Middle-aged white guys tired of hearing how middle-aged white guys are all for Romney -- Check In!!

[Bucky]

(anger optional)

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	I'm a MAWG and I'm for Obama
	47 (90%)
	I'm not a MAWG, but I think MAWGs for Obama are sexy
	3 (6%)
	I'm not a MAWG, and you're really not all that sexy, Bucky, but thanks for posting anyway.
	2 (4%)
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[Bucky]

1. Oops, forgot to check in on my own check in.

Checking in. Option One, please.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. I'm a 20-something white guy, so, I'm still claimed as an Obama supporter!

SUCK ON THAT YOU OLD WHITE MALES!

[Bucky]

3. Um, the point of this thread is that all old white guys are NOT for Romney

Oy, the kids these days.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. PSH!

You're old!

[Bucky]

58. :'o(

[PowerToThePeople]

4. Damn, did I just call myself MA'ged?

those f$&king years under shrub and gang were years robbed from my life...

[iemitsu]

6. Its difficult to believe that one's vote is anonymous

when the results look like this.
Plus posting on this thread suggests one is no longer in the youth category.
I'm just here to observe.

[hootinholler]

56. What really makes it difficult to believe one's vote is anonymous

Is the "show usernames" link at the bottom of the poll.

[iemitsu]

60. yeah, I hadn't even noticed that.

[appleannie1]

7. My 76 yr old hubby is all for Obama. Can I vote for him?

[calimary]

13. I was gonna ask that myself. My husband is 63.

He yells at the TV sometimes - when someone on there states that older white males prefer wrongney.

[Retrograde]

24. Mine's only 60

and was raised in Mississippi and Alabama, but voted for Obama twice. As did a 66-year old friend of ours. So that's two more MAWGs for Obama.

[DeschutesRiver]

53. Mine is 59 and he gets ticked off about this and so do I

I heard the PEW poll guy say that if Romney were to win it would be because he gets ALL the white vote and ALL the vote of those more educated.

Yet here are white old us, with advanced degrees, who also *gasp* live in the boonies, who have already turned in our ballots for Obama.
I wonder how many others who voted Obama are out here, pretty much keeping our mouths shut amidst the stupid Romney loud mouthed voters who only look to cause you trouble if you vote otherwise. Small towns are like little bitty fishbowls.

While we don't run into a ton of fellow Obama voters willing to admit to it in nearby areas, remember that "all" the white people here that do plan to vote Romney and trash talk Obama amount to very few people overall. Our county sent out maybe around 12,000 ballots, so while many of our neighbors rant a lot about taking their country back, their numbers are all sound and fury, signifying nothing much at all as the saying goes.

They aren't even spit in a bucket, more like spit in the ocean really.

I also don't believe the cat crap about women voters, apparently of any color, going for Romney.

[Still Sensible]

8. Just hard to deal with the fact

that there seem to be so many insecure, low information, batshit middle aged white guys!

[appleannie1]

9. Apparently middle age white men are damn stupid and will buy snake oil if served right.

[aletier_v]

11. True. I bought apple pie tonight from an awesome Canadian bartender

with gorgeous blue eyes that
stared at me with a Ryan-esque
intensity

[TexasTowelie]

10. I'm 47, paler than cream cheese and have

balls that Romney can suck.

Figuratively, not literally.

[DonRedwood]

59. We might be cousins because I'm creamier than even creamcheese!

Though, I'm not letting romney anywhere near my junk.

[BlueMan Votes]

12. is 51 middle-aged?

I'm 6 months older than Obama.

and twice as white.
except for that sliver of cherokee in my veins.

[Bucky]

15. If my 49 counts, your 51 goddamn better

But now that you mention "sliver of Cherokee", I guess genetically speaking more DUers are white than generally admit too it, if only by a sliver.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I refuse to age gracefully

But more than that, ive never voted for a republican and never will.

Cheking in.

[Tabasco_Dave]

16. I'm a 45 year old white guy and i'm voting for Obama

I kept my magic power!

[SomethingFishy]

52. One of the best songs ever written by

one of the most underrated bands in history... Easily the most underrated singer in Rock And Roll...



