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dixiegirl7: I think you're very wrong on all your points, but I'd like to address your last point, in particular. The GOP's insulting commentary at the RNC regarding "community organizers" was a very stupid move on their part. They insulted the very people who get out the vote--person by person, house by house. And those people are angry, and they have wasted no time "organizing" in response to those insults. And they will be getting out the vote. Oh yeah.
My explanation has more to do with why people still vote Republican, because that is what the poster asked about. Bush is not unpopular with most people that voted for him in the past. The media wants people to think that but it is not true. Therefore, those that voted for Bush will more than likely still vote for McCain and those that voted for Gore or Kerry will vote for Obama with a few exceptions. My explanation has nothing to do with community organizers which you are trying to take out of context. It is a fact that young, first time voters never turn out in the numbers they are predicted.
I think that many people vote for their "social" issues - like they would vote for McCain if they're against abortion, or against gay rights, things like that.
But, in doing so, they are voting against their own economic interests, if they are middle or lower class wage-earners.
I try to vote for my economic issues, and social issues second.
Because the Dems can't scrape together good candidates...
2000 - Al Gore - His head was in the clouds but his feet lost touch with the ground
2004 - John Kerry - Douche Bag w/ foot always in mouth
2008 - Barak Obama - Far left wing - partisan - divisive
Most Americans are moderate or just right of center. The Democrat party has been hijacked by extreme special interest groups ie gays, hollywood, unions, actvists...
Bingo! There was never a president as beatable as George Bush and look who the Dems put up against him. Kerry? What a joke.
The GOP made a mistake 8 years ago when they got behind Bush vs. McCain for the nomination. If the Dems hadn't screwed up their part so badly, they'd be back in the White House by now.
Christian fundamentalists (at least the ones that vote Republican) are not nearly as extreme as many of the special interests that are seen on the left. The Democratic party has too many over represented constituencies ie gays, NAACP, AFL-CIO, evironmentalists/hippies. Whether the Dems like it or not, they are forced to dance to the drum beat of their main source of money - the extreme left. There are like 67 million evangelicals in the U.S. You can't call a fifth of America 'extreme'.
Palin's husband is a proud Union husband. What say you to that?
Because they are afraid of change. I drove past several gas station this evening, many had huge lines because people who cannot think for themselves, or outside of the box, were panic stricken that gas was going to "dry up". Are you kidding? I decided to "live on the edge" and drive around on my barely quarter tank of gasoline. Do people really think these big oil companies are out of oil? What a pathetic site. Lines of people in "well-to-do" type vehicles filling up like good little sheep because they really think we're giong to fun out of "gas". I bet 90% of the people I saw in those lines as I drove by are Republican voters. So sad. Manipulated, and scared. I do believe there will be gas available tomorrow. And the next day, and the next. I won't be a mouse in a maze. Those are the people voting for "more of the same". Glad I'm not one.
If Bush did to Osama what he has done for America, Osama would be too broke to be a threat to a den of cub scouts.
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