Yep, that is the heartland. Of course they cherry pick their sound bites to bash conservatives as a whole, but hey that's CNN. King County is actually on of the least populated counties in the country having 286 people. 2nd least in Texas (besides Loving County at a whopping 82 people) and 3rd least in the nation. There's a ton of VERY conservative counties like this in the western heartland stretching from Nebraska to Texas. Democratic voters tend to be packed in and concentrated into urban areas, whereas republican voters tend to be all around but exist the most in rural areas of the country.
I really don't think they were trying to bash those people in the story. if they wanted to make them look really dumb the reporter could have asked them to back up their claims about Obama with evidence.
I don't think it was too bad (like MSNBC bad), but come on, you don't think the guy with messed up teeth thinking Obama is a Muslim and the lady saying "I just don't believe anything he says" in response to the reporter saying "Why don't you believe that" isn't bashing old white rural typical conservative rednecks? You may not see it but I see it clearly.
I didn't call them rednecks, you did.
I really don't think the guy was looking for a certain type of person to interview, those are just the types of people who live in King County. Did you think he was going to find a political science professor or a wall street financier out there? This was a typical "man on the street" type interview where you ask normal people about their opinions. And since King County is far removed from any big city, major university or cultural mecca, these are the types of people you'll find there- largely white, conservative lower income and under educated.