A 49 year old white guy

[regnaD kciN]

17. I'm not only a MAWG, but a Christian MAWG...

...and have been backing Democrats my entire life, despite some people believing that's impossible.

[Spirochete]

18. Middle aged white guy here

and already voted for Obama.

[Matariki]

19. lol

I'm really looking forward to the day when a person's ethnicity, age and gender is a complete and total non-issue. Although I probably won't be alive when that happens...

[dimbear]

20. I can still remember having once been middle aged and I'm voting Obama.

Close enough?

[Lakerstan]

21. 42 year old honky checking in...

Proudly liberal and voted for Obama AGAIN!

[Behind the Aegis]

22. I am gay, Jewish, and 1/8 Native American, but I am 43...does that count as MAWG?

ETA: I already voted for Obama.

[bullwinkle428]

43. You don't look Native-American to me.

Sincerely,

Scott Brown

[DefenseLawyer]

23. Middle aged white guy from indiana, where rape is a gift from god

And I support the President

[rppper]

25. 45, welsh irish and mom was a member of the DAR......

i've been a democrat since reagan tried to make ketchup a vegetable....

[DerelictDeminGA]

26. Yep

In the shadow of Stone Mt. GA. King of the Hill is what I am. I live at the top of a hill, and have the only Obama yard sign on my street. There are seven R/R signs on the descent.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

27. Voting for my MAWG hubby who is

soundly snoring next to me because he says Obama has this and I need to relax and quit buying
into all the bullshit. He works in media and knows a thing or two about about a thing or two.

[allrevvedup]

30. +1

Thanks, that's music to my ears. I can't get 2004 off my mind and every encouraging word helps...

[stumblnrose]

28. How Old Is Middle Aged Now

I'm 57 and my live-in dad is 90 and we have already mailed in our ballots for the Big O.

[RBInMaine]

29. Had a 60-something construction worker acquaintance over the other night. He is for OBAMA.

[Jay1972]

31. 58yo MAWG here

I've voted Democratic since I was 18 in 1972 and voted for George McGovern. I can remember thinking how are we going to get through 4 more years of Nixon when he won. Fortunately it was less than 2 after Watergate.

[louis c]

32. Just turned 60. I think you'd call me white

there was a time when my Italian fore-bearers weren't considered "white".

We were the minorities that didn't speak English and worked for lower wages.

I try to tell my cousins that. I remember my late Grand Mother who couldn't speak a lick of English, but was a loving, devoted Italian Immigrant. All my cousins (I have, literally, 100) would, at different times in our lives, spend Sundays with her and my Grand Father. There were always about 20 to 30 kids in and out of the house, around the yard and at my Aunts' and Uncles' houses, all in the same suburban Boston neighborhood.

Now, these grown cousins or their kids say stupid things like, "if THEY (the new immigrants) don't want to learn English, they should send them back where they came from." My big mouthed, liberal response is always the same, "Good thing some asshole didn't say that about Nana when we were growing up, you'd probably had knocked him on his ass. " Boy, do they shut up quick.

I found this to be a nice way of calling someone an asshole, without them wanting to punch me.

[a la izquierda]

33. 38 cannot be middle aged...

But if it is, my husband, whose past-white paternal family has been here since 1640s, is supporting the president.

[trof]

34. Other: I'm an OLD white guy and I'll vote for Obama...AGAIN!

[union_maid]

35. Checking in for husband

He is just on the far side of middle-aged, as am I. We both turn 63 next month. He's as white as they come, with a German, Scots, Irish heritage. And he's always been all Dem all the time and is all in for Obama.

[DiverDave]

36. I'm for the President

but I wish he would just fucking LAY OFF the pot users, dammit.

[HappyMe]

37. I'm married to a sexy mawg,

he's all for Obama.

[Kingofalldems]

38. How about Old White Guy for Obama?

Over 60.

[Trailrider1951]

39. I'm a soon to be 61 year old white

woman, and I have never voted for any republican for president. My first vote went to George McGovern. My last vote, a week and a half ago, went to our President Obama. And I think MAWGs who are Democrats, ARE SEXY!!

[Arkana]

40. I'm a late-20s white guy, and I'm really tired of hearing about how

this is the age where I should stop being a Democrat and start voting Republican because "reality will catch up to me".

