"I'm afraid I wasn't realistic," Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.
"I really thought there would be immediate change," she said. "Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it's politics as usual, and that's what I voted against."
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"All my Republican friends — and independents — are sitting back saying, 'Oh, what did we do?" Ms. McAreavy said. "I'm not to that point yet, but a lot of people are."
My immediate reaction was, "Lady, the twenty-somethings have an excuse for being taken in, but you are old enough to have known better. Obama is a flim-flam artist, plain and simple. By next year, you too will say so. Your friends are just ahead of you on that path."
For this article to appear in the NYT, there must be a huge amount of buyer's remorse out there. |
