I’m afraid that the map of Virginia is like the map of the US, 2008: most of the land area goes to the Republican, but the Democrat cleans up in the urban areas. Virginia has a lot of leftists in the close in NVA suburbs and arty places like Old Town Alexandria. It also has many poor and/or ignorant minorities who will vote for Obama.
Sometimes I’m working very late, so late that I have a chance to talk to the cleaning crew coming in at 11 p.m. I was watching the GOP convention online last week when a very nice Eastern European lady came in to dust the office. Very worthwhile person, extremely hard-working, smart, focused, organized, a Christian, has education from her home country. But her English is so awful that she couldn’t understand the issues. She was very proud that she was a new US citizen and this is the first election in which she’ll be able to vote.
“Who are you going to vote for?” I asked.
“I vote Obama. He good. Happy. Other man, no. Eh. Not help so good poor womans like me.”
As you see, it’s pretty difficult to have an in-depth conversation about sociopolitical issues with people in this situation. They’re not going to read and analyze, but they’re sure-God going to vote.
Anyone from Eastern Europe who’d lived under the thumb of communism would be voting for Romney.
Would you mind sharing this lady’s country of origin?