OK so after voting, we went out for breakfast, in my fairly Republican district

[gollygee]

our district isn't purely or even vastly Republican, but it generally sways right.

So we went out for breakfast after voting, and there were these four old men sitting in the booth behind us. They looked like farmer types, and a lot of farmers eat at this breakfast place.

First, they were talking about how they're all voting for Obama! Which amazed me as I thought senior citizen men were least likely to vote for Obama, and particularly in my district, and particularly farmers in my district. But they said they were tired of Bush, and they didn't want more of the same.

Then, they were talking about Proposal 1, which is for medical marijuana, and they were all voting yes on that. "I don't like the idea of people telling cancer patients that they can't use something that might help them."

[MJkcj]

1. reading posts like this make me so happy

Things are changing. thank goodness

[madokie]

2. A sign of the times

If I'm fortunate to live a few more years I will die being very happy about the direction my country is going in again.

[for-q-bush]

3. that's nice.

[Anna Lee]

4. I wish that were my story.

So I go vote this morning and am about 25th in line. Voting was in a Lutheran Church, everybody in a good mood, church giving out free coffee and donut holes. We then went to breakfast and the couple in the next booth smiled and commented when they saw our I voted stickers. After we sat down the conversation started in the next booth and heated up as they discussed every urban legend and scare tactic as though each was the absolute truth. I watched as they went from the friendly face we saw as we arrived to the angry faces that I think must be their lives. We couldn't help laughing about them though. They sounded more dead than alive.

[gollygee]

5. That's too bad

there's always that 25% or so who will believe whatever Rush et al tell them.

[lunatica]

6. And then you woke up and realized you were dreaming right?

Seriously though. That's a cool story

[gollygee]

8. I never expect anyone to be a Democrat here

I moved here from the neighboring town, and historically this is a white-flight area - not so much anymore, it's much more diverse, but that's the history. So the town where I grew up was the Democratic town, and this was the Republican town. We moved here because we're within bike distance from my husband's work now.

So when I do run into Democrats, I'm always amazed, but it isn't uncommon. There are a lot of Obama signs out so that's a good sign.

[riderinthestorm]

7. Farmers in general would LOVE to be able to legally grow marijuana (hemp)

It's a bottom line, economic issue primarily for a farmer but as the positive uses of cannabis become more widely known, more pressure to legalize marijuana will come from the ag community imho.

I live in Denny Hastert's old district now - lots of farmers as well and a Dem beat the Rethug candidate last time around (yes Oberweis is/was a deeply flawed candidate and easy to beat but still I think farmers as a whole are getting smarter about voting and not just going knee-jerk Rethug anymore).

[gollygee]

9. Oh - I didn't know that about farmers but that makes sense

it would be good for them. Maybe that's helping to move their voting habits left, eh?

[peanut2010]

10. I don`t understand why a farmer would be repuke

After all wasn`t it Ronnie Raygun behind all the farm foreclosures in the 80`s just so developers could get the land and build more malls.Repugs are also the ones behind discrediting bio-diesel and ethanol?

[gollygee]

11. I don't understand why a lot of Republicans vote that way

but around here, if you go out into farming country, it's mostly very conservative. A lot of it is the "gods guns and gays" thing.