By Matthias H. K.
The third of November
After we had finished with the door-hangers we got a new assignment, one vitally different from what we’d been doing yesterday and today. We got the opportunity to go out into a neighborhood that had been classified as a swing “hood”. Meaning there’d be bound to be McCain supporters lurking about. Who’d be able to refuse this chance? I hadn’t gotten one good discussion going with one of the opposite opinion, and the few I had found wouldn’t say why. With all haste we took off. And oh boy was there McCain voters out there. Just walking around the streets it felt like there was a bad aura in the air, similar to that of someone walking on your grave. Only, now it was a river-dance of grave step dancing. This could just be my mind playing a trick on me, since I was expecting a McCain territory. To be honest, it wasn’t as bad as all that when we got started. Certainly there were McCain voters, but there were equally many if not more Obama voters. However, I noticed some shared traits among the supposed McCain voters:
The first is mainly due to the guilt they felt for voting McCain. Why would they feel guilt? I believe it to be because of the racial factor involved. Some people cannot get out of the mentality that they’re superior to blacks, or because of the prejudice they’ve been taught from their parents. It’s sad really, but it’d take some major psychological work to change their mind. That’d take time, time we didn’t have.
The vicious dog seems to be a proven fact, for me. McCain voters had vicious dogs, and let them do the talking. Obama voters had more cuddly dogs, despite their size. It’s true what they say; the dogs are very sensitive of their owners’ attitudes towards people. The Obama people were very friendly towards us, and so were their dogs, whereas the McCain dogs were frenzied.
We met one person who did want to argue, but everything he said was being shot right back at him by Shadi and me. He said George Bush had done a lot of good work despite the bad credit. The fact of the matter was just that George Bush was a complete retard. He started wars, it took a week for him to help the victims of Katrina and could ultimately be said to be responsible for this deep financial crisis the American people are experiencing right now. But, despite our best efforts, he wouldn’t convert. He was stubbornly set on McCain. The most puzzling fact here was that he looked like an east-Indian doctor.
The third of November
After we had finished with the door-hangers we got a new assignment, one vitally different from what we’d been doing yesterday and today. We got the opportunity to go out into a neighborhood that had been classified as a swing “hood”. Meaning there’d be bound to be McCain supporters lurking about. Who’d be able to refuse this chance? I hadn’t gotten one good discussion going with one of the opposite opinion, and the few I had found wouldn’t say why. With all haste we took off. And oh boy was there McCain voters out there. Just walking around the streets it felt like there was a bad aura in the air, similar to that of someone walking on your grave. Only, now it was a river-dance of grave step dancing. This could just be my mind playing a trick on me, since I was expecting a McCain territory. To be honest, it wasn’t as bad as all that when we got started. Certainly there were McCain voters, but there were equally many if not more Obama voters. However, I noticed some shared traits among the supposed McCain voters:
- They wouldn’t say who they were voting for.
- They had vicious dogs, for which some had electric collars.
- Those who did want to argue; didn’t have any good points that couldn’t be shot down immediately.
The first is mainly due to the guilt they felt for voting McCain. Why would they feel guilt? I believe it to be because of the racial factor involved. Some people cannot get out of the mentality that they’re superior to blacks, or because of the prejudice they’ve been taught from their parents. It’s sad really, but it’d take some major psychological work to change their mind. That’d take time, time we didn’t have.
The vicious dog seems to be a proven fact, for me. McCain voters had vicious dogs, and let them do the talking. Obama voters had more cuddly dogs, despite their size. It’s true what they say; the dogs are very sensitive of their owners’ attitudes towards people. The Obama people were very friendly towards us, and so were their dogs, whereas the McCain dogs were frenzied.
We met one person who did want to argue, but everything he said was being shot right back at him by Shadi and me. He said George Bush had done a lot of good work despite the bad credit. The fact of the matter was just that George Bush was a complete retard. He started wars, it took a week for him to help the victims of Katrina and could ultimately be said to be responsible for this deep financial crisis the American people are experiencing right now. But, despite our best efforts, he wouldn’t convert. He was stubbornly set on McCain. The most puzzling fact here was that he looked like an east-Indian doctor.
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