Pointless political observations
For the past 5 days, I’ve been in Austin, TX helping to take care of my mom. Austin, for those who have never been, is about as liberal a town as exists outside CA and the Northeast. Having said that, the neighborhood I grew up in is very white and pretty well off. It is the only part of Austin that has voted reliably Republican for many years, and certainly for Bush. Driving through the neighborhood, there’s a 8:1 ratio of Obama to McCain signs. Even on my mom’s street, which is mostly retired people, there is only one McCain sign.
While I don’t think that this means that everyone feels similarly, or that Obama will win 8:1, it seems to me that it demonstrates a massive enthusiasm gap.
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People are waking up and snapping out of their dazed and confused state they’ve been in for the last 8 years. Hooray!