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I was feeling a little depressed and alienated this morning, wondering if all my Indiana relatives are resentful of my interest in the election. Then I called my Grandma. Holy crap! If Indiana goes Democrat this year, you have my Grandma Veva to thank for it. “George Bush has RUINED THIS COUNTRY over the past 8 years,” she told me. “I wouldn’t vote for John McCain if he was all there was!” We talked about how she’d been a big Hilary supporter and she was disappointed that Hilary didn’t get the VP nod, but the fact that HRC was campaigning for Obama convinced her to get behind him. We talked about how if he did win, the Republicans would probably try to get votes invalidated. (“Dirty tricks!” she called it.) We talked about people we knew who’d been swayed by emails calling Obama the Antichrist. (She tells them that if it’s God’s will that Obama gets elected, “nothing can stop it!” I thought that was neat way of turning the evangelical argument on its head.)
Anyway, yeah, you may well be tired of hearing me bang on this particular drum. I’d ask you to please just respect that some of us are genuinely optimistic about this election, and we genuinely believe we stand at a huge crossroads. After eight years of feeling let down by the electorate, I actually feel hopeful. And if you feel like my posting about Obama is somehow a personal attack on you, well, I’d suggest you just take this site off your bookmarks for the next couple of weeks. I’ll understand.
I’m just happy to be reminded that I’m not an outlier, that my liberalism and passion do run in the family. I come by it honest.
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That’s the thing about politics, you can’t please everyone…
But I for one love checking in to see what random US election stuff you have found on the web.
My mother recently commented that my Republican grandmother would be ‘hemmorhaging green paint’ if she could see what was happening in the US today. I like to think even she would have voted Obama. (Hey, now *there’s* a catchy badge: Dead white women for Obama.)
Since the Republican party has pretty much shoved out everyone who’s not an evangelical Christian, they have only themselves to blame.
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Do keep it up – I think your input is interesting, you’re getting (mostly) the same news as me, but your looking at it from “outside”. It will be hard to avoid the election for the next couple of weeks!
Did you see that the Anchorage Daily News is endorsing Obama? There’s a little love sent your way 😉
No way! I suppose what with Stevens getting convicted, most Alaskans are probably trying to distance themselves from conservatives at this point.
Yay for political optimism! It’s been so long since we’ve had the opportunity, we may as well indulge.
Kevin, Obama’s just had his biggest “get” yet. I got an email this morning from my Grandpa saying that he’d teased me long enough (sending me joke forwards) and that he’d always intended voting for Obama.
My head just about exploded… but in a good way! Polls still have Indiana going Republican, but at least I feel better knowing that some of the people I love and respect are with me on this.
Oh man! I totally forgot! Grandpa lives just over the state line… IN OHIO. 🙂