Voters (Heart) Obama, But Think Like McCain

Re-think the "POW" pass for McCain

John and Cindy McCain OWE society far more for the alcoholism, drunk driver crashes, DWI incarcerations, domestic abuse cases, teen drinking binges and unwed pregnancies (or abortions) from their billions of beers distributed over the last 25 years than we owe him (them) for his unfortunate experience as a Vietnam POW.

Hensley & Company of Phoenix (Cindy's inherited beer company) sold about $170,000,000.00 worth of beer last year alone. McCain has been married to the business for 25 years. Find a statistician. Ask him or her to extrapolate for you the social costs involved with this. It will be a mind-boggling number. No other conclusion is possible.

And this author thinks most voters "think like" McCain. Well, we don't. Some of us would rather die than willfully tempt others with alcoholic destruction. And some of us would just about rather die than contemplate Cindy Hensley McCain prancing around the country disgracing us all as "First Lady." Where the heck are the church voters when we need them? Where? Lulled to sleep by the church organ? Skipping services to more conveniently watch the NFL? C'mon, social conservatives! You KNOW God is not calling you to vote for the beer sloshers.

Sandra of TN

If you vote for Mccain and allow a 3rd Bush term.

1. Allow for the supreme court to have a 7-2 majority.

Possibility of overturning a woman's right to chose.

2. Allow for 4 more years of Iraq war.

3. Allow the debt to balloon. So it harder to control

4. Allow for us to continue and neglect education, healthcare, infrastructure, alternative fuels.

ect.

You are only hurting the country and yourself.

I think the title is silly

I think the article tries to paint the younger generation as a group of emotional teenie boppers not thinking, while the older people who went along with the 8 years of Bush policies as logica thinkers, when its probably the reverse. Reality doesn't agree with the theme or title of this article.The real issue is how will the older generation get past their ingrained prejudices (whether in their heart or mind) to think logically about who to vote for.

Niether heart nor head

Neither my heart nor head can fathom four more years of shoveling borrowed money into the military industrial complex to continue and cause more war and carnage like Mr. McCain is proposing. If your head leads you to conclude that such tired and damaging policies should be continued, maybe it's time to have your head checked.

Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran---not!

SCOTT FROM TENNESSEE OBAMA WILL NEVER TAKE THIS STATE

If you think Obama will win in Tennessee then you need to wake up. Hillary would have taken Tennessee but Obama will never.

With the support of Hillary's women who have been totally dismissed by the democratic party McCain will win this state.

You can thank Donna Brazile for this because she seems to think the democratic party does not need us. Well, we don't need them any longer.

I have a McCain sign in my car waiting for the day Obama declares the nomination and it will go up and this is the first time in my life I will vote republican.

You can say all you want about McCain but actually, the republicans did themselves a favor nominating him. If it were anyone else we would probably stay home but we can do as his mother said and hold our noses and vote for him.

The democrats don't want our female blue collar (white but then I am not suppose to say white any longer in this country) vote so you young people build the party along with Moveon.org and Soros.

We will not come together after the nomination. I would rather go through 4 years of McCain than 4 years of Obama and his friends from Chicago.

So, Scott, guess you need to go help your buddies in another state because we Women Hillbillies like the Obama supporters like to call us will use our vote in November to elect John McCain for President.

I agree, this is fluff.

Typical leap of logic extrapolated into a fantastic conclusion that makes a pleading headline for the ways that are past and are not coming back. Your time is over, Cold Warriors. Your grandchildren, born after Jim Crow and the Red Hoax, have come of age in numbers the nation has never before seen, and they are unconcerned with prejudices of the past. The children Dr. King spoke of are here, they outnumber the boomers, and they are going to drag this country into the 21st century; they ARE the 21st century in America. They will take it from here. Free at last.

Wrong Survey

Clearly, there is no such thing as a liberal or conservative position that is universally defined. What there is is a "religion" about these two words that were created by the "con"servative side of politics in America. I dare say this "con" will not work anymore. The voting will be for Obama and it will be on the real issues. Is bush a conservative? Ha, he is a neo con what ever that is - and he totally emptied the piggy bank..... For a foolish enterprise - war in Iraq.

Obama is going to bring back morals, unity, common sense and intelligence in America and to a larger extent than anytime in the recent past, to politics too. He will also be promoting American security and safety in the world in a much smarter and nimble way. Call that whatever you like, Americans are too smart to vote for the alternatives....

center-right?

In what universe? Take a look at politicalcompass.org > US Primaries 2008. These guys are only center-right in comparison to left-right politicians.

methodology

I'm not sure that I understand the methodology here. I'd have to check to see if another article does a better job of describing them. Voters were asked to place themselves on the scale, and both of the candidates? They're just reporting averages here, but how many of the voters considered themselves to be closer to McCain, and how many considered themselves to be closer to Obama? You can't infer that from averages at all. It would be interesting to see how many voters consider themselves ideologically "closer" to one candidate, but still prefer the other. The results given above, however, tell us very little.

Are you kidding me?

With the way the word "liberal" has been demonized over the past 2 decades, it would be amazing to get any voters to say they see themselves as anything less than a 5 on this scale.

The conclusions cited in this article don't match any issue based polling I've seen. As far as I know, Americans want out of Iraq, want nothing to do with a war in Iran, appreciate the need for universal health care, they understand that wealthy individuals and big corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes, etc.

The most stiking thing here is that people tink McCain is a centrist of any kind. He votes with Bush 90% of the time. I expect the public will begin to see McCain in a different light once the general election gets underway and the Obama campaign plays an enless loop of McCain talking about how the american people "aren't concerned if we stay in Iraq for 100 years."