The New Hampshire exit polls are fascinating. Peruse them here and here. A few points jumped out. There is a Hillary/Obama gender gap. Hillary Clinton, for instance, won 47 percent of the woman vote but just 30 percent of the man vote. Did Miller Lite's Men of the Square Table make a man rule about voting against Hillary? A disproportionate share of the 18-24 vote went to Barack Obama (61 percent) and Ron Paul (19 percent). About a third of Republican voters are regular churchgoers. Less than a fifth of Democrat voters are regular churchgoers. Should Republicans lose in November, they can at least take consolation in the fact that more than eighty percent of their opponents will burn forever in hell (I'm just keeding! I'm just keeding!). McCain, who at times has out-hawked the Bush administration on Iraq, won the antiwar vote overwhelmingly among GOP voters. Similarly, on the Democratic side, voters who want to "withdraw as soon as possible" from Iraq, opted for Hillary Clinton, a candidate who won't even support pulling out the troops from Iraq in the next presidential term. Just a quarter of Democrats in New Hampshire are married with children. Almost two-thirds of New Hampshire Republicans approve of the war in Iraq.
This proves the irrelevancy of the GOP. 2/3 support the Iraq Occupation yet 70% plus of Americans want troops out asap.
It is always nice to be reminded every four years how a tiny number of idiot fellow citizens who are die hard Republicans and Democrats rule the rest of us. Too bad everyone else can't create a third party.
McCain declares we may as well stay in Iraq for 100 years and the people of NH love him for it. It is an immoral idea that one generation can obligate future generations to a futile and bankrupt occupation of another country. I always knew the generation that rules us is the most egotistical and selfish in our history, further proof of it really wasn't necessary. This generation won't even PAY for their stupid f-cking wars.
What amazed and disgusted me is that McCain did as well with Republicans as he did with Independents. I always gave Republicans (who I would surmise are typically conservative) more credit than Independents (who aren't sure what they are) and take this as more proof that the Republican party is heading more to the center and in some cases going left.
McCain is a faux Republican and not particularly conservative. He's a 30 year Beltway insider with a shady past, is for bigger government, more tax dollars, something nicely called 'bipartisanship' but what really is selling out to the Dems (trashing the first Amendment with Feingold and an attempt at illegal amnesty with Kennedy).
Are people paying attention? I think not. Or maybe our country is heading left?
the sad thing is we should probably stay in Iraq.. it will eventually just be a FOB just like Japan and Korea.. But the really sad thing is We (THE U.S.) pay more for our Saudi bases annually then we do for conducting Ops in Iraq and Afghanistan... And look where 11 of your 17 hijakers come from... Its no secret.. Weve been shelling out billions for over 30 years to a country that hates us..
Hell, at least the people want us in Iraq.. They want peace and security.. dont believe what ya read in the news papers...
Semper Fi
Ben
