You are so right!! But if you are a Democrat, it's perfectly fine to be racist.

In 2006? Now that's planning ahead--Obama wasn't even elected President until near the end of 2008...

@Greg.... your comment "Jason does not seem to mind the big, old, crusty, white noses in his vagina." seriously made me laugh dude.... that was classic. lol

Actually, it seems that there were 6.6 million fewer White voters this year as compared to the 2008 elections. I'm thinking that a lot of those 'old white guys' didn't vote for Obama--they just didn't vote...

Entirely possible. I know last go round my dad's walking buddies at the mall and others he knew were pretty much biting the bullet and voting for Obama out of fear. Since I no longer have any contact with that crowd, you could definitely be right about that.

Bob, Do you think Romney would have won if he offered free college education?

Unfortunately, anytime you offer something free you increase your chances. Had he done that though, I'm sure Obama would have one-upped him with free college AND a Chevy Volt or some such. He didn't stick his front feet into GM for nothing...

looks like alot more red than blue

There are only so many "Archie Bunkers" left in this country - those older bigots who tend to vote for regressive social issues...

As expected you are truly a piece of work. If you claim to be "A liberal living in suburbia." Jason, you are as YOU describe "those older bigots who tend to vote for regressive social issues"

By a LARGE majority, women across the country voted in favor of Obama and against old (mostly) rich white dudes in Washington sticking their noses in their vaginas. Sad thing is, if the GOP would have dropped their regressive social views and stuck to fiscal matters, they could have pulled this one out.

The GOP claims to believe in small, unobtrusive government, but yet they want to tell us who we can marry and how we can procreate and stick themselves between us and our doctors and make them perform unnecessary, invasive procedures just to shame pregnant women...

If you and your wife want to pop out a kid every 10 months or continue to use the old "pull & pray" method of birth control fine, but we choose to have a little more control of how many offspring we have by utilizing science.

@JB Schmidt..... I was thinking about that too.... as Veterans Day approaches I can only think of those young men who died in battle and lost the opportunity to become Old and Crusty while fighting for this country.

To all the Vets, young AND old, black AND white, gay AND straight, rich AND poor, abled AND disabled, alive AND especially those who have passed..... I thank you for your service to our country.

@ Jason
He won the single dependent women and government employed woman vote and lost the self sustaining married women vote. The women who must live by a budget that they earn disagree with your gender baiting and course language.

Or Jason, rather then spending time blogging you work an additional 1hr a week and bring home enough money to buy a back of condoms. Unfortunately, you would rather repay the service of our vets by expecting the country they fought for to cover the cost of your care free sex.

Excellent, then the country is yours. The layoffs, tax hikes, continuous 8%+ unemployment and lowered condition of healthcare are now owned solely by the Democrats. No more blaming Bush. Its is time for you to accept what happens next is the liberal dream.

The Personhood Amendment, which is written so as to potentially outlaw hormonal contraceptives and the IUD. That's how.

Who will win the race... to the bottom?

The only people who ever think of race and never shut up about it are wanna-be's like you. Your party realized racism didn't work anymore in the 60's, and your kind must have felt out of place, and started accusing US of it. lol

How ignorant the left can be.

Excuse me. WWI =Woodrow Wilson, WWII=FDR. Vietnam =LBJ (with his Gulf of Tonkin), Kosovo= Clinton. In the future, pls read up on your US military history before embarrassing yourself with such outlandish claims. A little homework would keep you from looking so foolish.

Don, I think you could have pretty much said the same thing in one sentence.

In times of economic instability like we're experiencing now, people who might vote otherwise will tend to vote for the safety net.

It's an understandable, if not completely rational, decision.

And heeeere's Mini-Me again!

@JRH -- At least both Lyle and Jason have comments enabled on their pieces. I wish everybody had the courage to do that.

@Randy1949 -

Is there any blog in particular that you're referring to with such a statement?

Hoffa has always had comments enabled on all of his movie related blogs.

I was going to say this one: http://brookfield-wi.patch.com/blog_posts/im-sorry-so-sorry

It had been up since yesterday, with no ability to post. She seems to have fixed it now. I'm sure it was just an oversight.

There are more differences between urban and rural dwellers than those you point out. Rural dwellers tend to have less contact with persons who are different, tend to have a lower education level, a lower income level. There are other differences as well, but those I mention could be used to explain political differences as well.

Re. the growth of U.S. economy, it might be pointed out that the U.S. is bordered by two significantly weaker nations and two oceans. It has one of the largest areas of arable land, significant water ways, mineral and petroleum resources.

It also has a profound mythos of the individual who "goes it alone", is "his own man", etc. manifest in our heroes and in our strong entrepreneurial ethos and widespread optimism.

IOW, the factors you site for both your points might well be relevant, but to make a case that they are primary cause would really difficult without begging the question.

Don, I'm sure we could complicate the argument with several more variables, but I would still simply postulate that rural lifestyles have necesssitated that individuals be more self-reliant and this facilitates a conservative outlook. We find less educated low-income people in both rural and urban settings. They tend to vote differently.

Ref growth of the US economy, the US began as a colony of a single European nation, avoided major conflicts with its neighbors, and fought only one civil war. Europe also possesses significant arable land, navigable waterways, and resources, which they have frequently fought over. Given plate tectonics, these two land masses which were once joined ought to be fairly similar.

The US enjoyed the advantage of hybridization early on that brought a variety of peoples, skills, and ideas to its shores. Most of these early immigrants sought opportunity and lived in rural areas where their contributions flourished in an environment that necessitated strong individuals, families, and small communities. Today the hybridization process is called globalization as it affects most continents worldwide through the fast movement of people, ideas, goods, and services across borders. Although we have some resistance to immigration and intermingling here, it pales to what goes on in Europe or East Asia. This US advantage is not by chance, but by political design. US farmers worked their own lands while European elites repeatedly waged war on each other.