[Sivart]

41. If 41 one is middle aged

If 41 one is middle aged then count me in.

[jillan]

42. Middle aged (and then some) White WOMAN checking in for support of MAWGs for Obama!!

[hogwyld]

44. MAWG from Oregon

We get about 6 months of sun. I'm so white, I'm damn near transluscent! Voted for the current and future president!

[FSogol]

45. NPR must have gotten a lot of complaints, because, now they add "non-college educated" to the MAWG

tag in their reporting.

[lumberjack_jeff]

49. Well then here's a vote for Obama from a NCEMAWG. n/t

[nickinSTL]

46. Could we define middle-aged?

I'm a white guy, definitely NOT for Romney...

I'm less than a month from 40, but not sure if that qualifies me as middle-aged yet, or not...realistically, when you look at life expectancy, it should.

[slackmaster]

47. I'm tired of ALL gratuitous references to race and age and gender

[Bucky]

48. +3

[Bake]

50. While I prefer "distinguished looking white guy," I'm checking in! Voting for the PRESIDENT!!

And hey, I've EARNED these gray hairs!! All of 'em!!

Bake

[Viking12]

51. 46-year old irish-german white guy for Obama!

Prototypical middle-aged suburban dad-guy.

[dmallind]

54. Finally - a thread where I can explain a pet peeve with minimum offense

I'm an archetypal MAWG. Fat, fairly well-off, of outwardly orthodox appearance and behavior, gun-owner and a suburbanite to boot. If people had to identify the very core GOP voter type, it would be me. I only miss being a cliche because I'm not religious. People on DU describing Tea Party buffoons and GOP morons (but I repeat myself) might as well have my picture in mind, because they pretty much use my description as a RW caricature.

But you know what? That's NOT my pet peeve!

It bothers me far more when people believe a true generalization is a specific and pesonal insult, take deep offense at it, and try to refute it with examples of the opposite.

It's bogus. No OP I'm not I hope picking on you. This is a good spot to make the point though because few people do get upset about the middle-aged white guy image, and even fewer are listened to if they do.

MAWGS *ARE* for Romney. Hugely. Fuck it, ONLY white guys are for Romney as a demographic. It doesn't mean we ALL are. Nobody rational has ever made that as a serious claim, and it can be immediately slapped down by looking at a picture of the US Congress Democratic Caucus - massively MAWG dominated. When people say "middle aged white guys support Romney" they just mean most of them do; that the group if it alone voted (which of course used to be the case) would elect him resoundingly. This is irrefutable and absolute fact.

Other things fall into the same category. Texas is more evangelical and right wing than the country as a whole. It doesn't mean there aren't plenty of lefty atheists there - they are just outnumbered, so Texas as a whole can be said to suffer from excessive theocratic wingnuttery with perfect truth.

Men do commit more spousal abuse than women. Doesn't mean all men do, or even most men do. Just more than women do (even though that's not even close to zero either - easy to piss off gender-partisans either way with the facts).

Christians do oppose gay rights and choice. Not all Christians obviously - but the first sentence carries that implication only in the minds of those insecurely seeking perennial poutrage. Most Christians do oppose them therefore the group called Christians opposes them.

And so it is with people who look and live like me. They do support Romney - overwhelmingly. Probably to a greater degree than any of the examples above. Just because there are millions of us in that demographic who can't stand the fucker doesn't do squat to change the absolute undeniable fact that our demographic loves him.

What we have to do is realize and accept that when people say Texans are Baptist crazies or men are wifebeaters or Christians are homophobic mysogynists or yes when they say middle aged white guys are for Romney they are talking about the relative and generic attributes of the group, not every single fucking one of that group as individuals.

[hootinholler]

55. This MAWG is BUFF

That's a Big Ugly Fat Fucker.

[Aristus]

57. Sick and f*****G TIRED of it!

I'm a MAWG, and I would never in a million years vote for Rmoney!

Because I'm a smart MAWG!

And to all the people who voted that MAWGs for Obama are sexy: and

[hifiguy]

61. Yo. Mid-50s prog fan

and die-hard Obama supporter here!

[cherish44]

62. MAWG who vote for Obama are SEXY AS HELL!