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They figure if they completely burn their bridges, maybe we'll vote differently next time. Brilliant plan, guys.
I live in Wisconsin (a blue state) and if one looks at the counties in the state where the majority voted for Kerry it was Milwaukee County and the Peoples Republic of Madison (our capitol).
I cannot even begin to tell you how liberal Madison is and in Milwaukee the African-Americans are now in the majority and the rest on the south side of Milwaukee County are holdovers that had fathers, grandfathers, etc., that were strong union members and have been voting Democrat for 50 years. Some of these people have seen the light of day--however, not nearly enough.
I was a poll worker in Milwaukee on Nov. 2nd and was assigned to the northwest side of City of Milwaukee and let me relate some of my experiences to you.
1)A man came in with a young boy that he said was his son and was born in Texas. This guy said his "son" was 19 years old. However, if this kid was 19, he has some real growth and hormonal problems. I swear he looked no older than 11. Well, his "father" raised his right hand and swore this was his son and he was in fact 19 yrs. and the kid was allowed to vote. A ballot was given to him and "Dad" took him into the voting booth because anyone could see he didn't have a clue as to what he was doing and "Daddy" assisted him.
There is a nursing home facility across the street from this voting place and in the afternoon a woman came in with five obviously mentally "challenged" people and stated these people wanted to vote. Here in WI, no matter what your state of mind is, you are allowed to vote. I assume it's true in the rest of the country. Also, in WI unregistered voters can register at the polls and are asked to fill out a registration card and identify themselves. The woman in charge filled out the cards for these poor souls and each voter must sign the card stating all the above statements are correct. You should have seen some of these signatures. I could a 2-year-old child a crayon and ask them to sign their name and it would be much better than these signatures. One man kept saying to anyone who would listen "I'm voting for Kerry, he's a great man."
He easily could have been programmed to say he was voting for Hitler as he was a "great man." All of these poor souls were like a group of kindergarten children on an outing and at one point I was standing at the machine where the ballots were pushed into and they all said with a big smile they were voting for Kerry. It was really pathetic how they were used.
To continue. In Wisconsin as I said before if a person is not registered he or she can show up at the voting place that his assigned to the neighborhood in which they live and fill out a Voter Registration card and with the proper identification vote that very day. Well, when a registration card was put before with some real hard questions such as "name", "address", "date of birth". They sat and looked at these cards as if they were written in Chinese. The problem was most of these people could not read. So, the poll workers had to point out where it said to put your name, next line was address and next line was DOB, and the number of the driver's license or WI ID card number or if not that at least a pay stub and utility bill.
Once this difficult task was completed, they were directed to a voting booth and we quickly found out most of them hadn't the foggiest idea of what they were doing. I believe I was the only one of the poll workers who had voted for Bush as more than one of my fellow poll workers were only to happy to make sure these people voted correctly.
I can tell you much more of what happened in Milwaukee County, but this posting is getting too long.
I suppose Democrats would say those who voted for W. are "intolerant". But what's been so interesting after this election is watching so many democrats meltdown and show their true colors. They think they can slander and ridicule everyone who voted for Bush. I don't remember seeing so much open bigotry. I guess this is suppose to make us vote for democrats in the future?
My counsel would be to do a little introspection and realize that theirs antics are performing a slow burn on the gneral population, that the insults, while not commented on, are being remembered, and that these could slowly turn into an 'us or them' scenario.
excellent advice, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to get it.