I am so sad right now. I need to vent and them take a break for a while.

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63. better save some of those bombs

for Eli to throw.

So you admit it is about the money too.

On that we are agreed.

What about abortion? Do some people vote Republican because of abortion?

Well, I used to think so. Then I ran for County Treasurer. Even though abortion was NOT at all an issue in the Treasurer's race, most Republicans voted for my opponent. Same thing for the Sherrif and the DA. We all got shellacked by about the same margin.

So part of the vote seemed to depend on "which team am I on?" Especially in a Presidential year. In 2002 and 2006 though, a majority in the county voted for our Democratic Governor (now Secretary of HHS) They also voted for Republican-turned-Democrat Paul Morrison over anti-abortion fanatic Phill Kline, as did most of the rest of the Republican state.

Still, a whole bunch of them voted FOR the anti-abortion fanatic.

Some of the switching seems to have happened, as well, because the media predicted victories for Sebelius and Morrison and some people may have just gone with the crowd.

When I studied precinct results, I was happy to see that people were not strict about voting party line, at least not all of them. In Marmaton precinct in Allen County, for example. In the Kansas House race, 122 voted for the Democrat Dunbar versus 256 for the Republican Otto. Whereas 165 voted for the Democrat Boyda versus 217 for the Republican Jenkins. In 2006 that was even more pronounced with 147 voting for Boyda versus 139 for Ryun while 171 voted for Otto and 123 voted for Shirley. In other places, like Iola ward 4, Shirley got 227 votes to Boyda's 212.

Who knows, maybe Shirley knocked on some doors in Ward 4 and convinced some of those conservative people to vote for him/her.

I must admit that I am more interested in winning people over to our side than I am at throwing R-bombs at them.