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Originally Posted by spunkywho
In Oregon and Washington it's all Obama. In both states he drew record crowds at speeches and, like Kathleen, I hardly see any McCain stickers.
In Alaska it is much more McCain, but I don't see much support either way actually. But I am only in the city of Anchorage, not the rural areas.
I do think that America is indeed ready for a black president - more so than for a woman president. If he loses the election, I don't think it is because of the color of his skin, but because people are stupid and too easily flattered by McCains 'rar rar US rar rar we are great rar rar family values rar rar US is the best' talks. Whereas Obama makes people think a bit more and doesn't tend to state the obvious.
Ok, here is my favorite about McCain: He voted against greater availability of college education for military personnel. The reason he gave - and he was VERY proud of his analysis and the crowd roared - was that to have an effective military, we need to retain our personnel. If we give them options, such as education - they will leave the military!!!!
Insanity! The crowd gobbled it up and was smitten cause it is so pro-american. While Obama voted for more options and college education for the men and women who served in active duty. Somehow that is not american.
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You know, I'm glad we are seeing things on the same page.
On the issue of race, it's going to be there, always. In this case though, all I hear is the fact that he won't win because he's black. Give me a ****ing break. The people that say that don't realize that he's HALF-WHITE!!! Stubborn people in Southern state can't see that so the deep south is all about McCain. Like Kathleen said, she says a lot of Obama where she lives. The north is quite liberal for the most part so I'm not surprised there. If he is going to win, which I think he will... He needs to concentrate on the swing states. More so, the states that CAN go his way. Colorado, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and they are saying Ohio maybe. Colorado has been a state that has gone either or as of late. New Mexico can go for Obama because of the support of Bill Richardson. Pennsylvania and Ohio have the opportunity because of blue-collar workers. It's going to be interesting to see if Obama can really reach out to those people, and if those people can look past him being HALF-BLACK. If anyone listened to Bill Richardson speak at the DNC, he had one of the cheesiest lines that I thought it was hilarious though. "John McCain can spend hundreds of dollars on his shoes, but we're the ones that are going to have to pay for his flip-flops." I know that has nothing to do with what I just said, but man... I laughed so hard.
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