re: #182 JacksonTn

This is why I questions why Powell voted Obama …

if my family who have been dems forever … mainly center right dems … could not bring ourselves to vote for Obama because he represented imo the far far left wing of the party … how could Powell who has identified with republicans most of the time … suddenly vote for someone who is so far left?

It’s easy for me to understand because my family, all life long Republicans, voted for Obama too. For them, Palin getting the VP slot was too much. McCain was already a pretty weak candidate, he ran a terrible campaign and had lousy message delivery. There were a lot of high profile defections this past election and a lot of people wrote articles about it.
I think the reason why so many people are having trouble understanding this is because they don’t believe the explanations they are given because it doesn’t match with their ideology. The reasons are easy to uncover but people are having a hard time accepting them.