What Convinced an Undecided or Democrat to Vote for McCain? (Vanity)

[Sneakyuser]

Was it a particular subject or conversation you had with a relative, friend, co-worker or neighbor? Or, articles that you emailed about Obama's views on his radical friends, abortion, the wars (and war on terror), the economy, explaining real capitalism vs. socialism/communism, or unfair media bias?

Did you share crucial Youtube links or have people sample Fox News, talk radio and sites like this one?

Were you able to at least clear up their unfounded beliefs about particular lies about Bush, McCain/Palin and Joe the Plumber?

[AU72]

A co-coworker said for 5 neighbors, it was the hidden birth certificate, Joe the Plumber, Share the Wealth, kicking conservative newspapers off the plane.

[DogBarkTree]

Im praying there haven’t been many undecideds for quite sometime. The Undecideds in the polls are people smart enough not to say who they’re voting for.

[counterpunch]

Electroshock therapy, Clozapine.

[April Lexington]

I received a call this morning from our “across the street” neighbor. He and his wife are liberals from Chicago. She even ran against, and lost to, our local state representative. He asked me where I got my lawn sign. I politely told him he could get one at the local McCain office and then asked him why he wanted one. He said they were supporting McCain. I suggested he take one of mine as the election was tomorrow. He thanked me and hung up. Two minutes later, I see him walk across the street and take one of my signs. I was expecting him to throw it into the trash or something. He stuck it into his lawn and went inside. I couldn't stand the suspense so I called him back and politely asked him why they were supporting McCain when they usually went Democrat. He said “Look, we are from Chicago and there is NO WAY we'd ever vote for those people again!”

I'm not sure what it all means. But, I think Obama has some problems!

[mmichaels1970]

22 year old neighbor was not going to vote. We had a discussion on the topic of socialism. She voted McCain. She explained that our talk about socialism scared her and made her realize it was critically important for her to vote against it.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Sarah Palin convinced me!!

[mnehring]

For several, I sent them links to some of Zo’s videos.
(example - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123685/posts )

For others, I focused on asking why trust either candidate. I used the metaphor of buying a used car. How do you know the used car salesman is telling you the truth (after all, politicians and used car salesman are not that much different in the honesty scale), the only thing you really can do is look at his history.. then focused on what Obama’s actual history is on taxes, etc (whatever the key issue is) versus his marketing weighed rhetoric. For example, Obama promising not to raise taxes on people making below 250k, yet his record shows voting on raising taxes for people making over only 40k. I keep going back to the used car salesman metaphor, how can you really trust anyone (don’t make it personal to Obama that puts up roadblocks, just say politicians in general, let them make the connection.)

One person who was insistent we need an African American in the White House, after a long discussion, I asked do they want the first or the right one, and had them describe what would happen if the wrong person was chosen and he screwed things up.

[randog]

About a year ago myself and my two business partners were driving home from a business meeting. We started discussing the upcoming election and I offered my 2 cents: "Mark my words," I said, "the next president will be a charismatic orator". When they asked why I would make such an assertion, I told them that people were exhausted after 8 years of having a president with zero personality and the speaking skills of a 5th grader. Don't get me wrong; I voted for GW twice and think he did an OK job, but most reasonable people will agree that he didn't major in debate in college.

With that said, I was pulled in by the Big-O during the early months of the campaign. The turning point for me was the unveiling of his associates: Bill the Terrorist, Louie Farrakhan, et.al. The election became all about never letting this guy get into office, so McCain it was.

With my story in mind, it doesn't surprise me that the bulk of the country has been swayed by the Big-O. How many people go to the effort to research their candidates, even scratch the surface? The MSM has done a bang-up job minimizing Big-O's faults (I think the MSM as a whole should get a Pulitzer for their herculean efforts to get him elected). So it's no wonder to me that the Big-O has been able to sway the masses, just like Ronaldus Magnus did....and Hitler.

[Designer]

"..it was the hidden birth certificate, Joe the Plumber, Share the Wealth, kicking conservative newspapers off the plane."

Then there's associating with known domestic terrorists and felons, his ties to the Chicago mob, having no executive experience, having no actual plan for most of his campaign, picking a bozo like Biden for his running mate, etc, etc, etc.

[A Strict Constructionist]

One of my favorite liberals, a woman that has been a knee jerk liberal for years is voting for McCain. Her response is that she has been listening to what Obama plans for the country and she is scared to death. She says she now knows which side her bread is buttered on. She still doesn’t like Palin? Feelings, nothing more than feelings, I guess. At least she is voting.

[dila813]

The stories of how Obama cares for his extended family has sent shock waves through my Wife’s Extended Family.

They think he is the devil now.