Trouble is brewing amongst the long-time Democratic faithful; those working class elderly voters in the South and Midwest who grew up during the Great Depression and drifted into the Democratic camp because of the New Deal promises of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. People who, like my parents, have never voted for a Republican candidate for president. Never. For a variety of reasons, they are not going to vote for Obama. I've talked to a number of them over the last few weeks, and that decision to abandon the Democrats, at least as far as the Presidential election is concerned, has been unanimous.
The reasons include, but are not limited to, the following: Obama's liberal policies (higher taxes, gun control, etc.); disgust with his choice of friends; distrust of his religious affiliations, i.e. the belief that he is a closet muslim; anger that he refuses to honor his country and flag during the national anthem; and, for some, racism.
The diatribes by the Reverend Wright and Reverend Pfleger have caused more damage to Obama's support in this demographic group that the national media is willing to admit. These voters don't believe Obama when he says that he did not know about Wright's radical racist and political views. In that, and on other issues, they don't trust Obama as far as they can throw him.
While I can only speak about the views of people who run in my, admittedly, small circle....I feel that this is a trend that is widespread....in the South and large portions of the Midwest.
This is going to come as a nasty shock to those running the DNC....but they have nobody to blame but themselves. With each presidential election that rolls around, it seems that the candidates that they nominate to run are even more liberal than the ones they chose to run in the last election.
They're going to fall on their own sword.
