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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]09:23 thank you for the most honest and candid answer so far.

09:11 Some of your answers seemed genuine, but for the most part, you did exactly what I was referring to.  Instead of answering the specific questions, you twisted your answers so that you can just spew Obama hatred.  Why is that?

I know I sound smug, but I sincerely do not feel that way.  John Kerry is the candidate I was referring to in my original post.  I was not excited about him at all.  but i also didn't resort to lies and disrespectful statements about Bush.  I wasn't excited about Gore either.  I am a big fan of his, but felt Al gore should keep doing what Al Gore does best.  Which is what he ended up doing and Inconvenient Truth came out.

My motivation is not to change anyone's views.  I'm simply wondering what is really going through the minds of republicans.  Again today, I get on FB.  At this point, the posts are about 80% political.  All of the Obama supporters posted something that states their enthusiasm for Obama - not their hatred for Romney.  But every single post from a R/R supporter was anti-Obama.  NONE of it was about R/R.  Not one post.  And all of the anti-Obama stuff was completely untrue, and can easily be debunked.

I'm curious to see if anyone will really answer my questions, or if there will be more like 09:11 that just use it as another forum to bash Obama.

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I don't think you're going to get any good answers, nor do I think you sound smug. From all the polls I've read, and barring any shenanigans (voter suppression, etc) from the republicans I think Obama actually will win in November, too. There are good people who vote repub. Their reasons aren't very good and usually comes from a place of ignorance (i.e., "we live paycheck to paycheck, so I'm going to vote for fiscal responsibility and Romney!" when it's been proven over and over that without some more substance, r/r's financial suggestions are just voodoo), but they've got to be feeling stung. If they're at all moderate but like voting the way their parents did, for example, where are they going to go? Romney was not even remotely the best option - how loud are people going to be in defense of someone they only kind of sort of a little bit like?

There's a sea change coming and even for people who don't like to admit that white privilege exists, it's pretty apparent that that's not going to be the rule going forward. It's got to be frightening to rely on a framework you can't admit the existence of that will cease to exist in twenty years' time. I say this as a very liberal white woman.[/quote]

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