Posted on 06/17/2008 9:24:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Want to do a kind of informal poll: Does anyone here know anyone, other than a very far-lefty or an African American that is voting for the "Messiah" Obama? How can the national and state polls show Barack Obama leading when NONE of us knows anyone besides Latte Liberals, AAs and kids that are planning on voting for the guy? Hillary's supporters are going to McCain, many conservatives will "hold their nose" and pull the lever, and Appalachia and the South sure aren't Obama country. So who's answering the questions in these polls, or are they being made up out of whole cloth?
Of course, if you went by polls, "presidents" Gore and Kerry would be building their presidential libraries right about now.
Define your terms; is a “no-damn-way-I’m-voting-for-McCain” considered a vote for Obama? If so, I know LOTS of people who fit that category.
Yes, and she is a bit dippy...and something of a snob.
How many are voting for McQueeg?
“How could he win? Nobody I know voted for him.”
I see a few idiots with Obama ‘08 stickers on their cars. I want to run them off the road but I know that I probably shouldn’t so I don’t.
I do feel like putting a “No, no, no, God DXXX America!” bumper sticker right next to it.
The people I know who will vote for Obama would vote for anyone with a D behind his/her name.
I DO have one old friend, a Goldwater girl turned leftie, who actually likes Obama but is concerned about his national security deficits. Not sure yet how she will vote. National security is very important to her despite her leftward tilt.
Yes, the guy on the other side of the office (you know the one that instantly kills all private conversation just by walking over)
He also has an Al Franken sticker on his car so whatever
Actually I don’t know any. I suppose my circle of friends is small. I can guess but I haven’t seen or heard anyone who is for him.
Two of my dear old Dad’s best friends. Decorated Vietnam vets, both, are absolutely infatuated with Obama and are volunteering for his campaign.
I ask them how they can link arms and sing kumbayah with the same sort of (in some instances the VERY same) people who called them “baby killer” and threw dogsh*t at them getting off the freedom bird but no, the logical disconnect is total.
Meaningless slogans and gauzy promises really can sway people who should know better.
-— Define your terms; is a “no-damn-way-I’m-voting-for-McCain” considered a vote for Obama? If so, I know LOTS of people who fit that category. -—
That’s fine if that’s their decision. If Hussien Obama gets elected, I’d really rather not hear their opinions if things turn as disasterous as I believe they will be.
If a person cannot figure out “a lesser of two evils,” then they probably shouldn’t be voting anyway.
I am the only male in the office where I work. Not one of the females say they are going to vote for him. Even the Democrats. What I find interesting is that EVERY ONE of them say the same thing. They are afraid of him. I think that when it comes down to it, about the only ones interested in Obama are the Kollege Kiddie Krusaders who do not work or pay taxes.
I know numerous Obama supporters. Most have no reason for doing so besides “Hope” and “Change”.
McCain's problem is he is too liberal for conservatives and too conservative for liberals.
No blue collars for Obama though....not even blue collar dems
I work with three people who are extremely liberal, they supported Hillary, but they are leaning now towards voting for McCain.
I haven’t met one yet....:o)
Here’s a whole website full of them, and there’s dozens more: http://www.hcsfjm.com
I know two in the ‘voting against John McCain’ category.
EXACTLY. We have an idiot niece (21) who does NOT work, goes to college, and we think her Grandfather pays for her Condo while she's at school.....clueless in other words.
Search Obama with the name of a College and you'll get lots of hits....plus look on Facebook, MySpace, etc......all the Obamanists are there....
They want to feel virtuous, and are willing to do absolutely anything, swallow any lie, deny any truth, make any sacrifice for the warm feeling they get when their betters in the media tell them they're virtuous. And absolutely nothing makes them feel more virtuous than sneering derision directed toward mere Americans in preference to a Higher World Truth, whether it be an illusory world peace, world economic "justice", world environmental passions, world condemnation of Americans for our sins and world absolution for the enlightened. And God help us, they'll vote for Obama in droves.
Give me a count, if you can, of how many of those you know. I’ll consider it my job to go out and recruit an equal number of new voters to counter those idiots.
It's really depressing for me to think about, so I try not to mention it when I speak with either of them.
On the plus side, Dad is more Conservative than I am.
If you can neutralize 2 Obama votes, then that should do it from my side.
Of course, Dad and I will pull the lever for McCain, but I think that he's going to win Alabama.
I do. Bunch of otherwise smart entrepenuers who have drank the Obama Koolaid in the SF Bay area of CA. Frankly, I’ve lost a lot of respect for them because of their BDS and libdolt stances over the past few years.
I live in California. There will be plenty voting for Obama out here.
My brother-in-law and his wife will vote for Obama also. He is a college professor and forest-ecology researcher who is brilliant in his field, but flaky enough to say things that come across as astoundingly stupid. His wife is an artist. She will say she needs five minutes to get ready to go somewhere, and she will disappear into the bathroom for an hour or more, and I am not exaggerating. I was astonished the first time she did it.
They have neither served their country in the military nor have they truly held the reigns of responsibility (IE... Paying taxes, working 40+ hours a week, providing for a family, etc.)
I believe it was Plato who proposed democracy with certain requirements of each person before he/she could vote.
There was a time in American history where a person had to prove they owned property before he/she was allowed to vote.
Now we have illegal aliens, pot heads, welfare people and kollege kidz determining the future of our Republic at the ballot box.
