If you have liberal friends, then you know how deflated they feel about O's presidency, the sense of betrayal, the almost ... shame at this point. I watched the second debate with 3 of my most liberal neighbors in Maine. Great way to gauge the mood of the other side. Suddenly they are not so interested in politics.
The most important dynamic on a psychological level is that they no longer identify with him, even if they're voting for him. It is as if their professional football team had lost every game in the past 3 seasons ... nobody goes around wearing that team's shirt.
Part of the reason I know this election is going to be around a 7 point win for RR is that I know many liberals. There will be many no shows, and even secret defections inside the booth.
It will be an act of will for them to go vote - they are actually doing something they don't look forward to doing.They are only doing it to avoid the cognitive dissonance that would come with repudiating their bold and blind trust in hope and change. Mitt's surge is matched by an equal and opposite "WTF?" for Obama among liberals.
They are otherwise highly functional, successful and rational people, who become instant childish imbeciles as soon as politics is the subject.
I have just returned from a six week road trip through every state in the Southwest U.S., parts of California, and Texas coast.
I saw **one** Obama yard sign and exactly **two** Obama bumper stickers. The same is true for Romney signs and bumper stickers as well but that can be expected since vandalism is so common against Republicans.
However...There were blizzards of campaign signs along the roads for every imaginable local candidate, so there must be enthusiasm for politics in general. This enthusiasm is not evident, though, in the road signs for the presidential election.
Your Conservatism must be rock solid to fraternize with liberals. Thanks for taking one for the team.
I’m sure that they’re perfectly fine people, but there must be some insane disconnect between the way that they live their lives and the way that they vote to force us at the point of a government gun to live ours.
if they are 0bama supporters, they are not your friends, if you are who you present yourself as. as it’s been said for years: “with friends like that, who needs enemies”. i’d rather live as a hermit.
if they are 0bama supporters, they are not your friends, if you are who you present yourself as. as it’s been said for years: “with friends like that, who needs enemies”. i’d rather live as a hermit.