My county is heavily Republican and what I would call working poor in a state that is moderately Republican. Here are the results from our primary, county wide.
Obama 613
Clinton 1,265
McCain 627
Huckabee 1,000
Paul 36
Romney 25
It's a virtual tie between Obama and McCain. The question remains if Republican voters will back McCain like they do Huckabee, once McCain inevitably wins the Rep nomination. Maybe they will just not show up? That's the wild card that we have no idea about yet because Huckabee refuses to drop out.
As you can see, Clinton is still polling very well in our county. This could be due to the "Why do we read forwarded e-mail?" post by silver-tongued devil, dramatically affecting Barack's influence among Democratic voters because of his falsified islamic extremist roots. That's supposed religion wrapped up in race and packaged as fear. An enigma anyone? I suggest the race/religion card as a plausible argument because the Hillary hatred among Republicans is intense enough that I can't imagine any of them voting for her in our open primary. So Republicans, if they voted Democrat, voted for Obama. That means if Obama has lost by such a wide margin it's because the county Democrat faithful are more afraid of Barack than anyone else. It's fascinating from a sociological standpoint to see as this race unfolds if there is more prejudice toward women candidates or African-American candidates. Because if you find yourself voting Democrat, which the momentum seems to be building as such, here you have to wrestle with one prejudice or the other. Who becomes the new exception to the rule and challenges long-held prejudices?
In the end though, I feel for our county that the political race will be not about the economy or the war or even sexism/racism, but about who best identifies with our working class. The better rhetoritician tends to win those battles, regardless of how much straight talk and 90s nostalgia gets thrown around.
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So why did you choose to Barak the vote? For me, there are two key reasons. First, as you mentioned, I think the Republicans are NOT for Hillary and will galvanize against the Democrats (us) if she is our candidate, while I believe Barak may well have some cross-over appeal as well as a message and platform Democrats can get behind (Hillary supporters will vote for Barak over McCain once they get to know him...and as STD mentioned in his post, determine that he is UCC and NOT a muslim extremist). Second, I think we need a message of hope. We have spent the last 7 years at least in such a dispairing, vengeful, unhappy spirit in this country and it is time for a new message of hope and unity. I am so impressed with the way that young people are inspired and turning out to vote because of what is going on in this election. They are seeing that "Change We Can Believe In". Barak is making a believer out of me.
On an completely random side note Shelly, the usage of three-letter abbreviations in your post (STD, UCC, and ?NOT?) makes you a shoe-in for a UMC junkie.
I guess to answer why I Baraked the vote would be because I have felt he would be a good president since I heard him give his first big speech on the floor at the 2004 DNC (now you're making me do it too).
I need a president who speaks more eloquently than our current "Gynecologists aren't free to practice their love with women all over this country."
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