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In reply to the discussion: Can someone please explain to me why the Republican Party still enjoys [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)What I mean is, urban, suburban, or rural?
We tend to suppose that most people in the country are like the people who are around us. My bet is that you live in either a progressive city, or perhaps an enlightened suburb. Most people who are conservative, and know they're out of the mainstream are not going to trumpet it, because it just brings about arguments and hurt feelings. If you lived in a small town far away from an Interstate, would you perhaps feel some reluctance to say something good about what the President's done?
But, we're all alone in the voting booth, and we expect our ballot to be secret, so while we may not have bumper stickers and yard signs proclaiming our political preferences to the world, we still get to excercise our choices silently but sometimes effectively.
I've lived in big cities, and way out in the sticks, and right now, I'm in a suburb that generally always votes Democratic. But we swapped House Representatives last year, and the GOP candidate is the son of a Republican candidate who managed to win an election as county executive, and his are the only signs I've seen up around town for the last few weeks or so. He's exploiting the Jewish vote, especially dragging in the whole Obama vs. Netanyahu thing, and I think he's got a shot at taking the seat.