Since most of us have talked to extended family members during the turkey day celebrations, did anyone encounter any relatives who were previously disinterested in politics or current events, but suddenly became very interested in voting for Obama?
I spoke with my cousin, and she was upset that I didn't vote for Obama so I asked her why didn't she want to vote for Romney, and she just replied "I just didn't like him (Romney)," without offering any specifics about why Romney was "bad" and Obama was "good for the country." Now this girl has no interest in current events or politics and is in her late 20's. I've tried to talk to her about current events or politics in the past, and she has no knowledge or interest in reading a daily newspaper. She's a graduate art student, so that is her sphere of knowledge.
Obama won because he succeeded in "Turning out uneducated first-time voters who were young and/or minorities." His campaign staff, made it important to "vote" even if that voter had a very limited education of political policies or issues. While I support every American's right to vote, I would rather Americans have an educated voter turnout.
I feel that Obama's reliance on "First time voters" does a disservice to the election process if those "first time voters" are uneducated about political issues, but are voting specifically for Obama based on "pop-media societal peer pressure for a cult of personality." They vote for Obama because he is "handsome and has a warm personality for cultural acceptance."
I don't think any other Politician now or in the future can inspire such political participation from the uneducated masses. Obama is a "massive media celebrity" that likely will never be duplicated. No other politicians in the past: Reagan, Carter, Clinton, or Dubya have ever inspired "first time voters" to "go out and vote."
Has anyone else encountered Ditzy Uneducated Obama or Romney voters that vote based on personality or superficial reasons?
Oh give me a break. Do you know how many people didn't vote for Obama simply because he is black?
They never say that of course, but there are apparently many euphemisms for black.
I was watching a Romney rally in Ohio and someone when asked why he won't vote for Obama he said: I see a lot of socialism. I bet if they asked him what socialism he would have no clue.
Another woman said he's an atheist, muslim who used to go to Rev. Wright's church. When the reporter asked her which one of the 3 is he, she said "All 3!"
And lets not even go into Bill O'Reilly's traditional values. So I'm sorry but ignorance is a bad thing but if anything Obama didn't benefit from it, he suffered from it.
There are far more non-whites and young people that voted for Obama specifically because he was "Black" or "Biracial" and represented "a multi-cultural american hero" than those who voted against him specifically because he was "black"
If a white Democrat like John Kerry had the same platform and said the same things as Obama, he would lose.
So you're really convinced that there is is this unending line of voters who supported Obama because his racial background made them feel all warm and fuzzy inside? You're wrong, but far be it from me to burst your bubble of denial.
Obama won because he got minority voters excited enough to turnout and win the election. IF these minority voters never showed up, he would have lost to Romney. He got 99% of Black voters to turn out for him. He got far more Hispanic voters to turn out for him. It wasn't just becuase of his "immigration policies," a lot of it had to do with his racial background and who he was as a person, versus the lilly-white Romney who didn't know any minorities.
Yes, if Democratic voters didn't turn out, Democrats wouldn't have won.
If blacks voted for Obama at the same rate they voted for Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Dukakis, etc. etc., Romney still loses. The problem is Romney did lousy among Latinos compared to W., and just cratered among Asians overall. Losing young white voters didn't help either.
