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Originally Posted by Medusa
Romney is Utah's Golden Boy even though he's not actually from here. I'm sure there are plenty of Utahns shedding a tear because he's dropping out. Salt Lake City excluded, the only regional observation I can make here is (as a poster on my local paper's forum so eloquently put it) a flaming bag of dog poo would beat Jesus Himself as long as said poo had an "R" next to its name on the ballot.
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You know, my Utahn (though Episcopal) father--who has only ever in his life voted non-republican when he voted for Ross Perot--is passionately for Obama. He's sick and tired of what the GOP is putting up these days, and he's flat done with Bush. I suspect that there's a strong insurgency of non-righty and moderate-righty Utahns there. That was always my experience growing up there. Now, they're VASTLY outnumbered...
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Originally Posted by Medusa
Ratbastid...when I lived in NC, the racism was rampant. Granted, I worked (but didn't live) in a rural area and that may have had something to do with it. I wonder what my old friends think of Obama.
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Well, to be fair, I'm in the third largest urban center in the state. As many states demonstrated on Stupor Tuesday, Obama wins urban counties while Clinton wins rural. What race has to do with that, I can only speculate.
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Originally Posted by Elphaba
It sounds better than "my wife and children refuse to give up the rest of the personal fortune?" 
He did need to give some reason for stepping down, and the "fear" tactic has worked so well in the past during elections. I agree with you that he did a poor job of it. |
Guy was a joke from the get-go. I don't see why he would stop being a joke in his drop-out speech.