Describe any drop in Obama enthusiasm in your area.

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[StandAndDeliver1]

In Northern suburbs of Chicago:

2008: Obama intensity overflowing in every direction.

2012: Have NEVER heard enthusiasm expressed for Obama. What I have heard is low-key excuses for Obama or low-key sniping at Romney.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Hudson is nice. Western Reserve Academy, etc.. But it’s the quintessential “Yuppie village.”

[StandAndDeliver1]

What a great idea for a discussion thread. Citizen journalism at its best.

Maybe this nationwide study we just conducted will catch the attention of some pundit or campaign.

[StandAndDeliver1]

I don’t see the Blacks that I know as people who would get out and riot.

The overwhelming lack of enthusiasm for Obama reported in this thread makes riots seem unlikely.

[The Conservative Goddess]

It is very quite around here in my part of Virginia (Hampton Roads area).

In 2008, it seemed every other car or house had an Obama sign or sticker. It was awful. Now, I literally have not seen a single one, nada, zip.

There are a handful of Romney lawn signs in my neighborhood.

You can barely tell there is an election coming up at all, it’s a tad strange, much different than last election.

[StandAndDeliver1]

Most people are trying to avoid talking about this election at all.

This is a refrain in this thread. Why do you think this is?

I personally avoid talking about it with possible opponents because I don't want to damage relationships or my standing in an organization, or I just don't feel like working to be a salesman or a fighter.

[StandAndDeliver1]

Te he he, I see what you did there.

Saying "blank" instead of "black" was inadvertent. I have recently lived with a lot of people who are down and out, black and white, and there is a lot of substance to most all of those people.

Their politics are usually ignorant, but they have a lot of talent, grit, and concern for God and others. Example: I have a wino friend who prays multiple times everyday even when he's drunk. He pays more attention to God than I do.

[tomkat]

This is a cut/paste from another similar thread, but it seems apropos here:

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My 80yo mother, a lifelong Dhimm, loved dearly aside from her erstwhile political cluelessness, is voting for R/R this time !

And there will be millions more like her .. people old enough to remember what this Nation used to be, and despise the direction it's been hijacked toward under this muslim marxist mulatto manchurian maggøt.

They loathe our national decency being perverted by the rampant destruction of the rags / queers / green slime / thugs / lunatic judiciary / on and on and on.

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[JMJJR]

I live in Boulder,CO, right downtown, and have for 20+ years (I’m inside the wire ;)

What election ? /s

There’s no enthusiasm, and no yard signs. I’ve seen a handful of O bumper stickers, nobodies talking about the election, IMHO it’s because they’re voting for R^2 or not voting at all for Pres, and too proud or embarrassed to admit it.

There are still the 0 die-hards, they hoarded all the signs and put them in their yard. I had a ‘progressive’ (his words) acquaintance tell me how amazed he was at the first debate, R was nothing like he’d been led to believe (my comment, “no bloody baby parts hanging from his mouth eh?”).

No Romney signs anywhere around here, but that’s to be expected. I have a sign up for the opponent of Jared Polis, it’s been pulled up twice, but not destroyed (I’ve had my signs destroyed and my vehicles vandalized before, remember I live in the tolerant enclave called Boulder).

There are non-stop pro-0 radio commercials, followed by Crossroads GPS adds (really well done)

Early voting was brisk, most there when I was (lunch), appeared to be like me, working folks on their lunch hour.

[BRL]

I am in pretty nice suburb in north Columbus. 2008 there were about 5 Obama signs to 3 McCain signs. Now it is reversed. Not tons of signs but solidly for R/R. I see quite a few democrat sign farms that are missing the Obama sign. I see very few stickers either way. One car in my lot at work had Obama sticker in 08. Lady removed it about a year ago.

Last week I happened to drive to Boston and throughout lots of MA and into South central NH: Boston had Warren signs everywhere. The only Brown sign I saw was on a fire escape three stories up that nobody could get to it to rip down. Saw lots of Obama stickers throughout Ma, but outside of Boston in the north central part of MA and into NH there are lots of R/R signs. Prob 4 or 5 to 1. In Boston suburbs prob just a little more favorable to Obama / Warren.

[Arrowhead1952]

You can barely tell there is an election coming up at all, it’s a tad strange, much different than last election

Same here in central Texas. Very few 0 bummer bumper stickers and signs. There are R/R signs in yards that had 0 signs 4 years ago.

[jeffc]

Just returned from early voting at the library in the little town of Dunnellon, FL. There was a line of about 20 or so people, but it moved quickly. Everyone in line was friendly and relaxed - no discussion of anything political, just family and work stuff. Turnout seems the same as last year, but this is a very Republican area.