| | | LOL! Many former Obama supporters hate him now, but they would never in a million years vote for anyone but a Democrat.
I may have told this story before, but years ago, I worked with a couple of guys from New England. I'm originally from the South. Anyway, we hit it off well as friends, and, in fact, they could have been my brothers, with virtually identical worldviews.
We never discussed politics, but we came to know a great deal about each others worldviews. No surprisingly, it turned out that I shared about 99.9% of their worldviews. One day, the subject of politics was broached. I was stunned to learn that both were registered Democrats! These were two guys who strongly favored the U.S. Constitution, opposed gay marriage, opposed recreational drug use, opposed affirmative action, favored tough crime laws, opposed illegal immigration, and even acknowledged that the United States was a much better nation when it was over 90% White.
When I found out that they were registered Democrats and would be voting for Clinton again, I was dumbfounded. They even acknowledged that they held with none of Clintons' liberal views and acknowledged that he was a leftist. It turned out that they, like many in new England, had strong family ties to unions, who absolutely despise the GOP. Despise is not a strong enough word.
I'll go one better... There was a story back in 2008 out of Pennsylvania. A company was taking a poll in towns, and going door-to-door. A man's wife answered the door and the surveyor asked her if she would answer a few questions. The husband, incidentally, was in a union. When the subject of who the household members intended to vote for came up, the wife called to her husband in another room and yelled, "Who are we voting for?? A terse, deep-voiced reply from the adjacent room was, "We're voting for the n----r!"
That story was related by one of the pollsters. It was not a joke. Unions trump all, even when the members obviously don't like their marching orders.
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