Freeper LS had a similar experience in his Ohio district. Very high turnout in deep red precincts. This seemed to indicate a win for our side. When they tallied the votes in the evening, the ones counting votes were dumbfounded: people voted for repubicans on the bottom half or the ticket, but chose the One for President. It seems the "Obamican" phenomenon was real.
Strange that these voters would vote republican at the local level and vote for Obama at the presidential level. It seems to flow out of a desire to punish the party and Bush. There's a lot of disillusionment about the war in Iraq, the big spending, and the scandals. The Bush admin has often given the impression of general ineptitude. Very poor leadership. Bush had his positives, but the last three years have been....crappy.
In any case, I hope these "republicans" get over their mania to punish the country on account of Bush. Yes, we got the judges we wanted and he was great after 9/11. The pro-life measures were good for the most part. It's sad that he was a such big spender and couldn't make a bettere case for himself.
They may very well have saved the GOP. The behavior of the McCain staff towards Palin, and the fact that these very same people would have made of the core of McCain's administration, show that a McCain presidency may very well have put an end to the Republican Party for good.
Yes it sucks that Obama is in the White House, but at least the GOP lives to fight another day.
the polls were tied until the weekend Lehmann went down. Eveything after that slid to obama with a little recovery the last week before the election, when at least some gigantic financial institution wasn't going bankrupt every day. With the oncoming recession, I'm afraid with BO blaming Bush over the next two years, and then possibly recovery about the time of the '10 elections, blaming Bush is going to be more of a feature than it would have been prior to mid -September.