We are just back from the polling booth at the local middle school having cast our vote for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
We hope you’ll consider voting for Obama because he’s the better candidate in this crucial election.
John McCain and his fellow Republicans represent more of the same nonsense we’ve endured for the last eight years.
The Republican Party is the party of Plutocrats (very wealthy people) and does not represent the interests of ordinary people.
George W.Bush and his cronies have demonstrated the immense destruction that Republicans can do to this nation. America cannot afford any more damage.
A vote for Barack Obama is perhaps our last chance to fix many of the serious problems this nation now faces.
Please consider voting for Barack Obama and the Democratic ticket in your city or state.
Jai America.
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If the Republican party is the Party of the Plutocrats, why do are the majority of rich Hollywood personalities supporting Obama?
This happens every election. The Democratic candidates claim that they are going to help poor people and minorities live better, but only wind up exploiting them for their vote. Once they get elected, they turn around and ignore the poor people and minorities they claimed they were campaigning for and instead go back to backslapping with their Hollywood friends.
If you look at voting maps, the traditionally wealthy white collar areas of the country (New York, Massachusetts and the rest of New England, California) vote Democrat. The poor and blue collar areas of the country, (such as Alabama, Mississippi, other parts of the South and Midwest) traditionally vote Republican. Other factors such as religion also play a part, specifically with Christians in the South voting conservative and Jews in New York and California voting liberal.
If the election was about poor vs. rich people with the Republicans helping the rich, the voting maps would be completely reversed.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. It’s true that other factors like religion and race play a big part in the political process including in voting behavior.
2. You write above: If the Republican party is the Party of the Plutocrats, why do are the majority of rich Hollywood personalities supporting Obama?
Various reasons – Hollywood’s Value System/cultural values (on issues like treatment toward gays, alcohol, God, porn, bohemian lifestyle, entertainment and the like) is the antithesis of the Christian Right/Republican Party espoused values, more sensitivity for less fortunate, more unions, stand on environment, herd mentality of stars.
3. You write: The Democratic candidates claim that they are going to help poor people and minorities live better, but only wind up exploiting them for their vote. Once they get elected, they turn around and ignore the poor people and minorities they claimed they were campaigning for and instead go back to backslapping with their Hollywood friends.
Happens often…we saw that when a lot of Democrats voted for the Bankruptcy Bill although several studies have proved that healthcare disaster is the single biggest factor leading to bankruptcy.
4. If you look at voting maps, the traditionally wealthy white collar areas of the country (New York, Massachusetts and the rest of New England, California) vote Democrat. The poor and blue collar areas of the country, (such as Alabama, Mississippi, other parts of the South and Midwest) traditionally vote Republican
Why – Low voting of Blacks in those areas, voter suppression, Black apathy, Black prison population…but the trend might change in this election in the above areas because of outreach by Obama campaign, grassroots efforts, Obama’s presence on the ticket as first African-American (only partially true) as the candidate of a national party like Democrats has galvanized interest…
5. Most compelling argument – A Democratic administration would never pass the kind of tax policies that favor the rich like George W. Bush did, try to gut Social Security, mess up Medicare (e.g. the prescription drug bill involving private insurance cos) and greater cosiness of Republicans with corporate lobbyists as seen in decades of much higher donations to Republicans.
We are following the results very keenly here. 95% of all the people in the UAE are keeping a very high hope on OBAMA.
What is really happening over their? We don’t trust the US media even for a penny. So, what we’re seeing in the TVs cannot be the real scene. How people have voted? and what is the mood right now?
Is there any bleak chance of that fossil creature Mc Cain coming to power? we despise that eventuality.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Historic day or rather night here…
Please see…
Obama Wins; Outsourcing to India Screwed?
Interestingly all the red(neck?) states are contiguous.. Is the redness contagious or what! NM, CO and NV have broken the contiguity a bit.. This election easily beats all the other elections (India and US put together) put together in getting MY attention.. Too many exotic factors going on this time.. historic indeed.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: Is the redness contagious or what!
Funny.