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Originally Posted by Twodogs
I find the poll results here somewhat interesting. It makes you wonder how he got elected, but I have a theory. The "folks" who voted him in, don't really follow issues or politics, so they wouldn't be on a forum such as this. I think a lot of them (a majority maybe), were simply voting for the cool guy, because voting was cool. I can honestly say that I don't know a single person that follows the news, that voted for Obama. I know several people who did, but they are more the type that watch Southpark or MTV over the news.
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Oh my.....you have just described my sister and for the most part, my parents.
My sister is a pharmacist. We were recently together all week while my Father was having some surgery, so we had MANY hours together to chat. One of the topics that came up was Nationalized Medicine. She is VERY much against it for many reasons. Namely, working as the inpatient pharamacist at a hospital she knows the issues with Medicare and Medicaid and (damnit, now I can't think of the watchdog group for hospitals' standard of care) that are faced every day and with Nationalized Medicine, will likely be similar if not worse. This same well educated girl voted for Barry because all she knew is that she HATED Bush.....nothing more.
She watches no news (owns no television), reads no newspaper and listens to no radio. She gets all her info from her friends and coworkers and forms "their" opinion. She doesn't realize what she voted for and will likely not put two and two together until somebody spells it out for her.....I didn't have the heart to do it myself.