I was visiting my brother’s family in Seattle, a few weeks before the 2008 election. I was playing catch with my nephews, and their pals; one of them asked “you’re voting for Obama, right?”.”No, I don’t think so”, I replied. The older nephew said “My uncle and my grandmother are staunch Republicans”. The kids all stopped dead in their tracks, and looked at me like I was an escaped zoo animal ;)
That would have been a perfect time to educate them on WHY you weren’t voting for him.
That’s pretty funny. I lived there for 45 years and two weeks before the 2008 election I bought my small farm in central KY, partly as a “bug out” location.
And I thought McCain would win.*
*My point is that, as bad as I thought it could get under Obama, I thought it would get pretty bad under McCain as well.