C-Span Caller Names 3 Categories of McCain Voters

[ThomWV]

The super rich
The super stupid
The super racists

[peekaloo]

1. LOL! Didn't Gramps list "Super Maverick" as one of his options on SNL?

[Nictuku]

2. *snicker*

[malaise]

3. I laughed 'til I nearly choked on my coffee

It was perfect. That was a good call. :hi:

[janedum]

4. So True. I couldn't have said it better! EOM

!!!

[Laelth]

11. Welcome to DU!

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[old mark]

19. Welcome, janedum - have a great election day! nt

[MrsBrady]

5. wow

i've never heard anything pared down that much that was still so accurate

:kick:

[ck4829]

6. This is the kind of person who SHOULD be a pundit on TV

Instead of these airheads we've got.

[Burma Jones]

7. Not Super Rich.........they're big on Obama

Just the merely rich....they're McCain's people......

[Duppers]

14. I highly disagree !

they get the tax breaks and off-shore exemptions from the rethugs.

Fact.

[LSdemocrat]

20. Actually studies show that at net worths of 10 million+ , people get more Democratic

It's the 1 million to 10 million crowd that tends to be hard-core Republican.

[Duppers]

21. wonderful, but how many people are worth $10+ million?

And most folks, including myself, think that if one's net worth is $2+ million that they're wealthy.

How much is Cheney worth? I am Positive that most of the neocons' net worth in this admin is $10+ million.

I've spent some time now trying to research your stat, not that I don't believe you. Do you have any links?


Some what related, have a look at these:

How the wealthy vote depends on where they live
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/20081102_How_the_wealthy_vote_depends_on_where_they_live.html

Republicans: Still Happy Campers
http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/718/republicans-happier

[Duppers]

22. How the wealthy vote depends on where they live

on 2nd thought, I'll just post one of those articles:

How the wealthy vote depends on where they live

If John McCain pulls out a stunning upset Tuesday, he'll have the country club, not Sam's Club, to thank for it. Conversely, if Barack Obama coasts to victory, it likely will be because he was able to persuade wealthier voters to take a chance on his economic vision. That's because while wealthy states remain firmly in the blue column, wealthy voters run deep red, contrary to the conventional wisdom.

In 2000, the poorest voters in Mississippi (50th in the nation in per capita income), Ohio (middle of the pack) and Connecticut (first) were equally likely to vote for George W. Bush. The richest residents of the same three states diverged sharply, with more than three-fourths of wealthy Mississippians voting Republican, 60 percent in Ohio and less than half in Connecticut. This pattern held in 2004.

It turns out the mythical lower-income "Values Voter" who puts "God, guns and gays" before economic concerns is just that. The Republican edge in poorer states has little to do with the cultural concerns of lower-income voters and far more to do with the intensity of GOP support by the wealthy in those states.

In graphical terms, this is represented by a steep incline in the likelihood of voting GOP as you move up the income scale in the classic "red states." Battleground states such as Ohio show a more moderate slope. The urbanized anchors of "blue America" approach a flat line.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/20081102_How_the_wealthy_vote_depends_on_where_they_live.html

The whole article is a fascinating read.

[LisaLynne]

8. Now that's the sort of SUPER majority we can live without.

:P

[jennied]

9. Maybe "The Super Religious" should be a category..

cuz my best friend is voting McCain and I don't think she falls into any of those three category's. She is mormon, and feels like she has to vote for McCain.

[Duppers]

15. TOTALLY AGREE.

And welcome to DU.

You should have been sending your 'best friend' DU posts over the last 5 yrs and she would have changed her mind. There's a wealth of info here.
I've changed 2 repub friends--they were not religious though.

:hi:

[jennied]

24. I've tried changing her mind... she told me not to talk politics with her anymore

because we disagree on so many issues.

[Duppers]

25. as I used to say to one ex-friend and my own mother

"You don't want me to bother you with facts because your mind is made up."

Sorry, jennied. You tried and did what you could.

[codjh9]

10. Hah! Yeah, that's fairly accurate... and there's a lot more of Nos. 2 & 3 than No. 1

[grannylib]

12. *lol* That's about it. I've always said there were only three reasons

people vote rePigliCon: greed, fear and stupidity. Pretty well lines up.

[renate]

13. I have a friend who is SUPER nice who is voting for McCain

I really, really don't like talking politics with friends I disagree with (I won't change their minds any more than they'll change mine), so I have no idea why she's doing this. There's this huge cognitive dissonance, actually, because she is such an exceptionally nice person, and so is her husband who's also voting for McCain. Seriously, I can't imagine any two people I'd rather be stranded on a desert island with.

And yet there is this one rather glaring character flaw. :shrug:

[Duppers]

16. facts and info cannot change their minds?

I cannot have friends I can discuss these things with.

[Duppers]

17. include the "super religious"

as an above poster said, then you'll most likely have the last 3 categories overlapping. :evilgrin:

K & R

[Hubert Flottz]

18. 3 Categories = Neanderfucks...

[agentS]

23. the Amoral Majority

Or the Child that No Child Left Behind

[meow2u3]

26. McLame/Failin voters: the new 3 R's

Rich, racist, or retards. Enough said.