I couldn't vote in '08 but my lifelong Republican voting parents could. They voted for Obama. The race thing wasn't something they really cared about but it was an added bonus. Their main attraction to him is that he wasn't McCain. We were going through an economic crisis and it seemed like all McCain wanted to talk about was our military and the war in Iraq. People wanted something different and Obama ran a great campaign, posing himself as something new.
Of course, my parents deeply regretted their decision within 1 year, but that doesn't matter.
Isn't it wild how McCain, Paul Ryan, and Romney all came out to be RINOS... I legit don't even know what to think about it. I remember hearing about Ryan a lot as an Ohioan and his tax plans etc but the dude fucked the first 2 years of Trumps presidency in the house.
I couldn't vote in '08 but my lifelong Republican voting parents could. They voted for Obama. The race thing wasn't something they really cared about but it was an added bonus. Their main attraction to him is that he wasn't McCain. We were going through an economic crisis and it seemed like all McCain wanted to talk about was our military and the war in Iraq. People wanted something different and Obama ran a great campaign, posing himself as something new.
Of course, my parents deeply regretted their decision within 1 year, but that doesn't matter.
Isn't it wild how McCain, Paul Ryan, and Romney all came out to be RINOS... I legit don't even know what to think about it. I remember hearing about Ryan a lot as an Ohioan and his tax plans etc but the dude fucked the first 2 years of Trumps presidency in the house.