McSame voters terrify me, and even other voters scare me...

[texpatriot2004]

I was in the car a few minutes ago listening to the radio. They were interviewing American voters. One "student" says he "is for small government so he is supporting McCain." WTF? McSame is * (or worse, if you can imagine) and this is the biggest government I have seen in my lifetime and it is incompetent as well. So, next person, a female who says she usually votes for Democrats states that she "really likes Palin." Some male they interviewed next says he "wishes Palin was running for President." What a horrid thought!

Here in NM (a very conservative county full of Halliburton employees and other oil and gas people) the number of McSame signs scares me. How on earth can these people support him and that liar of a sidekick he chose for VP? Do they vote Republican because they put party ahead of country? Do they think these people are REAL Republicans and not NEOCONS? What the hell can they be thinking? Is it about skin color?
* and McSame are NOT fiscally conservative (obviously) nor are they for small government. Many of my co-workers are "Republicans" so they think. I have always been of the opinion if you work for a living you have no business voting Republican because they are not looking out for you. More than one of my co-workers has said to me in the past year or so that they think * "is doing a great job" and they credit him with the fact that we have not had "another attack" since 9/11. Someone I work with who considers herself Republican recently said she "doesn't like McCain but she doesn't like Obama either because there is just something about him." How can you be of that opinion with McSame and liar Palin as your alternative. She said she isn't happy with either one and she doesn't like the choices this year. Also she said she really wishes Mitt Romney had been chosen instead of McCain. SCARY!

I don't think the election is as close as they media is trying to make it out to be but these people are terrifying!

[quiet.american]

1. I hear you. There was a recent study that found giving these folks facts makes them twice as dumb.

How do you fight that?

[texpatriot2004]

2. I know. How do you fight that? Facts don't seem to phase them.

Why mess up perfectly good fiction with the facts eh?

[DesertFlower]

3. they scare the hell out of me.

they don't really research the candidates. they see a few ads and make their decision.

[texpatriot2004]

5. There is that, but I think it is something more than that too. They

seem to be stuck on this idea, "I'm a Republican, so I will only vote for the Republican." I have become a straight Dem voter because of * but I used to be more about the person running, regardless of party. Hell I used to respect McSame before he sold out to BushCO. It seems there is something more to this for "Republicans" they add a piety, a moral superiority, not to mention a sheer stupidity to their voting. They remind me of the Pharisees and those that are so blind because they will not see.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. They are deluded

They believe every lie they hear on Faux News, and I bet they won't listen to anything else.

I used to have a boss who told me Obama was a Muslim and was sworn in on the Qur'an. I told him no, and was ready to show him proof--and he refused. "My preacher and Glenn Beck told me, and they know more than you." He didn't want to know the truth. Neither do the folks you are around.

But cheer up! Not everyone is deluded! My 90 year old Republican mother is voting Obama and tells the others in her assisted living facility they should too.

[texpatriot2004]

6. My co-worker that was for Romney said the same thing to me

about the Qur'an. I told her that it wasn't true. I said I thought there was a Senator or Congressman that was sworn in on the Qur'an but it wasn't Obama. I told her he wasn't Muslim. She didn't believe me either.

I am glad, very glad, that the Dems seem to be registering more voters, especially young voters so that cheers me up.

[dana_b]

7. maybe this will cheer you up??

I know we shouldn't even look at the polls yet, but as of September 16th:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/nm/new_mexico_mccain_vs_obama-448.html#polls
Polling Data
Poll Date Sample Obama (D) McCain (R) Spread
RCP Average 09/08 - 09/16 -- 49.3 45.0 Obama +4.3
SurveyUSA 09/14 - 09/16 671 LV 52 44 Obama +8
National Journal/FD 09/11 - 09/15 400 RV 49 42 Obama +7
Rasmussen 09/08 - 09/08 700 LV 47 49 McCain +2

It's going to come down to the Latino voters and they are going for Obama!!

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/new_mexico/
Obama in New Mexico: No Latino voter left behind
In the most closely contested state in the nation, it will all come down to who is better organized -- and whether Obama can get Hispanic voters to the polls.

By Mike Madden

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Sen. Barack Obama waves to supporters after a rally in Española, N.M., Sept. 18, 2008.

Sept. 19, 2008 | ESPANOLA, N.M. -- For a few hours Thursday, Barack Obama doubled the size of this town. About 9,500 people live here, in the heart of Hispanic northern New Mexico; around midday, about 9,500 people were crammed into a historic plaza near the Rio Grande for a rally, according to campaign aides and local officials. And if Obama's strategy to win the White House through the West is going to work, his supporters are going to have to get used to pulling off that kind of turnout. It looks like New Mexico -- and its five electoral votes -- are going to go to whichever side does a better job organizing.

No state has seen presidential elections as consistently close as New Mexico the past two cycles -- Al Gore won it by 366 votes in 2000, and George W. Bush took it back by 5,988 votes four years later, the margin still less than 1 percent of the total vote. Now Obama leads John McCain in most recent polls by a few points, but Democrats and Republicans alike say they think the final margin could be as tight as it has been in the past. Both campaigns are advertising heavily here; the Wisconsin Advertising Project estimated McCain spent $214,000 on TV in New Mexico the week after his convention, Sept. 6 to 13, while Obama spent $155,000 in the same time period. But with fewer than 3 million residents, grass-roots organizing might make more of a difference.

[texpatriot2004]

8. Si Se Puede! Viva Obama. nm