Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
I just don't get it. Even knowing the stupidity of a large segment of the American public I just don't get how Obama's not up twenty points. Look at what's going on in this country for fuck's sake You just have to laugh about it I guess. I was talking to a friend and he was blaming it on the fact that Obama's run a stupid campaign -which I do tend to agree with it but anyway- but that's not the point. Obama should be up twenty points even if he exiled himself to Siberia and ran his campaign by sending a letter once a month written in crayons with exclamation points and horrible spelling.

There's just no excuse for being a republican anymore, sorry, you're on the wrong side.
It is insane, but I would imagine that a significant portion of the US populace is politically illiterate. Quite the same in other countries too but seemingly not so pronounced. The UK has the Tories thumping Labour in the polls at the moment, and though no Tory myself, I can see how and why things are that way. There is a sense of something logical happening. When it comes to American politics it just befuddles me how it can be such a close run thing especially after the two terms of Bush. How could anyone want to perpetuate that? Perhaps its a self denial thing and a case of "I will bat for my team and no other". Perhaps complete ignorance of the issues and the way the US is declining. The US needs change, no doubt about it, and there is a whopping great choice of two.