I'm sorry folks, but if this is your criteria for President, you are a fool:
"'I've got 50-some guns, and I wasn't crazy about Obama's talk about small towns,' said Sam Vetter, 64, a farmer and lifelong Democrat who regrets voting for Bush in 2000.' 'Besides,' he added, 'Obama just doesn't sound right for an American president'."
Well, these are the same folk who keep putting Robert Byrd back, so there you go...
Appropriately Enough (I resisted the awesome temptation. Take That, Norman!!!), Radio Free Newport has an excellent post concerning all those hard working white people. Compelling stuff.
Update: Shocker...People will vote against their interests-even if its for another Democrat, due to some calculus that hithero unheard of outside of Republican Kansas.
But consider this: Since 1972, West Virginia has only went Democratic in 4 elections: 1976, 1980, 1992, and 1996. West Virginia voted for four times for Southern Governors-Jimmy Carter in 1976 and in 1980, and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, electing Carter to one term (take that, Hillary) and Bill Clinton to two. The rest of the elections; 1972, 1984, 2000 and 2004, the went hard to the right, voting for uber republicans Nixon, Reagan, and Bush I and II.
Okay, so West Virginia will support Democratic Southern Governors, or they go right wing. Yet Hillary Clinton is a Northern Senator...
Hmmm....
I dunno...I'm just baffled as to why people vote the way they do, that's all...
We've had Chester, Milliard, Quincy, and Rutherford, but I'd imagine this guy ain't so hot with history.
ReplyDelete"My worry is there's just too many people in this country who aren't ready to elect a black president," said Charles L. Silliman...
ReplyDeleteSir, you are a silly, silly man.
I was thinking about all this goofiness, and especially Hardy County's flip from staunchly Democratic to Bush-loving, and it occurred to me that for a generation it probably hasn't made a damn bit of difference on the ground in a backwater like Hardy Cty whether there was a Dem or a Republican in the Whitehouse. Hope? Nobody in Hardy County has taken that abstraction seriously since Johnson moved back to the ranch.