[bitterohiogunclinger]

You're correct in respect to your friends and neighbors, but dead wrong in regards to politics. We are a nation founded on a core set of principles, spelled out and enumerated in the “Declaration of Independence”, “Constitution”, and “Bill of Rights”. While we have differing religious views, we are basically what would be center to center right politically.
Yet we are being told that the majority prefers the most radical leftist candidate for POTUS in history? The Democrat party gained control of the house and senate in 2006 by running the most conservative leaning candidates they could find against weak RINO opponents. When the election was over, they immediately put the most Left winged moonbats they had in charge of the house and senate.
The democrats laid the foundation for the financial crisis through their policies, obstructed reform that might have prevented the crisis, and then have the audacity to blame the problem on “George Bush's failed policies”.
The hardcore, leftists in the democrat party are calling the shots, ignoring the wishes of the people, and they are supported and abetted by their hardcore leftist pals in the MSM. They will have completed their political coup once they have Obama entrenched, and then can load the supreme court.
So, I guess I take exception to your feeling that it's only politics.

[GOPJ]

The democrats laid the foundation for the financial crisis through their policies, obstructed reform that might have prevented the crisis, and then have the audacity to blame the problem on “George Bush's failed policies”.

You're right on this.