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margotb822 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:18 PM
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Poll question: Are you Pro-Obama or Anti-McCain?
As this GE campaign rolls on, I find myself really hating John McCain. I mean, he really makes me angry and sick. Not that my support for Obama is a given because it hasn't always been. However, I know I'm going to support the Democratic candidate, so I find myself dedicating more time and effort to speak out against McCain. I cannot understand why people continue to support McCain. I really feel that it's our job to get the truth about McCain out there.

I'm tending to see people fall into two camps generally: Pro-Obama or Anti-McCain. Which are you?
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:19 PM
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1. You missed one....
Both
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margotb822 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:22 PM
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3. I purposely omitted Both
I figured most people are both, but I wanted people to choose which feeling is stronger for them.
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Labors of Hercules Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:20 PM
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2. Who in their right mind would not be pro-Obama at this point?
If you aren't, then noone but Jesus descending into the White House would please you.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:26 PM
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6. I'll be pleased when McCain isn't in the White House.
No Jesus descending necessary. :hi:
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:47 PM
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18. Jesus ain't all that.
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blueatheart Donating Member (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:51 PM
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21. glad your here to decide...
who is out of their minds. Someone does not agree with you they must be crazy. Jesus would not please everyone by descending into the whitehouse btw.
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jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-08 12:05 AM
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34. Jesus in the white house would upset the
right wing most of all. He is big on making sure the young, the elderly and the sick are all cared for. He is for Peace, not judging or stoning one another, compassion, forgiveness. He never says a thing about gays and the only people he really bashes are the pharisee types for things like hypocrisy, praying for show, taking advantage of people,devouring the homes of widows, putting on a show of good outside but being greedy and corrupt inside...all of their favorite things He keeps saying woe unto thee hypocrites, calls them names of all sorts...
But when it comes to the common person, the common sinner, the not well to do, the drinker...his words are not harsh.
They just wouldn't like him.

They like his dad.
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:24 PM
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4. Pro-Obama, but growing more anti-McCain with every passing day
I try not to hate anyone, but McCain is behaving about as poorly as I've seen any party's Presidential nominee behave in all my years.

That he still is even in the running, in the polls today, either means that Americans are more idiotic than I'd realized, or that maybe they're just not really paying attention yet.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:24 PM
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5. PrObama! n/t
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cbc5g Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:27 PM
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7. I bet the Pro-Kerry anti-Bush poll results in 2004 would have been vastly different than this one
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Blondiegrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:50 PM
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20. Yeah. I was very, very, very anti-Bush.
Kerry was "eh," but still a much wiser choice than Chimpy McFlightsuit.

(I was a Howard Dean girl.)
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cbc5g Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:52 PM
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22. Same, I was way more anti-Bush than pro-Kerry...but i felt for him when the swiftboat ads started
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Blondiegrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:58 PM
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23. Those swiftboat ads were despicable. n/t
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:01 PM
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24. I was somewhere in between
I wouldn't say I had to hold my nose to vote for Kerry, but I wasn't overly excited about him either. I actually thought he'd make a great president, but he just wasn't that appealing and didn't inspire me that much. I was a Deaniac in the primaries, so that probably made it a little harder to get excited about Kerry (although I think I could have gotten excited about HIllary this year if she had won, if only because she is a woman). Ironically, I like Kerry a lot better now than I did when I voted for him. If he had fought as hard for himself as he has for Obama he might be president right now.
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Blondiegrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:04 PM
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25. Interesting point.
If he had fought as hard for himself as he has for Obama he might be president right now.

I agree. At least Kerry has learned from his mistakes, which is more than I can say for a lot of Repukes.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:28 PM
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8. Hard to say cause I like Obama very much. But I am very much against
the GOP winning the presidency again so I had to go with being anti McCain.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:28 PM
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9. It's hard to be more anti-McCain than I am
But I'm liking Obama more and more. That speech in Germany showed that he has the right touch to make people like America again.
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elkston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:28 PM
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10. I don't dislike McCain.
I respect his military service and his genuine efforts at bipartisanship in the past.

But Obama is just a better candidate and what this country needs right now & in the future.

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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:28 PM
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11. PROBAMA!!
Yes we FUCKING can!! :bounce: :kick: :woohoo:

But I'm also anti McLoon..... the man has lost his fucking mind.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:29 PM
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12. Both at this point
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adoraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:32 PM
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13. Pro Obama since day 1.
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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:36 PM
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14. Yes. NT
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:38 PM
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15. Both.
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snowbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:41 PM
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16. This poll stinks if you don't put a selection for BOTH
Although it's too late to change it now...

Next time .. remember -- add a "both" or "other" option.


You -----> Two minutes!
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:43 PM
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17. I used to just be anti-McCain, but I have forgiven Obama for defeating...
.... Dennis Kucinich.

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Blondiegrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 10:48 PM
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19. Pro-Obama. n/t
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:17 PM
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26. Scared of McCain. What if he gets…
…angry?

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:


I am a
Gore
Kucinich
Edwards

Obama
supporter.

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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:38 PM
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27. Yes. (n/t)
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:40 PM
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28. Incredibly PRO Obama.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:43 PM
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29. Supreme Court makes me anti-GOP because it outlasts any admin. nt
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:44 PM
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30. Anti-McCain. n/t
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World Citizen Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:48 PM
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31. McCain is a puppet that dances at the end of...
corporate strings. His personal qualities are meaningless. Don't be confused about defining and identifying the enemy.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:51 PM
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32. I AM pro Obama, but I'm also anti McNuts! You CAN be both!
I know what you're asking. For a long time many people voted against someone, especially Shrub! But I really am voting for Barack because I desperately want someone as our President who can think, speak in real sentences, make friends with people instead of enemies, and try to do the best for the American people. I'm also voting against McNuts becasue I believe he WOULD be a continuation of Shrub's ideas, and I think that would completely destroy our country.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 11:53 PM
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33. I LOVE Obama and HATE McCain.
I would say the feelings are pretty much proportional--the more I love Obama, the more I hate McCain.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-08 07:34 AM
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35. Anti-any-Republican.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-08 08:48 AM
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36. A little of both.
When my first choice (Kucinich) failed to get the nomination, I was anybody-but-the-republican nominee.

I feel, at this point, I was more excited in 2004. Maybe it's because of the been-there, done-that thing. It's also because, I feel, this campaign season seems to be never-ending.

I just want Obama to win, and to see some results from him and the Democrats in Congress. It's been a bit disappointing since the DEMS took over after the 2006 mid-terms, and I want to see some results rather than words, speeches and promises. Hopefully with a DEM president and increased majorities in Congress we can finally get something done.

Obama, like Kerry, wasn't my first choice so, right now, I am pro the DEM candidate and anti the republican one equally.
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TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-08 08:53 AM
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37. Pro-Obama, I wavered a bit when he started pandering to the right,
but I am now firmly convinced he is the president we need right now. How could someone not be anti-McCain would be my response to the poll!
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Bettie Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-08 08:54 AM
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38. Pro-Obama
Because we need to move forward, not backward.
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