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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (91597)	10/23/2008 6:56:19 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541598

I would think that might be true, except for the extreme and balanced division in the country these past years. It isn't easy to get a confirmed lifelong Rep to jump ship, regardless of their feelings about Bush. My perennial example, mominlaw, saw Bush as terrible but an anomaly. She hoped that the party she has spent her life supporting would return. It hasn't. Palin upset her. McCain upset her. Her own son whom she respects more than anyone else in the world was for Obama, and Colin Powell finished it off. But it was a hard decision for her. Many won't make the intellectual effort she made during this internal debate. Easier to just stay the course one is used to. ANd of course Obama hasn't been the perfect candidate. He's upset people with his associations, his liberal connections and votes, his minister, he wasn't Hillary, and oh, by the way, he's black. :)