I Talked To Two More Republicans Who Are Voting For Obama Today...

[JimGinPA]

I visited a couple who own a kennel and dog grooming business a couple towns away from where I live in Pennsylvania. My older son and I took one of my dogs there and after we were there a little while the husband came into the shop. He must have seen my Obama bumper sticker because he started talking politics almost as soon as he came in. He was that saying McCain was a right-wing nutjob that was too close to Bu$h and his wife (who really runs the place) kept agreeing with him and adding her opinions. They both said they were conservatives that had always voted repub, but that there was nothing conservative about this administration. They even mentioned Obama's newest ad (the energy ad). They were both excited about voting for Obama and pissed at McCain/Bu$h for a number of reasons, but the Iraq war and the economy was what seemed to come up the most in the conversation. Just thought I'd pass it along...

[madura]

1. thanks, been hearing a lot of posts like these on the internets

there is no way McCain is tied with Obama - the media is just covering for a steal so it must appear 'close' , but they won't be able to do it this time.

NOT THIS TIME!

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Always happy read about these kinds of experiences.

[AtomicKitten]

3. Excellent! Thanks for posting this most up-lifting vignette!

[nevergiveup]

4. My Republican doctor

told me this week he would be voting for "Barack". He said it was time for a major shake-up in Washington and although he didn't agree with Obama on everything he certainly trusted him to be honest and straight with the American people. I was impressed.

[smoogatz]

5. Our very Republican cleaning lady

woman in her early 50s, never voted for a Democrat in her life? Says things are so messed up right now she's voting not just for Obama but for the Democratic straight ticket. Said she can't believe how badly Bush and the Republicans have screwed everything up, and she's embarrassed she ever voted for him (twice).

[K8-EEE]

6. My 82 y/o GOP Mom-in-Law in Buffalo NY

Voting for OBAMA!

[elocs]

7. Maybe the Republican Obama supporters will cancel out the Democratic pouters.

Or like Clinton supporter who claim they will vote for McCain (that still sounds like an urban myth to me if I hope to have any faith in a Democrat's common sense).

[harun]

12. They will and then some (n/t)

[LiberalFighter]

8. Apparently at a recent Mayor's Conference

at least two Republican mayors indicated they are going to vote for Obama.

[zulchzulu]

9. Thanks for the report

I too have met many Republicans who are going with Obama... usually they are leaving the GOP as well.

K&R

[applegrove]

10. Happy News indeed!

[Imagevision]

11. They're out there in droves, foreclosures to get worse thru-out the year...

[BlooInBloo]

13. In PA no less - awesome! Hick, or city?

EDIT: Added question.

[JimGinPA]

15. This Was A Pretty Rural Area

[kentuck]

14. I think these "types" of Republicans are Obama's secret weapon.

And there are a lot of them. I would guess that maybe up to 20-25% of all Republicans are terribly disenchanted with Bush and McCain. Either they will vote for Obama or they will sit it out, in my opinion.

[Donkey_Punch_Dubya]

16. They should be, bush and the neocons are not real repubs

Eisenhower was what a GOPer is supposed to be, at it's not that bad. Eisenhower would turn over in his grave to see what republicans have become in the last 25 years. If you believe in limiting spending in government like many repubs, you should be pissed that Bush has spent more than any president in constant dollars by far.

If you believe in balanced budgets like 50s GOPers did, you should be pissed that the biggest deficits have been caused by Reagan, Bush I and Bush II.

If you were a southerner in the 50s and 60s and weren't racist, you didn't like the Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats, who now are all conservative republicans), you may have been a republican. And you now are repulsed by the racist, xenophobic, ignorant conservative repukes.

These are the kinds of "republicans" that might vote for Obama, and these are arguments I'm using to get moderate GOPers who are disenchanted by 8 years of Dubya but have negative, wrong ideas about what Democrats, Obama and liberals believe in.

It even helps in this specific case to say that some liberals think Obama is too centrist, so he isn't some "super leftist, socialist" that conservatives are trying to paint him as. We need these people, as well as many other groups of people, to win the election.