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In reply to the discussion: Sanders Signals he's Serious [View all]ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)every day, which I will do until the end of the year because of my work. Many Democrats I talked to voted Republicans for the first time ever, including my next door neighbor who has been a Democrat for 68 years. I voted Democrat simply because that is what I do. I had absolutely no interest in my vote. The biggest issue why people voted Republican has not been mentioned here, and I will not be the first to do so. I personally do not believe there will be another Democratic congress in my lifetime or actually a Democratic President, if you include Hillary Clinton. Iraq was the US's Parthia, and Obama just did what he was told to do by the War Machine moneyed Fascists. As far as "would I be more or less like to vote for John McCain if you knew he had fathered a black child" being used as a voting strategy? You may be right, but my mind would never consider anything so trite with respect to voting. My mind asks before I enter the voting booth "Has the Party I am about to vote for gone against my core beliefs that made me fight to protect them in a war long ago?" I don't care if McCain screwed a beaver in the Crystal Cathedral. I have missed one presidential call since Ike. I presume that accuracy rating will continue for the last pick.