Well, I disagree with that judgment.
There are basically three ways to choose whom to vote for in a 2-party election:
Voting for the "less of two evils" is still voting for evil. There are some of us who find that sufficiently distasteful that we won't be conned into doing so simply because one evil is slightly worse than the other.
Geez Louise... I live near Ithaca, NY, the "City of Evil".
Damn near everybody in town and the colleges is voting for the Democrat. Out here in the woods, it's more sane, but less populated.
Actually, there are a few Ithacans I know who won't vote for Obama. That's because he is too right-wing for them...
No, I'm NOT kidding.
My daughter lives in Philly and said a lot of people there say they will vote for Hussein Obama just because he is black.
No, I'm NOT kidding."
Oh yes, the Cynthia McKinney Green Party vote.
How did I just -know- you'd be here with that graphic?
[Hint: it's even more boring now than it was last week, and the week before...]
Say, ya figure out anything POSITIVE about McCain yet, other than he's not Obama?
My BOSS, she is just”swooning” over Antichrist Obama. “he is going to bring the country together”. We need a change”. “he is just so HONEST”. (LOL..I CANNOT think of ONE honest thing he has said yet!!) And yes..she IS for gay “marriage”.(but NOT for partial birth abortion). BUT...she did NOT know about some of the “nice things” that homo “rights” will bring, such as the “bathroom and locker room” issues, and the “homosex education” to elementary students. I told her..but she did NOT believe me...
BUT...I am still “working on her”. We have somewhat of a friendship , and she respects my opinion, and enjoys political discussions with me. In FACT..she likes to talk to nearly EVERYONE about politics..(NOT me, anymore at least.)
However..she has 4 daughters and ALL of them are liberals, and most likely a lost cause. BUT..they were the LAST election too—as was SHE.
Now that you mention it, I really don’t know anyone other than Black Americans who are voting for Obama. But then, I live in Texas.
How are things out there in California?
I'll tell ya something.... those people are more scary than I am by a fair stretch, and I'm the one who lives out in the woods with a pickup truck and a gun.
Honest to God, some of those people would happily and knowingly vote for a Communist.
It pisses me off no end that their vote counts as much as mine.
It pisses me off even more that there isn't a candidate in either major party who is worthy of my vote, so I am forced by my conscience to vote for someone worthy, but who (barring a miracle) can't win.
And it pisses me off the MOST that living in New York State, the awful drag-weight of NY City is such that my state will go for the Democrat no matter what I do. My vote is moot already.
The one upside is that lets me vote my conscience without even a smidgeon of guilt.
Yes, Democrats here are all giddy waiting to vote for Obama. Ed Schultz and Joel Heitkamp, two radio hosts are all for him and so are many of the callers into the program. Mostly white male callers.
I haven’t run across anyone who says definitely they are voting for McCain. I expect he will carry this state, ND, but who knows?
I live in a deep blue county in what used to be very red state. “Minorities” are the majority here.
''You know what they call a candidate who ends up depending on the 'youth vote'? A loser.''
my sister-in-law (husband’s sister) loves Obama... she is the only one i know... she lives near Santa Cruz, CA... my side of the family—parents, siblings, nephews all wanted Hillary... they hate Obama and refuse to vote for him... some say they will vote for McCain... others say they are not voting at all... as far as i know, my family has never hated a Dem Pres nominee... they live in the South Bay (CA)... a couple of them live in Salem, OR...
Obey the Constitution AND tell the Supreme Court (and other courts) to go to hell.
Not kidding, folks, that's who I'm writing in this year. Piss on McQueeg, that corrupt anti-American SOB preening for the greenweenies. And defecate on Osamabama, that lying faux-Christian Marxist b&st&rd and empty-suit puppet.
Our family doesn’t associate with that element.
I’m in northern California, and almost every person I know is voting for Obama. Jeesh. I know exactly two Republicans in this area besides myself. NoCal is solidly in the tank for Obama.
Oregon Coast
Obama bumperstickers and yard signs everywhere.
I would say in my private polling it would be Obama 3 out of 5.
Truth. People see Obama as a shaking up of the old system, which the mainstream media tells them is bad. I know the housing debacle is still upon us and Iraq isn’t really defined yet, but...here are the Obama supporters...
1. High school seniors and college kids, like mullets in the 1980’s, you have to be “with it” to have friends and a sex life, so “change” is good, based on their recent and current Communist indoctrination by our schools and colleges.
2. One-issue Liberals - the Gay marriage crowd, the abortion-on-demand seekers, environmental global warming Algore gangsters, ERA/Title IX/Women’s rights (see gays) crewcut people and the Code Pink Anti-War peaceniks
3. Hamas, Hizbollah, PLO, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, The Taliban and other partakers in the religion of peace.
4. The welfare recipients who will avoid more (any) taxation, have more quotas built into the workplace and colleges for them...more free services and “change” meaning taxpayer change in their pockets from the “rich” who keep them in poverty as clearly, they are not responsible for themselves. He will fix their problems for one small vote.
I hold my nose and vote McCain.
Northern California too...these people WANT to tax themselves to death for the UN...but appeasement is what Haight Street and Neville Chamberlain are, not facing reality that you need to fight for your way of life, not just buy a dime bag and go to concerts.
My area is solid Dem...but a few of us are privately conservative and push for our wives to at least vote for McCain. I usually use the Obama abortion view.
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