Voting for the candidate is the ideal, but perhaps you are not aware of how polarized American politics is, at least on the national level.
I read, just today, that 82% of Republicans approve of the job President Bush is doing, while only 12% of Democrats do.
That's quite a divide.
And the greatest division is on the war in Iraq. Democrats want to cut-and-run, Republicans want to stay until the job is finished, and a slim majority of Independents side with the Republicans on this issue.
Thus, I take it in stride when Democrats insult me for wanting to stay in Iraq until the job is done. It's a polarizing issue, and on an unmoderated thread, insults are par for the course.
But as for voting for "the candidate," lucky for me the Ds are not running anybody I care to vote for, although I did vote D for governor last year, which is all about local politics, nothing to do with war and other national issues. |
