nation or the parties.

Here are a few I've heard in this cycle. A mechanic says he's voting McCain because Bush is the only president who has ever given him a check. A salesman who worships Reagan but couldn't decide between Obama and Fred Thompson because both seemed like common men--he's a strong Obama guy now. An older business owner who is surprisingly wise and informed, but can't vote for a woman, so he's voting for Obama. I've got a lot of Democrat friends who are activists and even professional campaigners who hate Obama, thought about voting McCain, but ultimately have come back to Obama, though they don't like him.

Who cares? All the votes go in the same pot. In the end, Obama will win and have four years to convince people he deserves more. In 1980 Reagan won over a lot of conservative to moderate Democrats in the South who planned on voting for him for one term. Many never went back, and the whole South turned Republican, and the whole Democratic Party shifted left because they left.

Just win, baby.

Life was so much better after Reagan nationalized all industry, even cars and Wal-Mart.

Don;t even get me started on the crazy weather guy. How many people do you think think he actually did the weather on the local news?

they're low-information voters, and they really have no idea what's going on. Their mental model of the world is hash.