re: #346 sagehen

In 2014, Alison Lundergan Grimes ran against him and lost by a lot. She probably would have lost anyway, but it sure didn’t help that she wouldn’t say whether or not she’d voted for Obama.

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A lot of that happened with Democratic candidates it seems, trying to straddle the fence or snag conservative voters. And a lot of them were crushed for waffling.

Pretty much everyone in my town either asked or already knew I’d voted for President Obama. I wasn’t going to run away from that; I thought he was the best choice for the job.